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Think of every other job in the world where people cut corners and slack and get corrupt. Everyone from the guy who has to flip burgers to brain surgeons. Now imagine them with the ability to completely screw up your life at their whim, from arrest to prosecution to judging.

Law enforcement is a massive, for-profit industry. Everyone is out to improve their arrest/prosecution record. If you can't afford to defend yourself, you are an easy target. Even if you win, you still lose for having to go through the process.
Very nice idea. It's the sort of thing I'd use if it were cross platform. But for people just on OSX (and there's nothing wrong with targeting just that market for the moment) it looks great!
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"I get as much pleasure watching my bank account grow as I do from buying things or taking trips"

Pleasure from amassing wealth or things is misplaced. It's a dangerous addiction to nothing. Work on that before you lecture the frugal about being cheap.
Happily, I think we can agree to agree!
I'm in a state of disbelief that this is the top article on HN right now.

Reading this article made me feel like I was shopping in the discount aisle of the pop-psych megalo-mart. This article is cheap shoes. It is poorly written, contains numerous abuses of the English language, and aims low at an obvious insight; the comments have been an order of magnitude more insightful. The author utterly misunderstands the meaning of the main thing he impugns: Frugality. Sorry, but this is a cheap knife with a flimsy blade.
They cannot. It is simply impossible to prove that a given algorithm behaves well for all inputs (that is to say for all memory states). You can show that it works as desired for a subset of the problem and infer from there that it will most likely work for other inputs as well.

But you cannot prove it perfectly. You can sometimes strictly prove an algorithm is correct, but that still leaves your implementation, your compiler, your physical machine and a myriad other things in question.
I posted the link. Yes I subscribed to the problogger and found this story to be inspirational and posted it for this reason.

I had no idea that problogger would be met wich such an furious amount of contempt. I will refrain from ever posting a link from them again.
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It's the same text as the other story on here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2559274, linking to

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/grubbs-stor...
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Pretty interesting! I also happened upon this today:

https://github.com/unconed/TermKit

It's a new command-line GUI.
A friend's uncle gave some very abrupt advice which has stuck with me. "There are people who figure out ways to save money and there are people who figure out ways to make more money."
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I posted the link, I don't know if it was gamed, but if so I was certainly not involved in it.

I am surprised about the amount of upvotes myself, but the story is quite inspiring, independent from who wrote it, or on which domain it is hosted.
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This one's written by Steven Levy.
He was chatting with them, they weren't making any demands until they came back and insisted on the ipad.

When a cop starts chatting with you, your first question to yourself should be "why"? Then, don't volunteer reasons why.
Perhaps there are too many laws...
How long have Australian police been in the habit of reading suspects their Miranda rights (or are they required to)? I'm really curious how that made it from our law to theirs.
I think the disconnect here is your use of the term frugal. In the US (at least the south) every time I've ever heard anyone say they were frugal they meant they were cheap. They would buy the cheapest possible thing and use it well past the point it was presentable. I've even heard such people claim the cheaper thing must be better quality because it's cheaper. Sadly, I'm not even exaggerating.
Agreed. Another good way of looking at it is that managing your spending should be like managing any other finite resource, like time.

No one really thinks it makes sense to save your time by not spending time on anything at all. You want to be frugal with your time -- you save it in order to splurge on the things that matter and will give you the most benefit/productivity. I think it's the same with money -- cheapness is a mentally lazy way to save money, frugality is a smarter way.

As a side note, I've never understood the obsession with making food purchases your main source of money-saving. The idea of "cheap calories" seems so misguided when you take into account that, down the line, those diabetes and heart disease treatments will be anything but cheap. Not to mention what you lose in productivity with the mental and physical sluggishness that comes from eating crappy, fake food.

I'm all for ramen-profitable, but I'll pass on the ramen. If only "3 year old shoes and grass-fed steak profitable" had a better ring to it.
What's the deal with John Morrow's posts today? First the one on Problogger, now this one. And again finishing with stupid imperative:

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I totally agree. The "make money blogging" formula is akin to a pyramid scheme: a long-tail, vastly heavily skewed space where a few make real money and the vast majority make almost nothing.

This doesn't make money blogging per se: he makes money telling other people HOW to make money blogging (assuming he makes any money at all). It's some meta-blogging dodge selling the easy-life dream.

Trying to make money as a blogger is a long shot: you'd be a damn sight better off waiting tables imo.
Or you can make sure nobody can access your data. Truecrypt, anyone ?
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That should be Queensland police, not Australian.
Fantastic, just what I've been looking for!
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One reason his article resonates with me is because everything chosen as examples are quite personal and practical: Shoes. Bedding. Tools. Hygiene.

Were he arguing that we should all purchase the newest kitchen gadgets, technical life improvement fads, or whatever, I would agree.
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> It is simply impossible to prove that a given algorithm behaves well for all inputs (that is to say for all memory states).

No, it's not. People write proofs of algorithms all the time (see the Cormen Rivest book for several examples).

This belief stems from a misinterpretation of Rice's theorem ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%27s_theorem ), which says that you can not, in general, create a Turing machine that gives a yes or no answer to any particular property of an input algorithm. That does not, however, mean that you cannot prove particular properties of algorithms for particular algorithms.
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> the questions are biased in favor of a `theory` person over a `practice` person.

Reminds me of a phone-interview I had with Adobe for a Python job. The guy at the other end of the line asks me to sort of implement an algorithm, on the phone, I ended up solving his problem using a dictionary, getting its keys and then sorting it. That of course wasn't what the guy wanted, but it solved the problem.
No, it's like picking up a $20 in the gutter.
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Shows that you really got Statistics. With so many people who go through the hiring process of Google every day, there just must be a good number of very bad and strange experiences, resulting from even a small and very unlikely set of coincidences.
We for sure don't know enough about the data to confidently say Googles hiring process is good or bad.
Sounds like you're a "frugal" person who got offended at this (correct) message.

>Also, a downside of 'nice stuff' is you have to lug it everywhere.

What on earth are you talking about? If you buy a cheap generic $200 17" laptop you'll have to lug it around just as much as a nice MBP. The difference is; you'll have to replace the cheapy about 10 times in the lifetime of my MBP.
Looks rather neat, and it's a good idea. I think the issue for me would be taking the time to update it. I use Jefit on android whilst working out to replace paper and pen for recording exercises, weights, reps etc. It would be good if you had a mobile client that would let me record my exercises whilst working out that fed into Fitocracy. If you wanted to be more advanced, so you could even make it two way - EG alerts popping up that say "2kg more and you unlock badge XX", "500m more and you get to level YY".
Another "shitty web interface tool" for sprites:

http://spriteme.org/

Runs as a bookmarklet.
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I don't see the correlation between expensive footwear and comfort.

For me the difference between good shoes and bad shoes is desperately wanting to sit down after a an hour on my feet and being able to walk for 8-10 hours without really feeling it. And while far from all expensive shoes are comfortable, I've yet to find a pair of comfortable shoes for less than $120, and my $350+ hiking boots are pure magic and somehow make even the hardest hike under the heaviest of loads so much easier.

As for beds, you're not unconscious while you're sleeping, you're sleeping, and not all sleep is equal. Sleeping in a comfortable bed means I wake up far more refreshed and with far less stiffness and muscle pain, than sleeping exactly the same amount of time in an uncomfortable bed.
I agree in principle but disagree is specifics. Saying enough is enough will get you nowhere. The government will ignore whatever voice opposes it and do what it wants. And what are you going to do? Vote them out? By voting for the other wall-street backed, lobbyist owned stooge party? The big game is clearly rigged. And "the people" don't seem to have enough money and/or guns to change things. But maybe I'm wrong.

I would express the underlying sentiment that I agree with as follows: the rule of law is only as strong as the belief that the legislature, executive and administration places in it.

At the end of the day laws are just words on paper. It's our belief in them that makes them real. And there is less and less belief in them every day. And unfortunately the example shown, at least by many ex-colonies, is once the rule of law starts to slide it is a steady, self-fulfilling decline into bloodshed. I sure hope things can be turned around before such things, but I am far too cynical to believe in fairy tales. But I do so want to be proven wrong.
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This one I have actually used and is not so "shitty" - but still the same problem of deployment, but thanks for reminding me :)
I think you misunderstood the intent of the author. He doesn't advocate buying things that you don't need, he wants you to save that money so that you can buy quality where quality matters.
There are two points here - the practical one (don't buy cheap stuff, you save money but it costs you time because it doesn't work as well, breaks and causes more grief than it's worth) and the mental one (because you're worth it).

The first one is fine and bang on the money, but are people actually getting their sense of self worth from the quality of their nail clippers or having pot pourri in the bathroom? Seriously?

If that's really the case then I'd suggest that people look at the underlying issue of why this is rather than papering over the cracks by buying nice stuff. The idea that your self worth comes down to your stuff is horrible and should only be true in the world of advertising and marketing.
Steven Levy put a ridiculous amount of time and effort into researching this article, and I think it shows. He really immersed himself into the whole experience--for months! In some ways, it felt like he was a part of the class, working alongside us as we worked to build our companies.

This kind of real journalism is something that I didn't think existed any more, at least not in the tech world. But after watching him work, and seeing his process, I think it's just a damn shame how rare his kind of journalism is.

Didn't mean for this to turn into a puff comment, but I have to admit the whole production was quite impressive.
That's a very unnatural way to read the sentence.

Bill's role is at the board level these days. He's not actively involved in the day-to-day running of the company.

But a decision of this magnitude is, without a doubt, a board-level decision. And there, at the very highest level possible, Bill was a strong proponent, he says.

And somehow you read this as him not being fully behind it?
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Counter-example: I got an offer from Google 10 years ago and I turned it down in part because the hiring process was awful.
This is why my next phone will be compatible with Whispercore (http://whispersys.com/whispercore.html) and hopefully my next Tablet too.

This is also why I automatically encrypt all of my incoming email with my public pgp key on the mail server. So any mail sat on my phone/laptop/server is encrypted with my password protected private pgp key (https://grepular.com/Automatically_Encrypting_all_Incoming_E...)

I'm in the UK, so unfortunately they can demand that I give up my encryption keys and passwords and charge me if I choose to refuse, but at least it will slow them down enough so I can get a lawyer involved. And at least I have the choice of refusing.
> and makes no effort to understand that many people cannot afford the quality goods the author can

A study done years ago found that the reason poor people stay poor is because they always buy the cheapest option so any money they save up ends up getting used right away to replace something. A never ending cycle of buy cheap/replace broken cheap stuff.

>For example, I use to drive sports cars and convertibles, but now I drive cheap econo-boxes. Why? They tend to be more reliable, less expensive per mile to maintain,

The point of buying quality is that it is cheaper to use and maintain. I think you're doing an apple/orange comparison here. Your sports cars were probably on the low end (and the quality end is probably just not attainable by working class people) while your "cheap econo-boxes" are probably higher on the quality scale for their class. You weren't being cheap here.

I know plenty of people who do go cheap with cars: they buy old used cars so they can do the repairs themselves. And every weekend that's exactly what they're doing: repairs. If they ever stopped and counted up their costs in time, parts and eventually replacing with another clunker they could probably lease a BMW cheaper.
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At here, all gadgets are below $ 1 and free shipping! Incredible, but the price I am very interested in it, so cheap, possible?
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I posted the link.

I want to apologize to everyone who I infuriated by posting this link. I thought it to be a truly inspirational story. I didn't take interpret the message of the post as: "Now buy my product!"

I understood the message as: "Now work hard to achieve your goal. You can reach your paradise, just don't give up!"

I know that problogger is a commercial website and they are selling stuff, but so is apple.com, google.com and many other websites. (Note: I am not saying a link to problogger is the same thing as link to apple.com. I am saying that many links online have a commercial background)
I believe people are aware of this and can be trusted to filter obvious marketing messages.

It would be nice to have some kind of list of blogs you are not supposed to link to, I really had no idea this domain would be frowned upon.
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Indeed, and I think that's what the author was saying too.

One example: Craftsman Hand Tools. They have a lifetime guarantee, so provided you don't lose them, you're done buying screwdrivers and wrenches for life.

True story. I walked into Sears with a broken socket wrench.

Sears guy: "Wow. What happened to that?"

Me: "Well, I had a bolt that really didn't want to come loose, so I had a six foot cheater bar and I was bouncing my whole weight on it when suddenly it exploded."

Sears guy: "Yeah, that would do it. Let me see what I can do..."

[check in the back]

"Well, we don't have that model in stock, so here's a new one from our Pro line. It's a bit more expensive, but it's probably a bit stronger too. Good luck with that bolt."

I've had that same conversation on 3 different occasions, each with ludicrously mis-used tools broken entirely through my foolishness. All replaced for free with a smile.
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I am actually in the process of writing a self-help book called "How to write a best-selling self-help book", containing all the elements such as writing fake success stories people can relate to, selling a general dream, making it seem attainable, intersperse amusing anecdotes that make people more drawn to the idea, etc.

The book will actually use all of those hints itself, e.g. "this reminds me of the time I wrote a self-help book in the jungles of Indonesia, where I lived for twenty years as a marine biologist."
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The Google speed team (who I think are behind SPDY) are also looking to build spriting support into their WebP image format. I would presume that a single large image would potentially compress better than multiple small images, particularly if the format is designed for this use case.

Obviously the two improvements aren't necessarily linked, but in the short term they're going to be mostly used together when Google controls both ends of the connection.
This 'job shopping cart' thing is interesting to me, as is your desire to 'let Google match the skills up with a set of jobs', because basically I had the complete opposite experience when (successfully) applying for an internship with Google (Europe Middle East Asia (EMEA), btw, not American).

I was essentially unable to reply for anything other than "Software Engineer Intern". They took my resume, and a cover letter (which I am fairly sure was never read.) I then had two telephone interviews, after which I received an email asking me to choose two interests from a list of about two dozen (which was not an easy task!). From there, I was placed in a "pool" of possible candidates, and I believe that teams from within Google would browse through the pool and find a candidate they liked. Myself, I was in the pool for two and a half months, and had pretty much given up on getting anything when I suddenly heard back that I had a place.

So, it might be different for "real" jobs with them, but in the case of my internship they did exactly a skill-set matching (in a way), and there was no "job cart".
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Budgetary triage and procedural gridlock appear to have gone from a chronic to an acute problem. Do you think this has lead to a culture of reactivity instead of a results-based one? I'm thinking of things like sentencing economics, indifference curves and suchlike. Same name at gmail, if you'd prefer.
You're right, but Intel is working on it.. One major problem so far is that Intel didn't have ANY SoC's, and no-one wants to ship a 5W chipset next to the processor on their tablet. Their future SoC's might change that, but it's still unclear how much demand there is for their chips.

The big difference with Intel's approach and ARM's approach: with ARM you can license the core and build your own SoC, which means there are many different SoC's to choose from for handset manufacturers. Being limited to just the chips Intel chooses to produce won't be very attractive, especially as you loose a very nice way of product differentiation. I wonder how handset manufacturers will work with that.

If there's going to be competition between ARM and Intel on this scale, they'll probably both have their own pro's: ARM is very customizable, up to the point where you can choose your own FPU next to all the other stuff you put on an SoC. Intel might have the advantage of power consumption and speed if they get their act together, and will be able to use smaller manufacturing processes earlier (11nm), but you'll have to use Intel's SoC, which so far don't exist, are unproven and probably will never offer the freedom ARM SoC's have.
Did you mean to not use a VM for the test client, or did you mean that testing performance of a VM is tricky?
There is no "obligatory time." It is just the benefits package that they would have to forgo should they choose to leave their acquirer.