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Mere support for CSS transforms is actually really limited. What IE9 and Firefox 4 do on Windows 7 is accelerate all drawing and layer compositing. What it means is that as the browsers gain support for CSS animations and such, they get accelerated for free. Stuff like Canvas and SVG also get accelerated. See http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/09/hardware-acceleration/.
The truth about REST
Oh, I didn't even think about the fact that they might pay down his loan debt. I just thought that the military might give him a steady paycheck (and some apparently much-needed discipline while he's at it).

Also, your friend decided to get discharged because they offered him a much better and more lucrative job as an officer rather than as an enlisted grunt + $60K bonus?
I'm not a regular Windows user, but it seems like many even more tech savvy users continually fall for this same cycle of BS from MS. The users frustrated with IE 7 were excited about how much better IE 8 would be. It turned out, IE 8 had many of the same rendering weirdness that IE 7 had. Then came IE 9 to save the day. Only it doesn't do nearly as well supporting HTML 5 features as Chrome, Safari and Firefox.

So now here comes IE 10, and what's the pitch? It's gonna be damn fast. Who gives shit? Chrome and Safari are blazing fast AND you don't have to through all kinds of hacks, and html5.js at them as they work perfectly as is, with nearly ALL of the HTML 5 specifications.
Compete.com measures something, and whatever that something is, it's declining.
It's funny. I've JUST finished spending a week or so on recursion with my students. The FIRST thing I did was have the entire class repeat after me: "Recursion isn't hard. It's just different."

And I've been teaching CS at the high-school level for 13(?) years now, and I've never had a student who just couldn't get recursion. On the contrary, most of the them pick it up pretty quickly. There's initial confusion, followed by the flash of insight, and then they're pretty much golden.
I believe there is a fairly new program where if you work for a government agency or non-profit you can have the remainder of your student loan forgiven after making 120 minimum payments on a income based repayment program.

I quick Google search turned up this website: http://www.ibrinfo.org/index.php
It's kind of funny to see a somewhat iMovie-esque interface. There's an unwritten UI law that if it's more complex, with more knobs and buttons, it must be more "professional". Learning that complexity is a badge of honor that you have to earn. And as a result, there's a resistance in the pro world towards easy-of-use. I really hope Apple can buck that trend and remove what is ultimately just arrogance in that class of product.
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Can't wait.

I'd not seen the noise last week around this announcement - seems like Supermeet might've pissed off a few vendors as Apple blocked out the time to announce FCPX: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20051031-37.html
Wow, this article comes in perfect timing for me. Hopefully, you, the HN community could help me.

I am currently being offered a software engineering job at Apple through a recruiting company. What I want to know is, how much should I be asking for? I am 4 months out of college (no Ivy league, just a state college) with little professional experience. So far, I have said $50k, but is that low-balling it? Should I be asking for more? From what I gather, Apple won't be paying me directly; it will be the recruiting company that will be issuing my checks.

edit:
Forgot to mention that I would be moving from Louisiana to California if I get the job.
Check out the strategies used in http://raptjs.com/ (https://github.com/evanw/rapt).

Specifically the background cache and fast blitting: https://github.com/evanw/rapt/blob/master/game/src/game/back...
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It's a fun guide, but a couple of things irk me. Bending the leads out is a serious no-no - makes it very hard to desolder the component. if there are a lot of components, it' better to solder them in by height, so you can allow tricky parts like diodes, resistors and inductors to rest face down on the table/workstation pad. I think that the things sticking out of ics and semiconductors are usually "pins" not leads. Banging a board on the table can chip the board or get you burned by molten metal... it's better for the entire job to clean the pads of solder with a vacuum tool or desolder braid. Holding your hand over the excess while side cutting is going to hurt and having slivers of tin, copper, nickel and lead in your palm ain't worth it. They should have also had a little aside about wattage as starting with a 45 watt pencil iron is going to suck.
Explain the basis for the "malicious neglect" claim. That's not a rational conclusion. It's unbalanced. It's the mind of an addict.
The argument that webkit is not native because it is open source is a plausible reason to exclude Safari - hence "webkit?" rather than "webkit!"

In my opinion, claims about nativeness are on a par with those about magicalness - but marketing flacks don't get paid based upon sound ontology.
You could pay just 1 cent in order to download the games, and then increase your contribution later after you've ascertained that the games work for you.
To me, it's hard to know what counts as an hour of golfing anyway. Playing golf is, for the most part, a time-inefficient way of practicing golf. You take a couple of hours to go round the course, and if you're good you're only making ninety shots in that time. Go to the driving range or putting green, though, and you can practice ninety shots in five minutes.
Real SEO in a nutshell:

1. Google is smarter than you. Their main project is their search engine. They almost certainly make more money then you, and they absolutely spend more money on their search engine than you would on "SEO".

2. People use google because it finds what they want. To improve their search engine -- to make it more effective -- they make it better at finding what people want.

3. Therefore: the best way to improve your ranking on google is to make your site something that people want to find.

That's it. It's that simple. Do you think you can outsmart google? Can any "SEO expert"? No? Then you have to play their game. The game of making your site something that real people want to find.

Sounds like a good game to me.
The idea behind recursion is I have X, if I know Y then this would be easy. But, picking the correct Y and finding a simple path to get Y is hard for many people.

Consider something as simple as factorials. 1! = 1 and N! = N * N-1! but try to code it as: N! = N! / 1! * 1 = N! / 2! * 2 = N! / 3! * 6. Then with a lot of time and effort they get something that works, but it's not intuitive.
What's the penalty for violating a gag order like the one from this settlement?
Is it possible to get a hold of video of the presentation anywhere?
I would say Mozilla/Gecko was a very good choice when the project started. Webkit itself was just being open-sourced at the time and cross platform compatibility was lacking.
The only problem is that the kids who are excluded from Mr. Thiel's group aren't being treated the same. No one is showering them with a hundred grand of startup capital and advice from the best in the business. They're out there on their own. Maybe they get help from their parents, but that's hardly the same level of assistance as a $100k grant and advice from industry leaders.
And a lot less memory usage!
GitHub Reflog v1.4.12 - GitHub
Perhaps the other problem is that it's not obvious to students what the point of doing things recursively is. OK, it can shave a few characters off your factorization code. Or your Fibonacci code. That's neat, but why get excited?
Great idea! Might you do this for Canadian residents?
Minor quibble: it was actually Woody Allen who coined the "80 percent of success is showing up" phrase.
You can also count on this "Dan Plan" becoming a book. Ultimately, that's the entire point of this project anyways. Not to be a golf champion, but to sell a lot of books.
For my first programming job I asked for $50k and got $40,000. I always resented that, as I thought I was giving them a break in the first place, but I had just moved to the area (DC) and didn't have time to look very hard.

So 6 months later I got them to raise it to 50, and a few months later they they fired the other programmer (my boss, who was making $85k) and expected me to do the work of both he and I, which I was capable of doing. They told me they just gave me a raise so I shouldn't be greedy.

I left of course. They hired my replacement at $90k after having a consultant do the job for three months at typically high rates. I would have accepted $60k! I just didn't want complete disrespect.

A year or so later I was making $80k and found out another guy at this company was making $40k. What the hell? I don't thing anyone should be so royally fucked.

Companies that do this deserve no loyalty. Salary information should be public as long as they persist in such behaviors.
$150,000 is bad but not un-fixable.

You should get credit counselling and speak to a lawyer about your options. Bear in mind credit counselors are often paid by the credit card companies. If you have to or decide to fulling pay down the debt do the following:

1. Cut your costs - Use coupons, shop after 12pm at night (stuff at groceries stores goes on sale then), couch surf. You should be able to get your monthly costs down to $500 a month. Be really aggressive about keeping your costs low, sleep two a room if that's what it takes.

2. Stop being an entrepreneur - there is a time and a place for everything. You might be made to be an entrepreneur but you need to sort out your debt first.

3. Take the best paying job you can and then take another part time job. Basically the goal is to work 80 hour weeks. If you can do that at 10 you'll net $3200 a month.

4. Pay down the highest interest loan first.

5. Sell any and all assets that aren't necessary (computers and TV aren't necessary).

6. Write down everything you spend money on at the end of the day.

Assuming you hit $500 in monthly expenses, can average $10 an hour and have 8% interest rate on your $150,000, you can pay down $2,700 and you'll pay it off in 5 years 10 months. In reality you'll do it faster because when you get yourself back on track it will snowball.

EDIT:

7. Refinance to lower rates whenever possible

8. Ask for help and tell people about your problem. Don't necessarily ask for charity but you might end up with a better job out of it.
But think about how products are positioned. I think his comparison with the 50s is a bit simplistic, but think about a product advertisement from those times: "This is the widget OF THE FUTURE!". It would be presented very differently now, much more about how it's the cool and chic thing. From a culture of the future to a culture of the past.

As an side: he very carefully managed to avoid dropping into the quagmire of "it was so much better back then" by addressing a specific aspect, for which I'm glad. There's plenty to dislike about US culture in the 50's as far as the kind of forward thinking going on ("I'll have a jetpack to fly to work and the missuss will have a jet kitchen to use while she stays at home and raises our jet-children").
IE10 Platform Preview 1, available for download today is the first step...

The only native experience of the Web and HTML5 today is on Windows 7 with IE9.
I second the recommendation for The Simple Dollar.

Also, OP, be sure to ask the five why's. Other people have six figures in debt but have very different stories to tell. You answered the question as to why you haven't been able to pay off your debt, but it leads to another question: when you had regular jobs, why weren't your salaries higher? Were you not an effective employee? Why? Were you not effective at finding a job? Why?

Best of luck to you.
When I was a child back in early 90s in USSR and seeing happy life in 'Home Alone' I was asking "Why I was born in USSR, not USA?". Yeah, life was shit then.

20 years later, I am happy that I was born in USSR precisely due to these nasty things. Everyone I know here were able to get free education, and are dept-free now. Such stories keeps my intent to continue debt-free life.
Which meets in the back of a rutabaga truck.
The work spaces of over-achievers from Aaron Sorkin to Oprah Winfrey
Seems to work fine in Chrome on my MacBook; shame about the awful-looking serif font though.
Transitions and 3D transforms are animations.
nice! I thought about doing this about a year ago...never actually put the effort into completing it though.
They probably do have some kind of publishing schedule to space out their articles evenly.
I don't think it's unreasonable for someone to decide to do something, then get frustrated when they are unable to do so. For instance, if you bought a new computer and TV, and then it started acting up or didn't work, you might quite reasonably spend time troubleshooting drivers, firmware, maybe even cables, to try to get it working.

It's not that you're an addict to the system. If you knew it was a broken part ahead of time, you might have simply sent it in for repairs and gone skiing instead. But if you decided "hey I'm going to do X this weekend", it's quite easy to lose time trying to do so.

As far as "malicious neglect", you could conclude that the author really thinks EA wants their DRM servers to fail on purpose and has lost touch with reality. Or, you could just read that as an upset and frustrated user (not necessarily an "addict") expressing things with a bit of hyperbole.
I usually show them a recursive Towers of Hanoi solver. It's alarmingly simple (fewer than 10 LOC) and most of them can't even imagine how to write it iteratively.

I tell them that recursive code is rarely better than iterative code, but for certain types of problems, it's SO much easier to come up with a recursive solution that it's worth knowing how to do.
In these situations inflation is your friend. Assume 2% inflation and 5 years chips away at ~10% of cost of servicing a loan. AKA 40% of your income = 36% in 5 years and 32% in 10 years. Get 3.5% and that's 33% in 5 years and 28% in 10 years.
That is the plan. Australia is lucky in that it has a large population of "compers"/people who enter competitions as a hobby and as a result there is a large number of online competitions available to enter. With the target market being middle aged women and the demographics of Canada and Australia being almost identical it has become our first step in expanding overseas. Britain unfortunately has a few competitors which obviously has pro and cons for entering the market there.
This list mentions the original (T-Mobile) Nexus S as being oem rootable - I wonder if the recently announced Sprint version will be as open?
That's wonderfully devious. And probably quite straightforward to implement.

I hope it doesn't happen, because that'd be a bit of a nightmare for Dropbox. They could blacklist known pirate rips of movies and the like, but what do you do when you receive a takedown notice for DRM-free content that some users are legitimately storing, but Dropbox is now (accidentally) illegally distributing? Could be the end of global de-duping.
Or by how much a consumer can get away with buying it for.
Startup Quote: Brad Feld, managing director, Foundry Group
The Humane Interface?
He enlisted for personal reasons, not for monetary reasons. He was looking for a challenge, and thought that enlisting and kicking ass in the military would help him get that. Money was never an issue - he will make plenty of money.

He left in the middle of a full-ride to law school, and when he left he was top of his class. The second person on the curve had something like a 65% average. He wound up getting the same scholarship back and is now putting up similar numbers. He's going to be fine monetarily speaking.
You obviously aren't using a high enough resolution screen. (slight sarcasm)
I'm thinking a book deal.
Joel Spolsky pithily summarized the argument: http://akkartik.name/blog/12342736
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Ok I looked at your commenting history and it seems like you have this same discussion over and over. I disagree with you, but I definitely see merit to what you're saying.
U.S. Lagging In Using Technology
Most other countries have twice that sales tax, as well as having all those other taxes. The best rough estimate of taxation burden might be proportion of government spending of GDP, which IIRC is about 35% for US, and is lower than eg most European countries.
Make sure the thing you are working on is something you love.

- Brad Feld (@bfeld)

http://startupquote.com/post/4570938437
VAT works when you have a small country, but in a Federal system where states and cities have different needs it just wouldn't work.
TechStars Seattle, TechStars Boston, TechStars Boulder ;) Seedcamp is fantastic as well
FCPX will be $299 from the App Store in June.
There were a lot of questions and concerns about this (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2380567) in the original post on why LSVP gives away money, office space, etc. in exchange for no equity. John Vronis - who runs the program gives a really good explanation of this here.
They mention music startups. Is Grooveshark profitable?
Hi Tony!

I've got to agree with the other people here that it feels a little too much like those scammy "You have won a free iPad" banner ads all over the place or those weird, "where does my info actually go" Facebook quizzes.

I like the idea of using trivia as another social media outlet. Is there some way to combine the social/group aspect of groupon and living social with your trivia game? For instance - 300 people got the trivia quiz correct, so now everybody gets 20% off coupons for the product - 500 correct, everyone gets 30% off and so forth? Give people some incentive to spread the trivia quizzes around.
There certainly are a few (at least) pain points with Facebook, even for "normal" users. Spam, for one. Something that makes it a little more accessible could take off, but a competing browser may not solve the pain points.
Somewhere especially "untech" to put your tech dollars?
If you're interested in applying to TechStars NYC email me: j@onswipe.com . Happy to answer questions.
That is very low for a junior software engineer. I would ask for 75k but be OK with taking less for a "trial" period of 3-6 months.
Lightspeeds summer incubator has the best of both worlds you get space to work on your venture and money to live off of while you're out enjoying CA.
I tell them that recursive code is rarely better than iterative code

As a general statement, this is wrong. Recursive code is almost always better than imperative code in languages designed to encourage recursion -- I'm thinking of functional languages here, of course. Please qualify your statements to your students, lest they get the idea that it is a problem with recursion as a principle rather than a problem with the language they're working in.
There are smart meters that let the utility have some control over when air conditioning and other large appliances (washers etc.) are powered on. I think it would be pretty easy to maliciously turn on those devices when the utility sends the command to turn them off, e.g. crank up the A/C and spin up the dryer when power is already in high demand.
Nice. Avid must be nervous.
Might this have born from the "you can do anything..." mentality that parents have been telling their kids for the 80's and 90's children? FYI, I am one of those. Though I was fortunate that my parents taught me also how to work hard, think smart, and be a realist.

I agree with you on most points. But what to do about it? It seems that better parenting would be the place to start. Instead of sending kids to college/university when they turn 18, have them: travel, come to work with parents/friends/family, dine on the Khan Academy, start a business, get a job, have kids, volunteer, watch TV, do nothing.

This sounds vaguely familiar with what you do after college and could be better for you. In my current position there are two gents that do the same thing as me, have more experience, and get paid about 30K more, and are 15 years older than me. They never received a BS or similar level education. While I went to school for 4.5 years and spent 120K in the process. Though I feel my education from RIT was well worth it and regret none of it. It is all about how you do with what you have.
Officer pay is crap. An O1 makes 15k more than an E1 for the first 2 years. And someone that can become an officer should hit E-4 within 2 years at which point the gap is around 800$ a month. Considering the time it takes to become an officer it would probably take him 7+ years to make up that 60K bonus.

PS: An O3 with 10 years exp is making less than 70k / year.
I'd assume vast majority is from goog.
I am not sure I agree with this idea. Does that mean we all stay the same forever? What if I work extra hard and others are slacking? Are they all really the same skill level to begin with?

Sounds great that we all make the same until someone is working harder or less hard than someone else, then it will be a sore spot.
I went to a private high school, and there were two tracks: the college prep track and the college-isn't-for-me track. There wasn't really any pressure to go to college if you already had other plans for your life.
Look up the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007. After 10 years of working in public service where you have made 120 payments toward the loan, they will discharge the rest of it. There's always the military.

http://studentaid.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/students/english/PSF....
Foursquare is something that became wildly popular at the same time smart phones were becoming more and more ubiquitous. It is a cool sort of "Hey check out what my new phone can do" kind of tool.

As smart phones are becoming more the standard and less the shiny-new-thing, though, Foursquare and the like are turning out to not actually provide that much value, and are losing their stickiness.
Do not mooch off your girlfriend. Doing so will only take your existing problems with being financially responsible and inject them into your relationship. If you can figure out a way to pay back the money, pay it back. If you can't, don't prolong the process and drag your personal relationships into it. Be honest with the people you care for about your situation but avoid borrowing from them.

Other than that, I think I am on the same page with Duff. You have a responsibility to your children, whether you have them already or not.
I'm glad Apple is continuing to work hard on their software offerings, given that they have slightly less incentive to do so than a company such as Adobe.

I'm just hoping to see the same kind of love for Logic Studio sometime soon, a lot of the older synths could do with some UI love, and the app does suffer from having multiple layers of UI (sub-views with their own set of dropdown menus, etc).
I was a gifted student who dropped out of high school to go to college early. I was awarded scholarships totaling around $70,000 and borrowed roughly the same amount of money to attend one of the ludicrously expensive private colleges you hear so much about.

Now, I loved college, and it certainly did a lot for me. But would I be better off today if someone had offered me the same money on the same terms to start my own business? Almost certainly.
Latest stackoverflow blog post also shows that site declining on compete.com, despite all other analytics showing it growing.

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/04/stack-exchange-traffic...