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I’ve always wanted to learn Blender for simple stuff, but as it’s not my day-to-day I’ve never found time to do a deep dive. If this tutorial isn’t up to date do you have any other suggestions on how to get started?
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For all the shoppers who doesn't know what RAM or CPU is, the Smart Covers is probably the most important feature when deciding what tablet to buy: A feature that the competition cannot match at all and which is overlooked by all of the "feature list" comparisons.
The internet changed airlines, but airplanes still fly the same way.
python IDE's/text editor/whatevers: komodo Edit (the full $300 version) works very nicely for perl/python/ruby (never tried tcl), if you get somebody to buy if for you (no BizSpark that i can see).

I have't tried the intelliJ IDEA series (pyCharm, phpStorm, etc) but based on the scala plugin, I betcha they're quite solid as well.

http://devnet.jetbrains.net/thread/287853;jsessionid=521D68C...

XCode Pricing: kinda like pinboard.in at $9.26, just enough to deter somebody from buying, for whatever reason.
It doesn't seem to be working for chrome... (latest version, who knows which, probably a new one when you read this)
There is a difference between a reason and an excuse. An excuse is an attempt to remove blame ("it's not my fault, the traffic was bad") whereas a reason is an explanation of the cause ("the traffic was bad"). The latter, isn't an attempt to remove blame, but to a) identify risk factors that can potentially be mitigated in future and b) to remove misunderstandings ("I bet he was late because he didn't care" or as in the article "If the work would have mattered to you, you would have found a solution.") by explaining the true factors that caused the issue.

Assuming people are maliciously trying to ruin your day, and flat out don't care, is a sign of poor thinking patterns and a precursor for mental illness.
If I can't come in at 9.15am, then I'm not staying a second past 5pm. In my experience, the places that are strictest on this kind of thing are the same ones that browbeat you on not being a team player when your hours are up. This kind of management practice is probably the biggest reason I went it alone.
Not designed to be dumped
The quote is from the article linked in the title (which appeared on HN yesterday or early this morning, depending on your time zone):

http://areallybadidea.com/launch
Not sure. You might still be able to follow it through the first few lessons. The issue is that the UI has completely changed as well as even much of the basic functionality. Basically I remember using this tutorial when I was a sophomore in college, and it's now been three years since I've graduated. In that time blender has become an entirely different program, but only a couple paragraphs have been added to this tutorial.
it is sad to see apple mac/osx fail now for the 5th year in pwn2own; that means apple doesnt take their task seriously,as much as they take ux polishing and leak-hyping. that explains why on mac os/x safari usage lags behind others; given a competitive environment apple products can't compete.
Well said. I never understood why people associate startups with long hours. Sure, that was the stereotype for VC-backed disaster startups back in the '90s, but there's no reason to expect that you need to work 12 hour days just to run a software business.

I live comfortably on revenues from my little software empire, and I can't remember the last time I worked a 40 hour week on one of my products.

I'm like most developers in that I work in bursts. I get maybe one or two full-day pushes in a good week, and lots of little tinkering bursts that last an hour or so. When none of that is happening, you'll find me off living my life.
A misunderstanding of the technology is also a risk. Former Twitter engineer Alex Payne’s claim that Ruby was slow continues to haunt general conversations about Ruby to this day

The more things change, the more they stay the same! Chatter about slow will hang on even when the facts contradict.
Asking the wrong questions. There are people making lots of money in each of those and more.
The reason i'm not working right now is because i'm reading on Hacker News
Perhaps it's because FUD drives involvement by creating division. Humans seem to love to disagree so building up an article based on random unprovable opinions usually gets people riled up and responding. It's link bait, essentially.

I haven't used node.js yet, so I can't speak for or against it. If I find a use for it I'll probably give it a try. If it doesn't feel right I can always use EventMachine in Ruby, use Erlang, Python or whatever else makes sense.
Huh, never knew about this. Thanks!
Chromium's at 11 too ;-)
Not sure if the rules were stricter, but Chrome's increased bounty from Google was the main thing I wanted to hear about in this contest. It's a nice PR move if Chrome isn't hacked successfully, and probably a nice recruitment move if it is.
I'm not saying anything (pos or negative) about node.js, but regarding erlang syntax, i'll make (circumstantial) arguments that erlang really is not complex:

- the pattern matching syntax of erlang, F#, ocaml and haskell is similar (obviously the 4 differ in a lot of details, but it's getting harder to avoid all 4 langs round these parts (HN)

- I don't have the stats in front of me, but if you look at LoC counts for the erlang killer apps (rabbitMQ, CouchDB, riak the dynamo clone, ejabberd etc) I think you'll see that the core functionality is usually a small number of thousands rather than 10K's of LoC.

(Looking for LoC stats, ohloh doesn't back me up, they show e.g. 180k for ejabberd, 18k for riak ... where the heck are LoC stats in github?
IOS: A Walled Garden
> its a better sudo-code

Now that's a powerful language. :)
Well...the last Safari update patched 50 things. So, I am hoping that some light is shining into the Apple security brain.
I like it! If you could also make comment threads foldable, it would be fantastic.
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That's a lot of modafinil. That stuff burns me out after a week of daily use, let alone 9 months. Mixing it with caffeine makes me crazy as well. Be careful with your neurons people.

Can I ask what sort of doses you were taking?
There's a set of video lectures, which seem to be pretty up-to-date: http://gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html
"It allocates web server resources on an as-needed basis, not pre-allocating a large chunk of resources for each user. For example, Apache might assign 8MB to a user, while Node assigns 8KB"

What? Apache may allocate 8MB of stack space for each thread, but that doesn't mean it consumes that much memory. This is distorting facts.
"I've asked many doctors about this. They insist that they
are not effected by sleep deprivation. They claim it is safer to have the same doctor for 24-48 hours rather than hand off a patient to a new, fresh doctor."

Absolute bunk. Doctors are the last people in the world who should "insist they are not affected by sleep deprivation." Their whole job is to make decisions based on medical evidence. It doesn't affect you? Prove it. Show me a study looking for correlations between medical errors and sleep deprivation. Show me a study measuring alertness at the end of an 80-hour work week. Don't give me anecdotes. Give me proof. To do otherwise, as a doctor, is hypocritical.

Here's my anecdote: my wife is a resident, and she comes home from a 30-hour shift so tired, she's nervous about driving and sometimes feels like she has the flu.

Is she just weak? Should other doctors look down on her?

Not without a rock-solid study to prove their point. Instead, doctors seem to have a hazing mentality - "I survived this, so you should have to, too." But it's really a question of medical fact: how do medical work schedules affect patient outcomes? Any doctor who doesn't see that is being dangerously irrational.
And I have to wonder how many of those users will come to regret that they shot all their babby-pictures in some deliberately cruddy format instead of the best possible available to them.
Microsoft Kinect 'fastest-selling device on record'
The older I get, the more I learn that in many cases in the past, 'having done everything I could' did not make a difference to 'doing the 80% solution' in the end.

Doing everything you can is a perception within you, your imagination of an ideal solution. This does not mean that this is always necessary to achieve a certain goal. There is always more to do, better things to achieve no matter how close to perfect you get.
> Nicely done, I like the minimalistic/simple look.

Thanks. It boosts our confidence a bit; we're not the only ones who like the design theme. :)

> I'm not sure who the target audience is:

You're spot on, based on what is available at the site now. However, as I mentioned in the post, we are working on integrating XML/RSS feeds for as many locations, from as many sources as we can. We hope once this is in place, it'll provide at least a minimum value for a larger mass to visit their local page daily/frequently. What do you think?

> add the posibility to suggest modification of the source data.

Has been on our to-do list already :-) This feature should go live in a few hours from now.

Thanks again for your detailed and highly valuable feedback.
"due to the amount implicit knowledge that a doctor gathers during a >24h time period about his patients that can't be transferred in a handoff."

While this may be true, the process of the handoff could be vastly improved. My wife is a resident, and the quality of info she gets during a patient handoff varies drastically, from detailed notes in a computer, correlated to medical history, to scrawled notes on paper. Sometimes she has to start from square 1.

Maybe the reason handoffs are harmful is because they're done poorly. And maybe they're done poorly because the doctor who's handing off is freaking exhausted.
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It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that defines us.
EU “Cookies” Directive. Interactive guide to 25th May and what it means for you
Yeah, i would say insanely fast indexing speed is a winner at 3 stages of

a) developing the 2 or 3 indexes you need for good search results
b) running test suites
c) production

That said, in the past, I haven't been able to transfer the index configuration from sphinx to SOLR indexes and get 98% matches between the 2 engines. Sphinx (thinking sphinx in rails) used to do funny stuff in the pre-1.0, like if you put in 2 search terms you would get X results, if you put in those 2 terms plus another, you would get more results. I think they've fixed most of that in 1.0
Great, thanks! I’ll have a look through these.
The iPad Falls Short as a Creation Tool Without Coding Apps
I have heard enough horror stories about Paypal from others, and had enough hassle from them myself, that I never use them whenever there is another payment option.

How easy would it be to set up an online transaction site that was actually easy and hassle-free to use? One where:

(a) costs of transferring money to another account are low, and similar to the cost of performing the transaction, not the 3-5% of transaction that Paypal and credit cards charge. The only thing that might be expensive is getting money in and out of the site, because you'd have to go through the traditional banking industry.

(b) where there is no distinction between merchant accounts and other accounts. Why should there be? All accounts should be able to send and receive money.

(c) the site started off with some ways you could spend/get money, e.g. something like flickr, adsense/adwords, and web hosting.

(d) there would be no credit protection; if Alice give money to Bob and then isn't satisfied with the goods the she received from Bob, she should take it up with him not with the transaction service.

(e) the service would have apis that made it easy for other companies to build services around.

I'm assuming it would be difficult to impossible due to banking laws -- does anyone know better?
The latter, isn't an attempt to remove blame

I actually have a different view.

Excuse: "I'm sorry, but the traffic was bad".

Reason: "The traffic was bad << now fuck off >>"

If the work would have mattered to you,
you would have found a solution

Over the years after getting my brain fucked for pennies and consistently treated as a resource that shouldn't question the powers that be, I get pretty cynical when I hear such words.
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A (very) similiar recent article:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/01/the_rise_and_rise_of...
I think this manager didn't care about you being late or not. All he cared about was results. If you would have come in at 9:15 AND showed poor results and then came up with an excuse he would have punished you for it. But if you came in, with a confident smile on your face because life was good and you loved your work, he would have just smiled back at you.
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And the moment you say something like this; they down-rate you. Great going, HN.
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well said. Starting a startup is a marathon not a sprint; pace yourself or you'll regret it later.

Everyone starting out seems to think it'll be all over in a year and they'll be rich. It's more likely to be a couple of years and few people can sustain intense work for that long without crashing.
To be fair, I think he's a fake guy. Look at the start of the "article" it has all the weasel words that you'd expect to see in a dodgy email forward. "I once heard a story of a an unnamed manager at an unnamed company who..."

Go to Snopes and you can find a hundred emails that start like that.

What's there's a word for this type of story, that I can't recall at the moment. Straw-man set up to illustrate the moral of the tale. Truth is with only so many hours in a day, and burn out is just a much a risk as anything else, work-life balance is sometimes required.

The article might be interesting and eye opening if you're a teenager, when I was a high school teacher, the constant use of low value excuses was worth drawing attention to. In fact occasionally delighting a high-school teacher with a new excuse sounds appropriate and realistic. A manager at a big-company though? Fuck that, adults do sometimes have real excuses - their kid was sick, the roof on their house was leaking, whatever. Could you imagine some dude checking off "ahh sick child #123, delightful" when you told him your kid was sick? You'd punch that miserable fucker in the nuts.

I call bullshit.
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Inbound Marketing Attracts Millions Of Google’s Dollars
At peak I was taking 1.5 100mg pills a day - one in the morning upon waking up, half after lunch to keep me going till the evening. Plus probably 2-3 (strong) coffees.

I would not recommend this to anyone.

Since this is over, I've taken Modafinil sporadically (only v. low dose... 1/4 of a 100mg pill), but I found that it doesn't really make that much difference. I feel more productive and focused when I take it, but I don't actually get more done.

What works best is a combination of a good night's sleep, a healthy lifestyle including physical activity, and decent discipline (in my case, with the pomodoro method).
Seriously? Even if you sell your old one?
Backing up what you said, where the United States really falls behind in international comparisons is in direct comparison of students from prospering families, or comparison of students who have college-educated parents. See

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/pepg/PDF/Papers/PEPG10-19_Hanushe...

for considerably more detail. The United States has a much lower top end of achievement in its population distribution than most other OECD countries.
Show HN: My iOS app  AdAppella - TV ad tunes
I find it hilarious that people STILL criticise scripting languages for being slow. I mostly build sites in PHP - it's not a great language, it's not a fast language, but it really doesn't matter - page loads bottleneck on DB or front-end long before PHP's execution time becomes a problem, even without an opcode cache!
Yeah, but if the costumers are cautious to always use the chip instead of the magnetic strip it's much more difficult for criminals to steal the info without the owner noticing it.
Angry Birds Maker Rovio Raises $42 Million From Accel, Atomico And Felicis
That's not the impression I get, with the little book and all. It's no different to the managers who walk around with hand puppets that fulfil the 'bad cop' part of his routine.
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When I read yesterday's post about the sprint to launch at SXSW, I thought 3 things:

1. Great determination, great work ethic, great job.
2. It doesn't have to be this way.
3. It shouldn't be this way.

Thanks, Daniel, for saying what I was thinking, far better than I could have.

I feel fortunate that my DNA is blessed with some sort of internal "governor". I don't know where it came from, but I've always had it. Here's how it works: It stays out of the way when I am enthusiastic about something, allowing me work ridiculous hours and pursue almost anything that looks promising, whether it makes sense or not. But when I reach a certain point, it turns me off, completely. I don't seem to have conscious judgement of what that point is or when I reach it, but when it happens, I know.

A few examples:

- I have worked many times without sleep, preparing for a launch. Sometimes, I know my judgement is failing and continuing would cause more problems in the long run. So I stopped and apologize to everyone. I went to sleep and informed everyone that the project would resume at x. I'm not really sure exactly what happened, but I know I had little control over the governor.

- I had 2,500 invoices spread across the carpet, looking for a clue about a bug. After 8 hours, everything was fuzzy. So I just gathered up the invoices, filed them away, and went to sleep. Three days later a lightbulb went off, I spread out 100 of the invoices, and found the problem in 15 minutes. I know that if I had continued that night, I never would have found the problem.

- I worked 90 hours per week for 2 months for a big deployment. Without telling me, my co-founder spent all of our reserves travelling to a customer site to oversee the install. He emailed me every 20 minutes with a problem. Between being pissed off at him and exhausted from working on the wrong things, I realized the project was going nowhere and would never succeed. So I just stopped working completely. I went to bed and didn't answer email for 4 days. I'm not proud of this, just one more story about my internal governor.

I'm a little frustrated that I don't have much control over my governor, but also a little relieved that it does it's thing. After all, I've never really been burnt out, and I'm still going strong. Thank you, governor.
A valid point, but the article mentions that the employment decline is disproportionately concentrated amongst low skill workers. It doesn't seem likely to me that these types of workers would be living in a household where only one of the spouses would work and the other would stay at home by choice.
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For once I don't agree with pg. When a baby cries, it can be for numerous reasons, and sometime for no reason. Some say that if the mother is too far away, babies cry because they have the ancestral fear that they are lost in the Ethiopian savanah and they cry to help their mother find them back.

The real question is more: Shall we let our baby cry if he have eaten, has clean diapers and do not move like if he had a bubble in the belly? If you do not let him cry, then you are stuck for 6 months without a proper sleep. If you do you have to deal with your culpability.
TL:DR

I though each slide had to much text for me to read before I could get to the point. I also missed exactly -what- this service did. It's market (why keeping diaries is good) not brand (why dayri is good).
New "Google Chrome Logo" leaked?
Show HN: StartupBu.gs - novelty or bust?
Angry Birds raise $42M?
If I could change one thing about hackers, it would be their overall misunderstanding and attitude towards marketing.
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What I want from the Common Lisp community
non-3d-logo's look really ugly in OSX's dock.
Please let me know any feedback, I realise there is not much to go on as yet but I'm hoping to generate as much interest as I can :)
I'd submit http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3208226254834485@naggum.... if my site wasn't blacklisted. "What I want from my Common Lisp vendor and the Common Lisp community"
Hey, pagerDuty!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1818061
"stagnating __compared to the hype it had couple or more years ago__"

New API for ActiveRecord, modularity, merging with Merb are very important, but it's not a game-changer. Rubinius and RubyMine on the other side are game-changers.
Unfortunately, this isn't very rigorous - the dataset can easily be gamed by instagram.
What does it do - did 20k people sign up without knowing anything about it?

Kind of reminds me of dating sites: I have long had the theory that the less you write about yourself, the more attractive you will seem, because it leaves more to the imagination.
While it's likely true that people who sacrifice everything are rarely successful, I think that the people at the top of their fields almost always have.

There's almost, but not quite, the subtext here that over the top dedication doesn't matter. But it does affect one's potential, it just doesn't guarantee success.

So rationally, since you probably won't get to the top of your field, it's folly to burn yourself out trying. But then, by that same logic, starting a startup is altogether irrational since it'll probably be a lot of work for little money and ultimate failure.

There's a function from commitment to potential, and the area between that line and the plot of a rational career choice is the place founders live. It's really a matter of how far of a departure overbearing self-confidence allows you to justify. But the biggest winners are the ones that start among the most self-deluded. ;-)
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Fully funded startup based out of NYC and London looking for a bright lead developer - what is the best way to find one?
OK, I'll be that guy.

I don't get it. What's the use case? Can you give me an example of a typical user, and what they'd be doing?
> If the work would have mattered to you, you would have found a solution.

Sorry, but my life matters to me a great deal more than work. Sorry, work. No harsh feelings, I hope.
Time to ban this domain.
Upload a file, the download page is a chat room, where people who are downloading the file can chat, in the simplest terms.

Other people can then be selected to upload more files which can be shared with other users in the chat.