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That may be true, but it's not a solution. Personally, I want to live in a world where law enforcement is the ally, not the enemy. And if this is not possible, that's the bigger problem.
Law enforcement is tasked with enforcing the laws. Until there are no laws on the books that you disagree with or that could be used to suppress you, then you can never claim them as an ally. More like a fair-weather friend.
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The arc90 readability bookmarklet fixes it for me.
Interestingly, I started writing an application for Windows Mobile 6.5 a few years ago that used IM methods of texting people. At that time SMS messages were expensive (10p a message) and I wanted to avoid these costs. It wouldn't have adopted very well though as at the time no other smart phones existed (on a large scale). I thought then that the celluar networks were antiquated and would become redundant.

In saying that though I still could not find the link between Microsoft and their intentions with Skype, it's kind of obvious and equally exciting when you read this article.

I really hope it does pan out as the writer suggests, the only people this hurts are the carriers really and they have stung the customer for long enough.

I remember when mobiles first started, costs of making a call were 60p a minute, there were reports that the costs were so over inflated that the carrier was making around 50p a minute profit. I have no moral stance in seeing them get hurt in all of this.
Yeah, you have to be smart about it really. To me, the quality different between the super cheap mattress and the $500 ones is big. For the $500 to $1000 jump, not so much. Same with chairs, the worst office chairs are terrible and going to leave you with pain. The mid range ones to the top just aren't as big a difference.
I applied once in 2008. My recruiter was very friendly and did a great job. (I met him and another one at a presentation, and only 3 days later I had 2 onsite interviews). However, one interviewer didn't like me. When we had the open questions, he directly asked me, if the only reason I would like to work at google was because of the money. He clearly had already judged me.
Then after 12 days, I got a call from someone from google from Ireland, which I didn't know, telling me that it was a very difficult decision but they wouldn't offer me a job, but I could reapply in 2 months! Naturally, I didn't do that.
I still occasionaly get emails from google recruiters, but I decline.

I joined another compnay after that and did quit the job 3 months later to start my own company. If I would have joined google, I might have never done this if I would be for google. Who knows. I couldn't be happier today.
And I'm probably as biased in the interviews today ("get things done"), as google was when they were interviewing me.
It's not meant to be taken literally. If you take "less is more" literally you'd end up living in a cave; of course that's not the intent of the saying.

It's not a mistake to spend a little extra for something you need. This idiom is designed as a counter-argument to people who buy cheap stuff and boast about how they "saved" money by buying cheap crap that doesn't work well and causes you headaches.
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Another thing not touched on, when you are buying the cheapest you can find you are often buying the product made from the lowest quality materials and assembled by the cheapest workers in the world often in terrible conditions.
I think Bangkok hits most of your bullet points. You could find a nice apartment with fitness, pool and a maid for 60% of what you're paying now. Most of the nicer places will want a year contract (and might whine if you're not a resident) but shorter term apts are certainly available.

You can have a decent dinner for two for US $40 / $80 with wine. The French food here is so-so, the Italian and Japanese top notch. Chinese is good (not great). The Korean is great. They really never got American food here. If you don't want to spend, you can eat a couple of good bowls of noodles for $3.

Internet access is decent. I get 8Mb/s (actual speed) for around $30 / month. Mobile is a different story. They never made the transition to 3G here so speeds are bad. There is one carrier that unofficially supports 3G (they get around the law by running a permanent trial in Bangkok) but even that is pretty slow. I still use my iPhone to look stuff up, but the experience isn't great.

Cars are somewhat expensive (compared to the US). Sport bikes are insanely so (a Street Triple is taxed 100%, any BWM 200%). Mac prices are on par with the US (which IIRC would be more attractive than UK prices).

If you're not broke they're pretty easy going about immigration. You can live here for well over a year as a tourist as long as you follow the rules.

It's not all roses though. The city is congested. It's damn hot most of the time (unless it's raining like the world is ending). For a slight increase in cost, you could move to an island though. Then you get to live in paradise.
Article directly contradicts the definition of frugality, talking about being cheap instead.
It should be noted that CSS sprites are in general not a new idea. It is a common practice used by most front end developers for the last 4-5 years or so.

However, they are often hand crafted, but there have been in existence many tools that try to do the same thing as "spritemapper" (google results, there may be better ones out there):

- http://spritegen.website-performance.org/

- http://csssprites.com/

- http://css-sprit.es/

- http://csssprites.org/

But most of them are shitty web interface tools and not very well suited for a scriptable developer environment.

This is why I like this implementation. It seems nice, I'll probably try it on my next project.
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I agree. Cheapskate != frugal.
One of the keys in all of this is differentiating between "cheap crap", "cheap crap with a big price tag", and "expensive but worth it". I recently went shoe shopping. I was looking for a pair of comfortable, casual shoes. What I came across were:

$50 bunch-of-choices, made in China

$150 Boss/Diesel/etc, made in China

$225 Mephisto, made in France

$325 Ferragamo, made in Italy.

There is one obvious "wrong" choice here, yet it's the one that many people end up with when they think they're going to "buy something nice".
I understand your skepticism regarding spending extra money, but I do believe that "expensive" can often be "cheap". But it very much depends on your level of usage for the product in question.

To clarify hasenj's point about the more expensive thing being "worth 10x more", imagine that an expensive couch will last you 10 times longer than the cheap one (in addition to being more comfortable), but it will cost you twice as much. If owning a couch is an essential part of your desired lifestyle, then buying the more expensive couch is just the logical choice.

Of course, the real question is whether or not you really need couch? This is obviously a matter personal preference, but your present decision-making should incorporate your future preferences as well. There is often a lot of uncertainty in gauging your future level of need/want for a given product, which makes this a tricky game.
I use Eclipse and CDT. Really comfortable although Eclipse has a bit of a steep learning curve.

As for hardware, you'll have to be more specific about you want to do with it.

edit: now that I come to think of it, have a look at http://code.google.com/p/micropendous/. I don't know why not more people use USB for microcontroller programming. It's a really easy system to work with and you support more hardware over USB than through Arduino shields and at a fraction of the cost. Bluetooth, Ethernet (CDC), keyboards/mice, and Audio devices can all be picked up from places like dealextreme for mere dollars (including shipping:), and the protocols are all well-documented standards.
Funny that you ask this. I'm currently working on a solution to your question. Feel free to contact me at andrew [at] amccloud.com
The problem I foresee with the "cheap/er" places that you mentioned is that they tend to suffer from infrastructure problems. This includes net connectivity/speed, powercuts, healthcare among other things. Be sure check that out thoroughly before you make a commitment.

Some places in Asia that I think will suit your criteria: Singapore, Okinawa. But they aren't exactly cheap.

Good luck.
What version of IE is this?
Is it hard to build a web app that makes $1000 a month?
You don't have to be well-to-do to afford something a little better than the absolute cheapest possible sh*t every now and again. What this article is really about is electing to allocate more money to important items if possible, rather than being pennywise and pound foolish.
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How can you tell that it's being downvoted? (And yes, I do miss the points next to comments or other, better means to filter for useful comments)
I disagree.

I find this ode to consumerism quite distasteful. Sure, buy quality items if you can afford them, they'll often be worth the investment - but choosing to be frugal because of difficult financial circumstances is a good thing.

Most people don't need half of what they buy.

As for 'being fugal makes you a loser'; I think if the choice is being seen as a loser by the author of the article, and being broke and / or in debt - I'd definitely choose the former.

I'd possibly understand if this kind of rationalisation came from a government wanting its citizens to spend their way out of recession. Coming from a free thinking individual, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Being cheap just for the sake of being cheap/frugal if the cost is not a constraint is not wise and often times produces little to negative return. Additionally, if the price tag is the only thing you are looking at and considering when buying something, you are most likely overlooking equally important costs down the road.

It seems people who are frugal/cheap fall in to a few categories:

* Little income and need to maximize runway

The best way to maximize your runway in this case is to reduce monthly/repeated expenditures, especially food and housing. Being frugal here is not only logical, it's a must.

* Saving for the long-term

Although you will net a bit of money this way over the really long-term, it's far more efficient and gratifying to figure out a way to disconnect your income from the the amount of time that you put in to making that income (e.g. making a smart investment with a high rate of return) in order to maximize your savings. Most people simply do not spend enough to see large savings through being frugal, at least not enough to significantly change their economic standing.

* Gaming factor

Some people just like the gratification of having gamed the system, which is understandable.

* Mental cobwebs

It's often the case that people who grow up poor are far more price conscious despite their current economic standing.
If it is a scam, it is still one of the better "you can do it, too" stories that makes it on the front page of HN on a daily basis. Why does this one get so much more flak? Because the guy promotes writing, not coding?
The Phidget RFID thingie comes with a code library that's very easy to use, supports many OSes and networked connections to devices connected to remote computers.

http://www.phidgets.com/products.php?category=14
Looks good! Unfortunately the page doesn't go into much detail - does anyone know if it can handle repeating, or images that have to be at a particular edge of the sprite?
As I recall from a different interview, it's because the only reliable indicator that you are a great product person is to built, ship and maintain a great product.
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India is a great place, you wont have any issues with language and from the looks of things on HN in places like Delhi there are small hacker communities that you can get involved in if you're looking to meet those kinds of people.

You can rent a 2 bed appt for around £400 a month in a good area - perhaps this is more than you were planning on but I think it is somewhere that you wouldn't have to fight with. I found China to be an incredible place but if I am perfectly honest it is not an easy place to be - fun and eye opening but can be an absolute nightmare if you don't speak the local dialect - even if you have some very helpful local friends. That said Shanghai has a large expat community where you will be able to very easily get involved in (http://www.shanghaiexpat.com/)

BTW - I am personally going to be in Delhi a lot as I am setting up a business there and I spent a lot of time in Shanghai in the past.
If someone can moderate or provide the proper non-mobile link I'll change it.
The Queensland police have form for overzealous prosecution. A couple of years ago they arrested and charged a man with publishing child-abuse material after passing on a viral video that had already been shown on national TV: http://www.smh.com.au/news/home/technology/net-video-crime-e...

Moral of the story: don't use the Internet in Queensland.
Or like someone broke in to your home, took a photo of a painting, then copied that photo and gave it to a friend.
I don't accept your premise -- that work time is, by definition, time away from one's children.

My son is 8.

His playroom and my office are really one big room, with some furniture dividing it into separate spaces.

He comes home from school and does his homework at a small table next to my desk. I help him with it and he "checks up on" my work.

He sometimes tests websites I'm designing to make sure the UI is easy to understand.

He's done data entry for extra allowance.

He sometimes goes with me to tech conferences, and has even spoken at one.

I work while he's at school, during homework time, and after he's asleep. We play after homework is done and/or after dinner.

Sometimes he just visits with me while I work, or sets his laptop down next to mine and we have a mother-son hackfest.

Chores are easier and faster because we do them as a team.

I do enjoy the occasional break when he is at his grandparents' place for a while, but for the most part we do things together. I'm a single mother, so there's no one to pick up the slack when I'm "too busy". Also, I've noticed that I'm more productive when I make time for what's important -- being a mom.

I can be having an awful day full of interruptions and some seemingly unfixable bug, then I walk my son home from school and it all changes. For twenty minutes I turn off my phone, get outside, and walk. By the time I reach his school I've calmed down. Then we walk home and talk about his day, or the squirrels, or my neighbor's new flower bed. By the time we get back home I am surprisingly refreshed. I usually fix the bug in a flash, and have more patience with nagging clients.

You can talk about evolutionary psychology and your desire for hard data all you want -- but neither will predict the behavior of an individual, and most entrepreneurs are outliers in some way or another already. I'd never suggest that anybody can juggle building a business and child-rearing without dropping either ball, but clearly I can, so it's not out of the realm of possibility that someone else can, too.
vertr probably saw it when it was at the bottom, but it's been upvoted since. (just a guess.) But he's right. This sort of thoughtful breakdown (bromley's comment) is why I usually read the top comment before the article.
> ESATF is used to "check", so, in order to get a "full" checking, I think it should be treated like a true virus

No, it shouldn't. EICAR is a special test-case, and if it was detected heuristically then Hello, World! would also get flagged as a virus. Not helpful.

A better way to test heuristics in AV scanners would be to run a 6 month out of date antivirus program against viruses that have emerged in the last 6 months, and that is exactly what the heroes at AV Comparatives [1] do every year.

[1] http://av-comparatives.org/
I guess we will all agree that there is an outrageous error in the article. It should not be 'Terminator itself', but 'Terminator himself' rather, shouldn't it?
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If you said "based on standardized, commodity hardware-based" instead of "hardware agnostic", I'd agree.

I mean java was an effort to hardware agnostic. Windows, not-so-much. It supports versions of the "PC Standard". That's it.
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For one to have lost something, they must at one point have possessed that thing.
this reiterates the need for online collaboration innovation -- down with Google docs
You can't really have a repeating background that is a section of a sprite image in CSS, afaik, so no. That's a limitation of CSS in general, not just this tool.
For mattresses buy pocket spring or latex foam. When me and my girlfriend switched to pocket springs we literally felled asleep the first time our heads touched the mattresses ... in the middle of the day, right after we set it up in our apartment. It's incredibly comfortable.

For shoes buy some trekking shoes with goretex membrane. You'll never have wet feet in your life again. My Garmont's served me well for last 8 ears. I just had to do minor adjustment year ago because soles have rubbed off not evenly. And I am yet to find shoelaces that don't break. I think about the ones made of kevlar. Before that I was buying sneakers and leather shoes that fell apart after 0.5-1 year and had to watch out for every puddle.

For your torso buy something from Polartec, as thick as you can find. And something thin, light breathable, waterproof and windstopping to wear it when it rains. Again you'll not get wet from the rain and dry up as fast as if you were wearing only t-shirt.

Always spend money on things that make you life easier or the things you have to do more comfortable. But when you don't have idea how good are the things you consider buying are always pick cheaper ones. High price never guarantees quality. It's often even strong indicator that seller is dishonest.

Oh. And don't make stuff up and don't buy things that will require from you doing additional things.

I also almost never bring damaged things to the store to have them replaced. It's easier to toss it away and buy something else. Much less unpleasant social interaction.
Previous discussion from 5 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2547254
The number of Tony Robbins-esque rah-rah lifestyle articles here has gotten entirely out of hand lately. Seeing this at #1 on the site today makes me want to delete my HN bookmark and be done with it.
11? on Windows 7 so it's Aero-ified.

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I was hoping it was about Joanna Rutkowska :(
I would have thought the kind of people that build startups aren't always the type that would enjoy working at a company large enough to acquire them.

What's the standard obligatory time a founder has to stay with the acquiring company? How many founders stay beyond that time?
I remember the times when I used to believe stuff like this. Even subscribed for utterly useless membership once for $100 and wasted a couple of months trying to implement what the owner was suggesting. Somehow I figured out his advice was applicable only to people like him, who have large following, and not to a stranger.

Posts like this are not entirely useless because they give some basic motivation. But from that point further, there is absolutely no useful information, and no objectivity. Finally, if he had to confess the probability to achieve success following his recommended route, equals winning the lottery noone would join his course.

Finally the writing is really mediocre. Problogger stopped being useful many years ago, but I'm still surprised to see crap like this:

"You can do it.
I believe in you.
So get started.
Right freaking now."

Yeah. And you stop writing, please. Right freaking now.
I would suggest looking at your closest centre for disease control.....they often have bio-related IT needs. Forget about your inexperience because I can assure you the quality of CVs coming through the door is pretty atrocious (I'm sifting through job apps at the moment - probably 60% of the applications haven't ever even tried to code)
You know, as software developers, we're in one of the few professions where we actually can quit our jobs, move to paradise and get paid to do our thing.

But for jeebus' sake, don't quit writing software to sign up for this guy's blogging course.

Consult remotely, build products and charge money for them. Pick a paradise beach that doesn't have tall hotels on it and is therefore just this side of free to live on. Bring some savings and start small.

I know that this works because I did it. And no, I will not charge you money to tell you how to do it. Everything you need to know you can learn from the previous paragraph.

Now, if you actually want to do it, go do it.
From my experience of facebook - I'd say aggregating or having the choice of aggregating all the email would be really nice.
So instead of a So-and-so is doing X, would you like to join them?
You could have - Your friends are planning the following things this week/later this month. Reply with subject X to join in.
Perhaps I didn't phrase my comment as well as I should have. Indeed all his points apply and are excellent. As you pointed out, his focus is on testing the HTTP server for performance, rather than the actual apps running on them. The point I was trying to make is that all of the above, _plus_ additionally integration testing and app specific testing should really be done when preparing for the onslaught of a real-world deployment. Admittedly this is deliberately beyond the scope of his article.
Totally agree!

But this kind of snake oil is being sold all over the internet and I haven't seen this level of critical analysis applied to others doing something similar, but under a slightly respectable garb. Examples: Tim Ferris and his 4-hour work week/body, Gary V with his Crush it, Ramit Sethi and his Earn 1k infomercial http://earn1k.com/

He should probably right a book about blogging your way to riches by working 2hrs a week and he would be on NYT Best Seller list and an eventual Angel investor and speaker at various startup events.
These days, more and more I find that the sensible option is unfashionable. Fashion seems to disregard the practical and applaud foolishness.

I'm not talking haute couture, mind - but everyday people. Didn't get a new car? Weird. Still wearing your old shoes? Weird.

I seriously expect this trend to continue, Idiocracy-style, until utterly stupid is fashionable, like back in high school. Diesel has made a strong start.
They may be because when they were growing up studying science was their ticket to wealth,respect, and power.
Arguments, disagreements, and self correction are pillars of scientific minds.
Autocratic society in which a small disagreement can result is you vanishing, cannot possible nurture scientific minds.
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It was turning gray when I wrote that.
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