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Best stop dreaming and start saving then.

Book your flight for the end of November. Round trip to Bangkok before the peak will run you $600-$800 from the west coast. Make your way to Tonsai and negotiate yourself a good monthly rate for a bungalow. If you show up before the main tourist season and plan to stay until March, you can usually get them down to around $200/month.

Even with all the Beer Chang and Massuman Gai you can handle, you still won't be able to spend more than five grand all in.

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Is this a serious post ? How does an iphone "drive" a car ? If you think GPS and turn by turn instructions is the same thing has actually controlling the car on a road, you couldn't possibily be more wrong ...

Your second point is strange too, do you actually think that a big tech company like google should not try to research new stuff outside of its comfort zone ? Or because one of their product is imperfect, they shouldn't work on another even if they have the ressources ?

I hope this was a joke that I didn't get ...
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Dude! Your product sustains at least 4 buzzwords in a single sentence and has a nifty design - it's definitely NOT boring :-)
There are definitely boxes who focus on good form, which is great (and should be the norm), but I think due to the fact that the Level 1 cert is so easy to get, the quality suffers in some gyms.
As someone who just tried to start this kind of thing (heavy squat/deadlift every couple of days) and hurt my lower back pretty good, I just don't know about this advice.
In theory, yes. In practice, they're often too slow if you care about such things.

The continuation pretty much contains the stack at the point it's captured, plus registers and the current instruction pointer. If you're in an interpreter, basically just the current environment and a pointer to the node being evaluated. You can represent the environment as a linked list of activation records, and each activation record as a hash-table mapping symbols to values.

In fact, it's probably faster than a SICP-style toy scheme interpreter that stores the environment as an association-list. It's just that neither comes close to a C-style runtime where the stack is just a contiguous block of memory and local variables are precomputed into memory offsets from the stack pointer.
Hmm, well it's more subtle than that. Running on a "real" surface, that is constantly changing gradient and direction, works a lot of ancillary muscles for stability and balance that you don't get on a treadmill. The cardio workout might be the same. But if you trained for a Marathon only on a treadmill, you'd be in for a bit of a surprise when you tried a real one. Without the core strength you'd lose your form, your running would be less efficient, you'd get exhausted much more quickly.
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Various attempts at this have been made, but a bigger obstacle to anonymity than good software is mass adoption of that software.
There are 16 featured tablet apps in the market. Search for HD, THD or tablet, and you'll find considerably more. I'm working on one of them.

Google could stand to refine the UI for finding tablet apps, though in fairness to them, showing off 16 good ones on launch week was probably a reasonable move.

(Written on a tablet-adapted HN reader that isn't one of the 16, on a Xoom.)
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Simple repetition can be a powerful way to get people to change their minds but I suspect in this sort of environment it doesn't work so well as those who disagree simply don't read it once they establish the basic gist and just skip the post. As a result it's not really being repeated to them in any way that matters.

My experience tends to be that if I've not won someone over with one particular argument then my best tack is to try something else they might be more responsive to rather than just keep repeating myself.

But maybe the real issue is that I hope that HN might be a source of intelligent discussion on the subject with an attempt to find interesting and / or practical solutions to the problems raised rather than a more straight forward continual reassertion of views that could frankly be carried out by a series of Python scripts.
As a person who's been doing some hiring recently (http://www.covalentsoftware.com/company/careers.php if anyone's interested in Java work in Taunton ;))...

I'd suggest definitely putting OS projects on your cv, if they're more relevant skills wise personally I'd be happy to see them ahead of your career history, probably with a quick explanation as to why above them.

What sort of jobs are you going for? I do occasionally get cvs from people with a lot of experience in other languages, and some in Java which I'm hiring for. The main problem is they're being put forward for positions based on past experience in other languages. Whilst a lot of what developers do is transferrable I have to measure them against other applicants with more relevant experience so often they're too expensive vs the competition. If they are applying for a more junior role to balance this out there's then a risk to me they won't be happy with the salary I can offer them and/or will return to their previous work.

Given the above I'd suggest tacking the risk by explaining you're trying to move your career into a new language hence applying for the role. This may also feed the ego of whoever you're applying to that they're working in a desirable language. If you are willing to take a slight step down based on moving away from an area of expertise you can then differentiate yourself against other applicants based on your broader experience.

HTH
I think what he means is that it's ok if your program crashes, because people expect android apps to crash... So you should just release fast and be agile. Unless he means a different agile.
Yes almost like a taxi, what I meant to say is that today you don't drive to work in a taxi because they are so expensive most of the time or inconvenient because few are available.

If driverless cars became maintream I'm pretty sure it would drastically decrease the price of such commutes thus changing the way we own a car today.
Great for everyone, except those of us who were stupid enough to buy the G1...
Nobody gives a damn, but I'm immensely happy to see this man turn to my field, if only for this kind of post: http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/rnyi-entropy-...

The ongoing series on information geometry also looks excellent.
I'm not going to argue that what you describe isn't good, but 'nature intended us to' isn't a particularly solid argument.

You could argue that nature intended us to die from Malaria by the age of 30, I'm very glad that for most of the world that's no longer the case.
"The SS" means the Secret Service, not the Schutzstaffel, if it takes anyone a second to figure that out.
Tell HN: Fake email bounce to fight spam idea
I guess spammers must try to keep their email lists clean of wrong addresses, since bounces hurt their sending score in spam filters. What would happen if every time I flag an email as spam in my gmail, it would automatically send a bounce to the sender? I guess sometimes the sender is spoofed, so the bounce wouldn't make sense, but with some pseudo-spammy websites I think that's not the case.

What do you think?
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In this case I believe that crediting Apple for setting the bar on what a graphical user interface for a personal computer should look like is accurate. While they did borrow heavily from Xerox PARC and certainly didn't invent the dekstop, Apple put a compelling product in front of the masses.
Except... for almost everyone else in this thread.
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its still there .
which in other words means exactly "they don't WANT TO make money on the device"
Even if the domain is hosted out of US jurisdiction, so many sites are littered with Facebook 'Like' buttons, couldn't the requests for those assets then be taken from Facebook? Is it time to start adblocking all these useless but perhaps identifiable information?
Also a good example. 37Signals has great advice here: sell your byproducts. Amazon was forced to invest heavily in scaling dynamic websites as a byproduct of running a high-volume retail store, it invented a lot of internal tools to support that some of which they've adapted and spun-off into standalone products like AWS, EC2, S3, etc. In the process they've helped leverage themselves into more of a technology company than merely a web-store.
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Thank you all SO much.

maxbrown and minalecs, you make some great design points. jayzee, really good insight into the tribal behavior. And nice physics reference.

I'm going to let it all sink in today (during my day job), and this weekend will be full of some 'putin and 'grammin.
Pretty cool. The rectangular select tool doesn't work on my system (Chrome 9.0.597.107, Mac OSX10.6). I see tons of visual artifacts where it hasn't repainted correctly. See http://grab.by/9hPv
Android got screwed big time by the carriers, and it looks like Google is now trying to make up for that, by exposing new features through libraries. Too bad it has come to this ...
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I also browse the web, read Gmail, check my calendar, and read books, all of which are great on the Xoom.

Games are still way behind the iPad, however, and I imagine that everybody needs at least one great long-tail app that's only available on the iPad right now.
As a bible for starting fitness training, might I add that Starting Strength [1], by Mark Rippetoe, is a must read.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287803
Pentax has been also been pushing this strategy with their low end DSLRs. See http://www.aperturedaily.com/get-bored-with-black-pentax-k-x... for some examples. Although I can't find any data on how successful they've been.
Ask HN: Best marketing strategy for freelance web designer?
Hi. I am a freelance web designer. My portfolio is at www.madebyargon.com

Currently I offer web design and user interface design services, my hourly rate comes to about $50. Most of my clients are web developers or web-dev agencies.

I am developing a marketing strategy that reimagines my service's four P's(product, price, promotions, place), and I could use some insight.

What kind of design service do you need the most? website design? ui design? iphone app design?

What is most important? aesthetics? usability? speed?

What kind of pricing do you prefer? hourly rate or per project? What is a good price point?

What kind of services would you value the most? unlimited revisions? 24-hour support? fast delivery?

Please let me know how I can improve my services to better serve my customers' needs. Thank you.
Since price doesn't seem to be a problem, I could use some more in-depth suggestions.

I submitted a new AskHN thread to get some ideas. Please comment if you have anything to add.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287812
It is truly interesting how people from the west assume everywhere else is just an inferior or (when they wish to be more politically correct) "less developed" version of the west. It is just inconceivable that Asia, Africa, etc. might have different ways that are also valid and successful.
great article , the only question I have is how to accurately measure when your muscles reach super compensation peak?
Depends of what you call "spam"

If you mean real spam, like those trying to sell you pills or scamming / phishing information out of you, bouncing the email won't have any effect at all. The messages are usually sent from botnets (ie: networks of hundreds of infected computers controlled by the spammer), the reply addresses are faked, etc...

If, on the other hand, you mean regular websites that have acquired a database of harvested email adresses and are spamming you with their newsletter, then either they care for the quality of the base and they'll usually provide you with an unsubscribe link, or they don't and there's no point in bouncing back the mail. It will just be ignored. Best thing to do against them still is legal action, since they usually cannot / will not hide their real identity, like professional spammers do.

Conclusion: automatic spam classification is still the way to go, and I must say that gmail is good enough at it that I'm rarely bothered by spam in my inbox.
both unhappiness and poverty are 50% choice. Unless you live in a caste-based system OR have some genuine reasons to be unhappy (e.g. a close relative just died). Luckily, these are usually NOT the norm...
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We got a Xoom delivered to the office yesterday and the first-time experience was terrible. It locked up 10 seconds after turning it on and displayed the keyboard and nothing else on the screen. 6 engineers played with it for a few minutes trying to get the home screen to show up but we couldn't so we forced a hard restart. That seemed to work and we got into the setup process which forces you to pick wireless connectivity. In our case, the Xoom had extreme trouble finding one of the three networks set up at the office and was unresponsive for long periods of time. Finally after it did find the network we used the browser for 2 minutes and it froze and then that managed to freeze the recent-apps sidebar listing panel as well.

This all happened in the first 15 minutes of us pulling it out of the box. If this thing is supposed to compete with the iPad and now the iPad 2, I'd say Motorola already blew it with most consumers. I'm a geek, and so are my coworkers, so we have more patience than many, but at the end of yesterday the consensus in engineering was that the Xoom is a hunk of junk compared to the iPad, and even the Apple-haters at work admitted so.
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I was hoping it would work on iPad.
been discredited by who? I still take this as logical and true to many levels... would love to read a reasonable oposite opinion
This is a really big deal, because if you previously wanted your app to feel like a native Xoom app, you had to write off the Samsung tablets and all phones. But now that the fragment API has been backported, it's possible to work well on the newest tablets and gracefully degrade on older devices and phones.
Let's talk local. Early invitation available.
We are going to provide a new way of location based communication.

www.RockPlaces.com

Don't get confused, you might have seen a similar intro site.
But this ain't a copycat of Hipster and they will probably have a very different service, as we do.
Hopefully we make you a little bit curious too.

If you have any questions, I'd happy to hear them, although I can't provide too much details at this moment.
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You're very patient. After the second idiotic "no, it's a waste of time" I would have just said "ah ok, as you wish" and then did it how I wanted. Why bother trying to educate people who don't want to be smarter?
> You're seriously trying to claim that blown up android phone apps, many of which don't even rescale properly, are competition to the dedicated iPad designs?

I believe the parent is trying to claim that blown up android phone apps on Xoom are no worse than blown up iPhone apps were when the iPad first came out.
Yes, nothing can come close to the C-style stack. What I thought was to maintain a stack or a hash-table of pointers to all the continuations (key/value implemented as pairs a.k.a cons cells) right from the root environment to the latest active environment, so i can kind of implement a push-pop for environments aka 'stack frame' i guess. In the eval phase I can have another function call-with-foreign-continuation where I provide a function and a target continuation to bind that with. Its like hijacking another functions continuation directly.
This DOS is easy to fix. Just ignore the person.

I find the following things quite easy to do: not replying to random emails, ignoring stuff on irc.
It totally depends on _where_ you settle down. They were and are all very happy with their jobs. They were all in their dream jobs! And one did startup->Google directly without being back on the job market.
Erlang is a nice language in many ways, but my own experience is that Ruby is consistently faster for getting things done: it packs more power per line of code for most things.

Erlang's runtime is nicer, but like I said, that comes into play more once you've got popular, not when you're struggling to get traction and may need to change course quickly.
Love it! To take it further, AT&T could choose to pay more to NOT have Verizon notified.
Talk on making an impact by Seth Godin at Business of Software last year
Are you afraid to truly make an impact? The opportunity for linchpin organizations and the people who run them.
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Are you afraid to truly make an impact? The opportunity for linchpin organizations and the people who run them.
Why are people downvoting legit questions?
Some of the best cardio you can get.

Stuff like Muay Thai and Karate's pretty good too.
> Now if you want that thats perfectly alright, but I at least only want to spend as little time as possible caring about my body and as little time as possible with normal people since both things are utterly boring.

You do have a point. Conformity is not the way. But, at the same time, I'm sad you feel those things are boring. Allow me to explain.

I used to be in your shoes, at least in the fitness aspect. I was a bit of a curmudgeon who'd figured life out at age 24 and decided that I'd be happy programming for, well, ever. That worked well until about age 27, when it started to wear thin. Deadlines, feature creep, a billion new technologies...who cares? It was losing its luster quickly. When I turned 28, I came down with carpal tunnel-like symptoms stemming from an overuse injury. I had to leave my job to give my body time to heal. I learned the hard way that I had to respect my body, and respect myself more.

The time I've put in on fitness has enhanced the rest of my life a disproportionate amount. I'm much smarter about what I eat, and I feel better, and I sleep so much better now. Because the sleep is higher quality, I don't need as much of it. I awaken ready to engage the day, rather than slinking through it. The secret of this is that the body was never meant to be disconnected from the mind. The two are engaged in an continual feedback loop whereby one is reinforcing the actions of the others with beliefs/chemicals. You just need to gently prod the two into better habits in order to feel better.

As for people, well, that's what life's all about.
they do keep record of logged ips , beware
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The thing that irks me about this sort of presentation is that it presumes the government is entitled to money that is currently in the hands of private citizens. The reality of taxes is that the government decides how much money to confiscate from individuals who have earned it. Phrasing taxes not collected as a cost is just silly. You would laugh at a charity telling you you are costing them 10's of thousands of dollars a year because you don't donate x% of your income to them, but when it's the government, this line of thinking is seemingly OK. Because of the way the tax code is, there are always loopholes like vacation home deductions and such. The US decided long ago that it wanted to use the tax code to influence personal behavior as well as generate revenue. The result is a complex morass of goop that makes it difficult for the government to budget and results in unintended consequences. People will always look for ways to legally reduce their tax burden.
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The only good thing to have come from the fitness industry, though, is to make gyms much more accessible for those of us who are either not male or not fitness-educated or not hanging around with the right crowd. Before nice shiny gyms came along, there was no way I (a woman) was walking into the garage type place that looks a bit like a minimum security prison yard. However, the problem now is that although gyms are accessible to everyone really, they are shit and the proper weights are still in the darkest mostly-large-males corner where it's still a bit intimidating to go to and bend over or lie down in the middle as the only female.

So there's a silver lining but there's still a cloud.
"Sorry, your browser doesn't support flood fill"

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and if he linked it normally, chances are someone(maybe even you) would post, bitching that they don't want to read 10 pages of an article and to just link to the print page the next time.
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I use this semi-regularly mainly because file->save saves to a URL, saving me the extra upload-somewhere step when making quick sketches that I want to share with people.
I like your comment, but there's something untold here:

There's value in thinking inside the box - MySQL / PostgreSQL may not be the best in any category, but with inside knowledge of the internals, you may fine tune it to surpass any competitor in performance / scalability.

I can't find the project right now, but there was this one guy that made a plugin for MySQL which allowed him to get passed the query parser/optimizer and talked directly with InnoDB ... with the result being much better performance than Memcached; using InnoDB as storage. And because the Memcached protocol is public, heck, you could even have memcache-clients talking directly to your DB.

Not having loyalty to technologies or companies is pragmatic and kick-ass and makes you better in some ways - but it also gives you a wishy-washy attitude, and this outside-of-the-box thinking is actually inside-the-box from at least one perspective, as you'll end up jack of all trades, master of none.

And if you are going to master a piece of technology, which would you rather choose?

A proprietary piece of technology that's best in class for what it does, for which you don't have access to source code, and which might be discontinued after Microsoft invents this new / shiny and backwards incompatible alternative? Or an open-source alternative that's slightly worse in benchmarks or tools available or features - but that you can make it your bitch in any way imaginable?

Pick your poison.
+1 for 5x5. I'm currently on the Texas Method and I'm love the volume on the squats and the deadlifts. I eat pre and post workout carbs though, to make sure I got enough energy (bulking phase right now). The fat you gain is easy to lose afterwards!
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The canvas is not stretched to the entire width of the container in FF 3.6.13/Mac. Try setting the dimensions of the canvas dom object to the dimensions of it's container.
It's good that you live in a place that's conducive to significant physical activity and have the means to take advantage, but the gym is the top option for most situations (access + expense).
I once trained for a 5k race by doing just squats. I beat most of my "cardio" friends. When you start squatting above your BW then you'll be just as out of breath after 8 reps as after a full-on 5k run. Your heart will beat just as fast, and youll be sweating about the same.

Also squats will improve your bone density.

Don't be fooled that suffers like Laird get their physique from surfing. All of them dead lift and squat.

The best thing about squats would be that they "insure" your knees for old age.

Do them right and they are easily the best exercise ever invented IMHO.
Mail.app does the "spoof bounce" thing. Don't think it works.