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I agree with you Larry. I do like to enjoy life as well. There are the type of people who are so passionate about their work that they would love to stare at a computer screen 16 hours a day. When I was younger, I had the time to read, grow and get better at my work. Nowadays, I have a fiance and a marriage to plan so hence I have MUCH less time to learn outside the job. However, I still try to sneak in as much as I can in my outside work hours ;)
It's not like Fox. It's pretty objective when it comes to different points of view. It's just not impartial when it comes to national issues.
Are you an AI? Your response is completely generic, taking into account none of the specifics of my argument.
Don't forget Palm too, but they eventually recovered with WebOS, and HP eventually bought them.
I can modify existing content to fit my needs, but drawing stuff from scratch is where it gets complicated for me.
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But MPEGLA goes a step further. They take their specs, for example H264, and then annotate them with patent information. So if you're reading section 2.1.1 of the H264 spec, you can look up and see what claims in which patents apply. That's pretty darn awesome, and some pretty good value add and some nice transparency.

It's a nice way to blend the legal (the patent) with the technical (the spec).
Yes, thanks, that jives with what I've heard also works.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12433045

The BBC's Jon Leyne in Cairo said the announcement caught everyone by surprise, and all over the city drivers honked their horns and people fired guns into the air.

But the army takeover looks very much like a military coup, our correspondent adds.

The constitution has been breached, he says, because officially it should be the speaker of parliament who takes over, not the army leadership.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst. So far the Egyptian military have been on the right side of this situation but we have no guarantees what happens next. This is the end of the beginning, not the end.
Very interesting English Al Jazeera opinion article about vice-president Omar Suleiman, entitled "Suleiman: The CIA's man in Cairo":

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/2011271...
Nokia Windows Phone: Nokia employees walk out
Ninja rockstar awesomeface.
Look for email address in HN profile ;)

Seriously, though, in my case I'm currently a non-dev though I would like to be. I'm a college student (online...) and a freelance writer that does some web dev too. I think remote work has potential, but today most companies only want remote freelancers, not full employees...
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/02/11/exp.gho... this might be more down your alley. A Google marketing exec doing some great marketing... for Facebook.
Huh, makes me wonder if the alternate platforms they are supporting (MeeGo, two Symbians) are just distractions to help satisfy the political situation (legal or otherwise).
Yes please.

I recently discovered that I could create reasonably decent looking UI elements using only layer styles. I assume there are better ways to do it.
I run a b&m store and this is common behavior. A store re-arranges an existing product so that it looks a little different, puts it up as a premium product with a very high price and for limited-time only, then offers that item, and only that item, for a Groupon.
This is common. Sometimes it's done in a way so it doesn't pollute the main brand, sometimes it augments the main brand, usually it's cheaper and the has different margin metrics. A lot of things that Costco sells are like this -- I used to work at an online retailer that also shipped to Costco out of the same warehouse and we had a bunch of one-off brands that sold solely through Costco. You may have seen Converse One Star Chucks at Target. AFAIK, only Target sells the One Stars, it's the Target Converse brand, and they are significantly cheaper than regular Chucks but are almost identical visually. The main Converse brand is the All Star, which is sold through their regular shoe retail channels. They are in some sense competing with themselves on price, but they can still end up with the sale, because some portion of the demographic is more price sensitive than brand sensitive.
I have used it for a team of 10 people (at 2 locations) and it actually reduced some overhead in communication. I had set it up on a desktop machine for about 2 months and only adjustment I needed was to increase heap size for JVM. If you are using git, give it a try. It is dead easy to set up.
I'm really surprised by this mentality, especially evident in the comments, that if you're not spending all of your time outside of work doing projects related to development that you're suddenly a "bad developer." Others have said it but it really bears repeating: at some point even the best developers realize that finishing one extra feature on a side project isn't as important as spending some quality time with your spouse our children.

Moreover, I don't want to be in a situation where my job owns my life. I enjoy software development and I've been doing it now for 14 years. I certainly spend some of my time at home tinkering on personal projects and continuing to learn. But work for me is generally 9-5ish--and by work I mean the job for which I'm paid. Speaking as someone who will be a father in just a couple of weeks, I can say that at 8:00 pm I'd far rather be putting my son in bed than working on anything related to work.

Life is short, and there's more to it than software development. Understanding that doesn't mean you lack passion or aren't good at it--it just means you believe in going beyond one-dimensional.
Egypt's Mubarak steps down
Come on now. Don't be so facetious. What chance do you honestly think a Tea Party rally has of maintaining a top spot on the HN front page? We are talking about historic events here.

(and, no, me checking my email this morning is not also a "historic event" ;)
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Follow up question: who paid for it? (half joking)
Is there a method for delivering "in house" apps? I was under the impression that everything had to go through the public MS store. MS was pretty clear how this was a consumer phone, not aimed at business users, yet.
I don't understand it either, as in why don't most people have any concept of time-off? I guess many Americans depend on 100% of their salary to pay their bills and so can't afford to take any unpaid leave. But why not take sabbaticals if even for coding something interesting to yourself?
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We came to the conclusion that what we are asking should be fun for you to do. Something you might even do without us asking.

... And something that you guys just so happen to benefit from. I understand what you're saying, but it still smacks of exploitation in my opinion.
Thank you for your feedback.
We do support organizations and non-for-profit, I guess we should make it clearer.
Also, the widget is available under each idea if you click on the Share button.
I wish that I could click on the individual smiley faces and find out the facts of the statuses. For some reason it's driving me nuts that I don't know why the frowny faces are unhappy.
Fireworks continues to be underrated...
Just think of Jerry Yang from Yahoo!. How did avoiding a buyout from Microsoft turn out? Yea not so good.

Jerry's heart was in the right place, trying to be a rebel and avoid a big bad company coming in, but he completely ignored the business side. The truth was Yahoo! just had bad management, and it started with him.

But having said that, I hope Elop made the right move by putting all his eggs in one basket because they will be thrown back at his face.
What part of "Apple bought Next" did you not read?
I believe the first query was so slow because when using WHERE / IN - mysql will execute the subquery for each and every row, not do the subquery first as some might expect.
First, it's not exploitation. It can't be. It could only be exploitation if reddit were somehow planning to benefit from their implementations...

Did you miss the part where they're using this as a recruiting screen?
I find that I cannot write code at top quality for more than about 6 hours a day. IMHO, most programmers aren't able to write at their top skill level for more than that, but don't realize this about themselves.

Factoring in time to handle my mails, some meetings, and that 6 hours adds up to a working day. If I program private projects after hours, I get grumpier and less focused. For my own health and sense of accomplishment, I need to stop coding at the end of the working day.

I don't switch off entirely. I do read tech books during my evenings, but that's a non-creative activity, so my coding doesn't suffer from it.
My flow is Balsamiq for rough mocks / usability testing, Fireworks for design comps, and Photoshop only for actual image processing (mainly as a hobby). Balsamiq is awesome once you learn some of the hotkeys, and many of the commands overlap with those provided by Fireworks. The founder of Balsamiq was a Sr. Software Engineer at Adobe, and the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
> You know that feeling when you drive home and don't remember driving home or
> anything along the way? Boom. There you go. Your brain just ignored the trip.

That's your brain entering a sleep state, and it's dangerous. Counter this by constantly sweeping your eyes across the road to stay alert.

I like everything else you wrote, but as a driver, motorcyclist, bicyclist, and pedestrian, I hate to think that people would view "no memory of my commute" as "my brain optimized it!"
Wow they're dumber than I thought then. Or at least they are executing on a plan and think that their employees and investors are dumb.
I hope so. I mean, if finding out my zipcode is a big deal, then all the stuff printed on my driver license must be HUGE.
Nope. Layer styles were pretty much designed for doing exactly that.
Great question Andrew. That's why I think most people underestimate the power of what Dropbox has done, because most don't understand it.

Well, this is what I think happens. For some people, the majority of their files will be unique - but for many people, they won't be. The more people they get using dropbox (with the free account) is the more files they can get, which means the more things they have access to that they can charge for.

In other words, as their network of files grows and their user base grows, their costs shrink and their margins get wider - because the higher the likelihood that they are to be able to charge for files that are already there.

So to put some numbers to it.

Say when they had 100 users, 5% share the same files. That means, essentially they are charging 5 people for access to the same files. However, when they reach 10,000 users more people upload similar files I suspect that 5% increases to say 7%. That means that they can now charge 700 people for access to the same files.

Imagine when they reach 1,000,000 users and 10% have the same files - that's 100,000 users they can charge for access to the same files.

I don't know what the true percentage breakdowns are, but I suspect they will be much higher than many people expect. Double digits.

In any case, even if it is not higher than people expect, network effects work for their model - like nothing I have ever seen before. The more people join, is the more files they have which increases the % of their userbase that they can charge for. So not only is the absolute numbers of users growing, but the portion of the userbase they can charge to the same files are growing too.

It's FRIKKIN BRILLIANT!!!!!
You forgot Montreal! Shame on you! :-P
I learned photoshop before I learned to program, because I was really interested in art when I was young so I wanted to learn how to color my drawings in it after I scanned them in. My interests took a large shift since then, but I still can use it quite well.
Cool fact: Try searching for this in Google:

How do I make X in Photoshop?

X is any physical object you can think of.

This will return relevant results for all valid values of X.

Examples for X:

1) X=Earth: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

2) X=Sand: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

3) X=Monkey: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

4) X=Pyramid: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
Don't take this the wrong way; but a potential short answer is that there is more to life than programming. Or doing a single thing non-stop, for that matter regardless how passionate your are about it. Taking your mind off of it is not necessarily a bad thing - in fact, it might help you acquire a different perspective which ultimately might assist you in becoming a better problem solver in the long run.
Also, "those" people might have different, additional and probably more important obligations such as family or children. Yet some others (as pointed above) might have hobbies which require some time investment.
Lets look to the article itself for 'uninsightful'?

'5 Pervasive myths' indeed - the article actually supports all five, and all five are in fact true.

- old guy
Absolutely. I'd also recommend the tutorials at Lynda.com for really in-depth overviews - they have a whole set of tutorials focused on web design with CS5: http://www.lynda.com/home/ViewCourses.aspx?lpk0=116

That said, Lynda.com is subscription-based and tends to be lengthy. A short set of tutorials on key techniques would be a great resource.
How about "I know the basics, and that's all I really need to know so I'm fine for now"?
It's not an easy question. I just wanted to clarify that the HN guidelines do not categorically rule out submissions such as these.

I think that those who question the relevancy of submissions such as these deserve an answer that is more than "Actually, this is all about hacking!" I did not upvote this submission but here are my reasons for not flagging it:

1. This is likely not a controversial issue among HN readers, major ideological disagreements that might result into insults and people screaming at each other are unlikely. A constructive discussion is likely.

2. The developments in Egypt had no overwhelming presence on HN during the last weeks. I think that frequency and not only the topic matters. This submission would definitely be inappropriate if Egypt had been on the top of HN all the time over the last few weeks but that hasn't been the case. Occasional interesting off-topic diversions have been a part of HN for as long as I can remember. We have to be vigilant so that they don't overwhelm HN but they are occasionally ok.

3. The developments in Egypt are serious and not superficial or phony, worthy of a constructive discussion.
I agree and commented as much on the thread. People started playing with these things in the 1950s, 1960s etc but the market for software developers really started in the 70s, 80s, 90s, so you saw a disproportionate amount of younger developers in this field.

Just like with radio in the early 1900s and other new industries. With time that bulk of age averages out to other industries. Development is an important role in all that we do now, why would only 20yr olds be doing it.
If it's a relationship you want to be in, embrace the time away from work to be present and enjoy being with someone you love.

If you find your relationship distracts you from work you want to be doing, and find yourself wishing you were doing work and weren't with your significant other, end the relationship.
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We have access to that, but we can't share it since the comments often include confidential information.

The biggest source of unhappiness is when we can't deliver a feature request immediately.
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If you have a dominant market position. Between iOS, Android and RIM, two minor players joining up isn't going to be a problem.
Actually, we won't really benefit at all. We already have tgrep, and a single user local storage frontend won't really be useful to us (and already exists).
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the date on that link is May 2008. havent started seeing the video yet, but curious to know why this is news now
Did you miss the part of my sentence where I listed an example of what would qualify as actual exploitation?

Obviously I know they're using it as a recruiting screen. It's completely appropriate for them to do so.
Not just a real possibility, but a very likely one. I recall that in one interview, a protester was complaining about the lack of economic opportunity. "The supervisor hires all his nephews! Regular people can't get any hours!" (Or something to that effect.)

No matter how awesome the new regime is, I doubt they can fix this. Sad fact: many of Egypt's problems are inflicted by the people on themselves, not by Mubarak.
I use Photoshop/Illustrator when provided by my employer, but mostly I just use Inkscape. Gimp is too painful to use.

I don't fee like I need any more skills in Photoshop.
That could have been a result of flagging. Flagging will push a submission down.
Mubarak Resigns, Joy in Egypt
Wow, disclaimer longer than the press-release. Which poor soul was forced to write such a thing...
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I find InDesign better suited for rapid mockups. Try it sometime.
That does not really tell me what is in the pages though. What are the 175 sites that would have been foreve lost?
Of course I'm not going to bet on a company which the CEO describes as being on a burning platform. You do realise that jumping off a burning platform does not mean you fall into a safe bed, it means that you know what you're doing now doesn't work, so you're taking a wild jump into nothing.

If the CEO thinks it's a gamble, so do I, and I'm not going to bet money on it.

It's not a certain thing with a certain outcome, but it's the best chance they have. It can go wrong, but then, every big decision can.
I read the article as making a distinction between using it in the transaction and storing it for use in postal spam.
Perhaps you are dismayed because, for most of the population, a man's priority in life is to fulfill a vision. A woman's is to find love.

(Usual disclaimers - men also want love and women also enjoy working on a vision.).
Reasonably successful? I dare you to name one single Nokia-phone made the last half decade which you would consider relevant.

Well "dare" is a pretty big word, as if you're making some kind of threat of retaliation if I do.

So let's just ask Google:
http://www.google.com/search?q=nokia+market+penetration

Second link:
http://gigaom.com/2010/03/18/the-mobile-os-market/

Check that out. According to that data, in the 2007-2009 time frame they shipped more cell phone operating systems than everyone else combined. That probably translates into a lot of physical Nokia phones, too.

The point that it may be stagnant is well taken, which is why I said "reasonably successful" instead of "stomping everyone else into the ground".

But irrelevant it is not.
"What did Android "copy"? An interface with a grid of icons?"

In layman terms, yes. You might argue Android copied it from Apple who copied it from Win Mobile who copied it from Windows who copied it from Apple who bought it off Parc. But that would be annoying to read.
The article treats MeeGo and Symbian synonymously, even though Nokia's announcement puts Symbian on a 2yr gang plank and says MeeGo is to be actively developed.

MeeGo development probably is doomed because Nokia is expected by its shareholders to cut R&D overheads, and the current plan doesn't look like doing that. I'm surprised that Nokia still is putting some of its weight behind it. The article seems oblivious to this point.
The biggest problem I face is that in the time it takes me to do a single page mock up a pro could have done 15 different one. It is not quite a matter of software knowledge at this point, it is more of a "this is the only thing I can think of doing" thing.
think tank == lobbying
Layer styles are an incredibly underrated feature, IMO.

I actually built a small business around them: http://photoshoplayerstyles.com/
Here are couple of things:

1. Sync slows down the interface of the application a lot. There should be an option to completely disable Sync. Or Sync should have been an add-on installed by default. If I want to sync only the bookmarks, do just that, nothing else. Sync should also be activated only when I save a new bookmark, not every now and then.

2. SQLite slows down the application and complicates things with those default smart folders. You can't even create a smart folder for bookmarks. Mozilla should have write a faster database for bookmarks and history — they are just soem lines of text after all.

3. Live Bookmarks are useless now since the RSS icon was removed. It was useless before. I think by removing the code for Live Bookmarks and treating bookmarks and history in the same way will make things work faster.

4. Tab Groups also slows down the interface. It is useless since you can manage multiple tab groups by opening new windows.

5. Moving the status bar in the address bar was a bad idea. It complicates the user experience. Status bar should be shown only when something new happens — a download stars, a new page is loading, etc.

I don't know what happens under the hood, but Firefox is heading in the wrong direction.
You mean like these guys
http://androidandme.com/2010/09/carriers/v-cast-app-store-to...
http://phandroid.com/2010/04/13/vodafone-opening-up-shop-wit...

I can't say I remember any of the Droid marketing mentioning running android either.
It is a little different but not that different.
same here - in my early days I was more interested in screwing around than I was working, but as I get older I find that I'd rather work than do anything else.

Call me a workaholic, bad father, bad husband, but it is what it is.
Don't we do that in grocery lines all the time?
You're saying that archiving the data, or packaging it up in a torrent rather than just throwing it away is a waste of money?
Implying that he did a bad job at MS doesn't sound plausible since he was offered a CEO position in another megacorp.
Dude, you can make the same statement about anything in life that fires you up. Take cooking, millions of people go home and put a frozen meal in the microwave, some cook indifferently the same stuff over and over, and some are totally into their cooking.

I am sure there's a person somewhere putting together an awesome meal with fresh ingredients thinking "How can people eat spaghetti with sauce from a jar every night".

Embrace your passions, but don't be surprised if others don't share them.

And if you want to understand how others feel, think of all the things you do in a day that don't bring you a driving urge for self-improvement.