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The first duty of love is to listen – Paul Tillich
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2517822

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It sounds like your son might not have the time, energy, or desire to actually read The Goal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel)

... although I could perhaps have read that book when I was twelve or thirteen -- it is highly approachable, perhaps even by a child; if you can solve logic puzzles you can read this book -- and if I had I would have really understood modern manufacturing. This is the book that my buddy the fab manager has on his shelf.

There is a chapter of The Goal in which the protagonist literally learns about how manufacturing works by helping a Scout troop of 12-year-olds move faster on their cross-country hike. You need to go to the library and read just that chapter. Then maybe have your son read it.

If you want a detailed summary of what the book is about I can't do better than Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Constraints

(though that is way less readable than Goldratt's book) and if you want a summary of the summary it would go something like this:

Modern manufacturing is closer to your "pull" description than to "push". Everyone hates inventory of finished goods, and they hate inventory of half-finished goods even more. So the goal is to make stuff only as fast as it is being sold.

You control how fast you make stuff by controlling how much material you put into the factory at step zero. And you decide that by measuring every step in the process and figuring out the slowest step. The slowest step is the constraint. In your example, it's Employee 2. Because Employee 2 can only make 40 widgets per day, your factory can only make 40 widgets per day. This leads to a bunch of important management facts:

A) To avoid having half-finished inventory piling up on the assembly line, don't start more than 40 widgets' worth of work in a day. Anything extra will be wasted anyway. Have Employee 1 only work half the time. Or, equivalently, give Employee 1 only 40 widgets' worth of raw material each day. (In the real world, of course, every step has less than 100% yield, so maybe you start 50 widgets in order to end up with 40 widgets entering step two.)

B) If you need more widgets per day, you need not upgrade everything in the factory. You need only upgrade Employee 2. Hire Employees 2b and 2c and 2d. Or: Notice that Employee 1 is now only working half the time. Perhaps if Employee 1 was less efficient, but in a particular way that made Employee 2 more efficient, it would speed up Employee 2, which would speed up the whole factory. Have Employee 1 work part time cranking out her 40-or-so widgets and spend the rest of her time fetching coffee and tools for Employee 2.

C) Eventually you will find that you've upgraded Employee 2 to the point that he is no longer the constraint. The constraint will move. Maybe it will now be Employee 1. If so, get to work upgrading Employee 1, or making her job go faster. Or maybe you've moved the constraint completely out of the factory: You can now make more parts than your salespeople can sell and the constraint is the marketplace, in which case you need to make some commercials and attend more trade shows.
I find Avoid Comparing to true and false a little pedantic and can someone explain how it is "... bad as it's ambiguous"?
So it sounds like you use it as a last resort because of a broken scroll wheel. Isn't that an edge case?
"Patents are meant to reward original innovator not the guys who buy them in bulk and profit out of it."

Huh? Buy "buying them in bulk", the patent trolls are paying money to the original innovators. They are being rewarded. Why do you oppose innovators' right to sell their IP to other parties? It's hardly property if you can't transfer ownership.
It also prevents copy/pasting out of that field by most browsers.
If someone gets access to your computer because you walked away for a second, goes to your bank page and it autofills, they can access the site, but they can't know your password (which is generally shared between many sites), and so they can only do damage there locally for a (hopefully) brief period of time.

If it just displayed in a textbox, game over...
I agree that's one concern, but it's not entirely clear to me what the division of responsibility for those waiting-around passengers is. You might blame the passengers causing the problem, but as a passenger I also expect the airline to anticipate and work around any frequent sources of disruption. If it's something that happens often enough to actually be a problem, then it's an operational problem and they should find some way to mitigate it. For example, they could include it as a factor when evaluating pricing strategies (the likely operations-disrupting effect of certain pricing strategies), or perhaps they could handle check-in and luggage-tracking differently, or they could police their fare rules more stringently to more strongly discourage it.

But they should do something, if indeed it is a problem (I'm not sure it actually is). Creating an obvious arbitrage opportunity and then structuring your operations in a way that isn't robust to some proportion of people exploiting it wouldn't be a very responsible way to run a business.
Absolutely, thanks for your support.
Okay, good. That's the sort of thing that should've been in the submission, otherwise it's just "hey guys vote for this!".
But do you invite other people, or have some way of introducing others to it? That's kind of what I'm getting at: regardless of the activity, there's a social disconnect for getting people involved if they're not already in a circle of friends--and the few circles I was in didn't intersect at all.

It's not necessarily an insurmountable gap but it's enough to intimidate most people who aren't already outgoing, or who are accustomed to a friendlier town.

I grew up in Redmond, went to college at WSU, and moved into Seattle in 2002. For the longest time after that, when walking into a bar or show, I had to keep persuading myself that people were not going to point and scream at me like Donald Sutherland in the 70's Body Snatchers movie.
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Yes: Pingdom
Is NIF getting close to breakeven in terms of laser input energy, energy generating the lasers, or thermal energy to power a turbine to power the lasers? Because, useful power generation requires ~30-100x breakeven in terms of laser energy and last time I checked they where several orders of magnitude from that standpoint.
I'll put my hand up for that mistake. I think the word I was looking for was "redundant", and not "ambiguous". Following the other concept of prefixing your booleans with "can" "has" and "is", your variable names should be self explanatory.

if (isSelectable === true) { ... }

versus:

if (isSelectable) { ... }

It's a shorthand method, similar to why you would use int++; instead of int = int + 1;
I think chopsueyar was being sarcastic.
I think the idea is that if you use single quotes for strings, you don't have to escape the double quotes that are often found in html. '<p id="foo">something</p>'

But the same goes for something like "you can't do that"

I guess it just depends what you don't want to escape. For Google, the more probable scenario was probably the former.
Its better to link directly to the source, not a blog. http://taitems.github.com/Front-End-Development-Guidelines/
In all honesty that was just my experience, I'm sorry for saying exactly how it went. Sorry Facebook lovers and please don't take everything so seriously. :)
Regarding auto-completing the country field, most modern web browsers allow you to enter text in a drop-down field, and they will auto-complete for you. (Although last I checked, IE had the annoying tendency to simply choose an entry starting with each character you typed.)
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Agree. And the number of followers for a given project appears to be wrong as well.

http://www.github.com/aantix
The cost of $25 looks a bit more believable compared to similarly specced devices like the VT8500/WM8505 series <$100 netbooks/tablets[1], or the FriendlyARM Mini2440 which sells on ebay for $98 as a bells-and-whistles development board.

The board he's built would have lower BoM cost than either of those. And if he's manufacturing them in similar quantities then maybe he can get the cost down.

If he's looking at production runs of similar numbers to wireless routers then I think $25 is completely believable, as cheap end wireless routers approach that cost new now.

[1] http://s.dealextreme.com/search/wm8505

[2] http://www.friendlyarm.net/products/mini2440

[3] http://cgi.ebay.com/320583793422
False dichotomy. If there are really that many people who want to fly EWR->CDG, but don't due to cost considerations, the airlines will add more flights to fill extra demand caused by lower prices.
Those are some interesting observations. I've observed that the "go-to guy" can backfire as well. People have used it to their advantage, but others have been stuck doing the difficult, annoying, or otherwise undesirable things and not promoted because they are seen as someone who's willing to shovel the manure.

Being willing to stand up and take on jobs is important, but one really does need to communicate with management to move up at BigCo, which is what the article seems to be directed toward.
I think Paul Allen would heartily agree with that description.
They are not "anonymous"... the are "Anonymous" (a proper name) or as the say in the post Anonymous Enterprises LLC (Bermuda) :)
> Anonymous Enterprises LLC

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In both cases they are right too: the people creating the messed-up market (government via drug laws) and (airlines via schedules) are creating incentives that have built-in externalities.
Note that Thrift supports HTTP as a transport.
Their own page at http://raspberrypi.org says simply "The expected price is $25 for a fully-configured system."
Thanks, I'm sorry I misunderstood your brief description.

There's no hash table here, this is just bucket sort. I don't think anyone should care about the difference between counting sort and bucket sort, though. The only thing I would mind about this is that it allocates 100x the necessary memory, but I'm sure you wouldn't actually do that when it matters.
I did that below as the first comment.

I was keen to write a foreword explaining that I am self-taught, so there are going to be shortcomings in my theory knowledge - as I never did a CS degree. It was to mitigate the shread-tearing I expected to receive in the comments section of HN ;)
I think it is clear that he is not opposing the _transfer_ of patents, but the transfer to people who's only planned use for the patent is in court
There is a ton of casual tech stuff going on in Seattle. check out http://www.seattletechcalendar.com, or (disclosure: my blog) http://fourthirtysix.com/tech-sci/

We're not lacking the meetups, the events (Seattle 2.0 awards tonight!) We're lacking the leadership and super-stars participation in the community. While I see Dave Schappell at Hops and Chops, I don't feel like others mingling with us casual masses without it being self promotional.

I want to go to some event (and Hops and Chops seems like a good venue), have a real conversation with the CTO of a startup about solving some tech or product challenge. Or I want to hear about how some CEO got started over a beer. And I want to meet another super-star who's actively looking for help.
But it's not a notstalgically shaped flash drive, it's an Atari compatible serial disk drive using microSD as cartridges.
55 Theses - evolutionary biology-recommended health practices
In essence a site for those who like their day to day health practices to start from the ground floor of a completely reductionist scientific view of the origins of modern human health. Though I suspect that everyone who really thinks that way is already practicing calorie restriction.

A digest of what this is and where it's going here:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2011/05/a-look-at-55-thes...

I think it is a pity that most researchers don't in fact write a book or two outlining their view of science, the world, and progress at some point in their career. Scientific papers are a narrow and entirely insufficient window into a larger worldview, and many scientists have very broad and ambitious visions for the future of their field and the resulting technology. Michael Rose is one such scientist, and has written a few books along the way, of which I recommend the Long Tomorrow for an introduction to his view of aging and necessary strategic directions in the development of longevity science.

My attention was recently drawn to a site called 55 Theses that goes a step further and assembles Rose's ideas in an online series of posts, videos, and small essays - and then asks "knowing this, what can we do to make a difference in our own health and longevity?"
I've got 'real' email addresses, but still use my gmail address with some clients, partially because it's one of the few things that I can be guaranteed to use at a client's office - I'm often blocked from anything except port 80 when I'm onsite. Yes yes, I can set up my own webmail, but I don't. And I'm not comfortable using google domains stuff, so I split. Probably 50% of my mail with some clients is over gmail, but I have multiple real domains, and much correspondance happens from there as well. I find some clients bounce around - they've got their 'work' email, but they exchange emails from 'home' accounts sometimes too. I don't consider them 'unprofessional' for doing so.

As someone else mentioned too, the 'have your own agreement' thing - well, I've got one, but have only used it a handful of times. More than half my projects have been with mid to larger orgs that already have their standard procedures in place. To use my own contracts either means I don't get the gig, or things will take a few extra weeks while "their people" review things, and they'll inevitably find something to complain about. They are not going to agree to resolve legal issues in my state if they're out of state, so, do I bend, or hold firm? There's no right or wrong answer - each person has different tolerance for this, and it'll probably change over time.

I understand the frustration with people just using the term 'freelancer' without really being a fulltimer - I started indieconf.com last year to address some of these issues that we all deal with, and avoided the term 'freelance' because I think it has a bad connotation. It conjures up images of the unemployed designer between fulltime jobs. Undeservedly so, perhaps, but that's what I was finding. "Independent web professional" is a bit of a mouthful, but conveys a stronger image (and encompasses more than just designers or developers).

The big danger anyone faces in hiring a 'freelancer' is that they won't necessarily stick around for the whole project, or may not be available later to provide followup support. Yes, you face the same with employees, but it's somewhat less of a threat in most cases. That was something I was surprised that the blog post didn't address (or did I miss it?).
Once you transfer your property, usually, you have very little control over how it's used.
Well written, but a little out of proportion. I doubt any one would have taken these allegations seriously.
Well, that's more or less the argument they used in Soviet Union, to convince us (soviet citizens) that the soviet system is the best. "It's what we came to after the centuries of suffering, and look how well off we are now! etc etc". And, admittedly, it did sound convincing, too.
If a tiny ARM-based Linux computer is appealing, there are a number you can buy now based on the Marvell Plug design. I use a TonidoPlug[1] with Ubuntu for an ultra-cheap backup and media server. Only uses ~5-10 watts so you can have it on 24/7 at virtually no electricity cost.

1: http://www.tonidoplug.com/
I had a few vague thoughts:

* How is it powered? I assume neither composite video or HDMI can provide power to it (which would be cool), in the photo it looks like some it's probably powered from that ribbon cable that's soldered to the through-holes on the side. Would be neat if you could power it from (say) common older mobile phone chargers.

* I wonder which ARM SoC (system-on-a-chip) it's using,and what their open source support is like.

* Neat it has GPIO (general purpose input-output pins), I wonder where they are broken out? The row of 6 full-size through-holes in the photo look good, but it doesn't look there is much additional board real-estate for making other easy-to-solder additions.

* I know from working w/ WM8505 devices that ARM9 + 128Mb RAM is a fairly sorry combination for Ubuntu. I'd be surprised if they final device isn't built on something like Debian, they still support ARM9 (Ubuntu stopped after partial support in 9.04), have lower spec requirements overall, and their 'armel' package repository is huge.
Why would i use something like this? If i want to write something quietly, i can just write it in MS Word.
1. Cost. This can be deployed in places here and abroad where computers are still not widespread in the classroom.

2. Personalization. These are cheap enough that each student could have their own, for a fraction of either iPad or OLPC.

Of course, the fact that it requires a connection to a not-cheap HDMI display mitigates both these somewhat.
Then it's a failure of the pricing strategy, developed by the airline itself, if it encourages people to make a rational choice that delays or affects other passengers.
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I have to chime in here to praise the slicehost tutorials. They are absolutely the best resource.
Java is an excellent successor to C++ and its use in Android made the platform better.
I concur! My current role you get max 4-5% pay rises, if you are lucky, and that is with a promotion.
I'm planning on moving cities soon to find better opportunities. Cannot wait to hand my resignation in.
The only way I will work at a large company ever again is on contract work.
I find the idea of a single newspaper hosting a site like WikiLeaks themselves very strange. If the WSJ receives confidential information that is of value but not on a topic they typically write about will the information still see the light of day? The great thing about 3rd party sites like WikiLeaks is that they provide the information and you decide if it's valuable or not.

I have to say that I'm not sure why I would submit info to SafeHouse instead of just posting it online myself with an anonymous blog.
Check back in a few hours.

Once the "incomplete profile" marker disappears the numbers should be correct. If they are still incorrect, could you do me a favor and send me a link to the repo in question? I'd greatly appreciate it!
I'm guessing the idea is to provide a throwback to the days when computers were more hands-on and more nuts-and-bolts (think Apple II era). If the computer itself only costs $25 and boots from MicroSD then you can let students have their own and customise them with things like soldering new connections to it, mounting it on a robot, making very simple games, etc.

developing apps for android phones?

I guess now that Android phones are coming down under $100 as well then this is becoming a possible alternative. You don't get the "nuts and bolts" aspect of it, but you do get to teach both programming & fun.
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You hit the nail on the head. Java EE programming is consolidating into Spring programming. I think it is because Spring gives you a layer on top of the app servers that finally achieves the write once run anywhere as long as you stick with Spring. That part is good but it is a shame that you need so much stuff to achieve this. I always cringe when maven pulls down all spring jars (20 or 30 ???)
Sure... but realistically, what kind of quantities is he going to pull off? And is he really going to contract out to a chinese factory? I mean, i'll get a few :) but if this is for education and nothing else.... I'll check back in a year for sure.

For now, the Trimslice is pretty exciting (and shipping, and of course in a very different world)

http://trimslice.com/web/

Thanks for the pointer to the Mini2440 -- i haven't seen that one yet.
The metric provided is based on searches for google.com on google, and doesn't represent the website's usage. Perhaps some shortcut created or UI enhancement (like autocomplete) this year helped people stop searching for the search engine itself.

Here's a query in Google Trends for the word 'google' itself:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=google&ctab=0&geo=all...
This is by far the best chair I've ever owned. After five years of daily, extended, use mine fell apart pretty significantly. I put too much weight on the left arm and it broke completely off, the lift stopped working, the armrests (the vinyl/rubber/whatever material not fabric) cracked and tore like leather where my elbows rested on it the most. Given the $800 I paid for it (ebay, with headrest) I would have liked to have it last longer however I've not hesitated to buy a new one with the fabric armrests which have managed to hold up much better than the other material. As far as the arm breaking... probably my own fault rather than any failing of the chairs design.
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I was also surprised by that. Personally, I do own both a computer and a smartphone, but I do not have the HDMI supporting TV.
If your name is even remotely "exotic" (and mine seems to be), good luck checking in online - apparently one way tickets trigger some alarm in the depths of DHS.
It gives developers a single hardware target built on open source software that can be safely modified at any level without messing with a families or schools expensive computing systems.
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This is good, but some of the advice isn't quite right. For instance "self" is a reserved keyword in JavaScript, so often people use "_self" instead. And camel casing variable names is right, unless they're constants, in which case "THIS_IS_A_CONSTANT" is more appropriate. Too nit picky?
The two thirds of the article that exposes the "rule of law" as the antithesis of a consistent logical system is quite useful. I think it accurately portrays the reality.

The author appears to hold the pre-eminence of property rights over competing rights. The result is an extremely polarized economic system. Medieval feudalism as a model legal system? Yet, we appear to be trending in that direction. When property rights take precedence, then the holders of property buy the "legal" outcomes they want, and they buy the "law enforcement" they want, and they buy the "laws" they want. Such is the author's proposal to remedy the current unrealistic expectations.

The free market proposed by Adam Smith in "The Wealth of Nations" was premised explicitly on a consistent, logical system of moral (God's) law, enforced by the Church (a.k.a. the state - far less distinct at the time). Without that premise - and the article's author takes care to destroy precisely that premise - the free market is destructive. Asymmetries in information and power create monopolies, bubbles and crashes.

So the law is inconsistent and illogical. It is good to remember this. It is good to remember that any large or long lived community can be shown to have betrayed its professed ideals. It is good to remember that historical ideals - our own as well as society's - have typically been superseded by better ones. Does that mean we should abandon those ideals, and let "the market" rule? I agree with Holmes, if only in this: "repose is not the destiny of man". Rather, one works to move toward the ideal; the failure to reach it means there is more work tomorrow. Peace, Justice and Freedom will not find a logically consistent incarnation in our lifetimes nor in our children's, yet the work must continue.