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The cost of living here in Berlin is quite low too. You may have to pay a bit more taxes, but with programmers salary you live like a king (and may have a bit happier life than a king). The salary range is somewhere between 40k-70k euros/year.

I started working here in a startup and I moved from Helsinki. It was a bit hard to get the job because I didn't know anyone and any companies. It took around six months to find a great job and I had to do everything to prove my enthusiasm and skills for the employers.

I love what I do and I'm a smart programmer but when nobody knows you, be prepared to make some extra work to convince your employers.
From Twitter:

"@thecoldgun It's like having a psycho mercenary on your side in a fight - you worry what they'll do when they're not."
That sucks that you had to pay for installation; yeah, I pointed out I already had residential service, so they wouldn't need to come out and they could just send me the modem, and that worked (I was actually surprised).

The $0 cancellation... I just asked for it, and got it. I never thought stuff like that worked, but apparently it's true: it never hurts to ask.

It may have helped that I directly contacted an account rep who a former IT-dept colleague had worked with and recommended to me. It's possible that the "so-and-so gave me your name and said you were very helpful" bit gave me better/more personalized service. Hard to say.
If anyone knows, are there command-line tools available to compile the files? I develop on Windows but primarily use Vim to edit. I'd like to be able to generate css/javascript from sass/coffeescript without having to use Visual Studio 2010.
Nice job. Looking forward to the API-enabled version.
"The Wire" is not "some TV cops and robbers show", but a complex narrative that depicts exactly the kind of situtations we're talking about (yes, it's styled as police drama, but it's much more than that).
It's cre-ape-tive commons. :D
Yeah, good point. Considering that I have to go back to the front page and I lose the "older" page 2 results anyway, it'd be far preferable to just send me to a newer page 2. Could likely pretty easily implement that with a fallback query param, so the link could be something like "?fnid=foo&startitem=31" or whatever. If the fnid is no longer valid, fall back to the startitem param.
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My point was that Samsung generally tries the new stuff.
For a game to be bigger than religion, it must take on a life of it's own that transcends the "lives" of the players.

Chain World sounds very cool, but it's lacking one crucial element, replication. An online version sounds intriguing, but would most likely need substantial tweaks to create the right incentive structure.
Hello browsers, this is how clearing history should be done
I'd love to see what the fine folks of Hacker News think about this.

Since I most work alone, I've hit upon the same dilemma several times. Unfortunately, I didn't track my effectiveness when I used one or the other approach so I don't have any hard data to contribute :-(
I prefer the former myself, but I would guess a lot of people would have more trust and faith in the latter.
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It sounds like you're implying that when someone posts something on the internet, when you're evaluating the usefulness of that information, you should ignore anything else they wrote previously. Frankly I don't care all that much about Ben's motivations behind calling out the author here, but I read both blog posts as they came out, and the lack of attention to detail in the first post definitely affected my opinion of the second post. I don't think a lack of participation in the first HN discussion means you're disqualified from participating in the second one using information from the first.
Firefox 6 uses the latest spec. So it's active in the wild already.

I don't think reverse proxies are that big a deal personally, as you as a website owner have control of that part of the system. If the reverse proxy can't deal with it, fix it so it can or use a different one or write your own.

There's certainly ISPs out there that proxy all HTTP through their own cache/proxies and fallover with previous spec websocket. Of course the alternative is just to use HTTPS.
What happened on that one day where the graph drops so suddenly?
Well, for example, an ncurses interface would be nice. That way I wouldn't need to use NX or other RDP software if I wanted to use spotify from my jukebox computer.
I thought the same thing, but ran it by my sister (a busy working mom) and she said the benefit wasn't the value of the clothes, but her time-- this system would save her from having to go shopping.
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I think you can go either way. Since your product seems to be targeted toward enterprise, one could argue that you want to sound more professional.

However, in my experience the About page is seen by about 5% of your users. So to say things clearly: it doesn't matter.

PS: I don't particularly like your company version. I'd still make it personal, but sounding like a company: "XYZ was started by John Foo...". So it's pro, and personal.
Eh, my stereo equipment didn't cost anywhere near ten grand, but I wager it can still show the difference between 160 and 320 kilobits of compressed music. From what I gathered from the op, though, it's not so much about the practical difference than the fact that he feels he's paying for something he's not actually getting - and that's something that is fair to complain about.
The implicit assumption is that the plumber is farther along in his life and has a lot more (family, home, social benefits, health, etc.) to lose than a 19 yr old in YC...
Ask: Is there an alternative UI for HN for mobile
When reading HN on mobile phone I find it pretty annoying that up/downvote buttons are so close that I regularly do the wrong action.

What's even worse, I can't change vote after that, like on Reddit.

Is there an alternative "mobile friendly" version with this problem fixed?

What do you guys use to read HN on mobiles (Android or web based)?
I personally tend to dislike people who proudly claim their ignorance about computers, usually with the underlying purpose of distinguish themselves from me, the supposedly technical rat.

I mean, I don't know jack about ancient literature or medicine, but it's not something I'm proud of, and I don't go around bragging on my ignorance for sure.

Not sure if this is the case, but it's something I noticed more than once in my daily life.
How cool, let's dump a bunch of downvotes on something because we disagree with one part of it.

The point was that it's interesting that American English treats a corporation as a single entity but British English treats it plurally (i.e. as a proxy for the people controlling it).
Looks like it. Would think you'd need a hefty server to run alot of theese monitors.. It's like, not even a wyse..
I think 15% means the number of employees to lay off, not the ratio of severance expense.
I'd preffer the first one, you are a startup so your company won't have 4 years of experience in the industry, you have. Also clients will figure out that you are a one man startup anyway.

Jason Cohen writes exactly about this question in http://blog.asmartbear.com/youre-a-little-company-now-act-li...
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Wow. You justify the death penalty on the basis of it providing incentive to the police and the prosecutors to do a better job.

Holding their children hostage would provide a really good incentive. Would you then recommend that as well?

I understand where you come from. But providing incentive does not justify murder. Even state-sponsored murder.
1. The product is targeted towards small website owners that depend on it. (ecommerce, services that charge money)

2. When the product is finished I plan to add a payment plan for some additional features. People won’t read the about page even when they want to pay for the service?

3. Yes, your pro and personal is a very good suggestion … thanks!
"Short of coming to their senses and abolishing the whole thing, we might expect that the rules for daylight saving time will remain the same for some time to come, but there is no guarantee. (We can only be glad there is no daylight loan time, or we would face decades of too much daylight, only to be faced with a few years of total darkness to make up for it.)"

Made me laugh. The whole article is very interesting, I'll never look at a print time statement in the same way again.
No, we shouldn't have to remove our old history to speed up our browser. The UI as it is now, is good (like you said, for porn). The browsers should remove the old history by themselves when needed.
Personally, I'd leave the about page as is; but I'd definitively change the main page to impersonal discourse.

"tagBeep has some unique and very useful features but there is a lot of room for improvements and I’m working on them."
Would become (something like, I'm not a native speaker):
"tagBeep has some unique and very useful features but there is a lot of room for improvements which are being actively developed"

" The app has some unique monitoring features, but it's far from where I want it to be."
Would become something similar to:
"The app has some unique monitoring features, but it's far from finished"
If you wanted to be able to mount one monitor or several on a flexible arms so you can drag it around a room, it would be good to reduce cable clutter. This is a project I've been thinking for my space.
Command line tools are also pretty vital if you're using a build server. Speaking as a Coffeescript loving developer at a Windows shop, this could be fabulous.
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"I think of non-GUI programs in the same way as I do about going camping. Some people love sleeping in a tent and getting up in the night to walk in the rain to poo in a hole they’ve dug behind a tree. I spend a considerable portion of my income on a house with a heating system and three flushing toilets, so there’s no bloody way I’m going camping."

This became true over time for me. My attitude to camping has changed as I've aged. I used to enjoy roughing it but now I prefer not spending time putting my tent up when I arrive somewhere and taking it down in the morning. I used to enjoy coding with text editors and the shell but now I like the comfort of my IDE.

It's good to know how to put up a tent though, 'cause you never know where you'll end up.
Maybe one of the jurors found it unlikely that she visited the page about chloroform 84 times and that subtly affected his or her perception of the prosecution's case.
Sorry, I'm stupid, of course :) I blame it on the lack of morning coffee.
Let me clarify my position, since you seem to wish to misinterpret.

I think life imprisonment is a really bad thing to have happen to you, only marginally better than death. I'm honestly not sure I'd prefer life imprisonment to death at all, in fact. I also don't object to either one as punishment for the worst criminals.

That's my moral stance.

On to practicalities: lots of people hate the death penalty and will devote effort to making certain the wrong person is not executed. These people will not devote the same effort to preventing wrongful life imprisonment. Similarly, a wrongful execution is an outrage, whereas wrongful life imprisonment barely makes the news.

Thus, I see the choice as the following: some number of wrongful executions, or some larger number of wrongful life imprisonments. I prefer the smaller number of people who wrongfully lose their life.
"If you're moving away from the US you'll see a significant drop in salary though"

Depends on whether you're moving from popular dev centers such as Silicon Valley or New York City, and of course it also depends on where you're moving to. My guess is wages here in Denmark should be able to match or beat US wages outside of Silicon Valley and New York City.
Its a keyword, but its not needed (as its not needed in many modern languages) but many rubyists I've worked with said that it was a nice feature that the return keyword was unnecessary and did not use it.
Why, oh why, is the most important text obfuscated in an image? I wanted to pass this on to a friend who's just had a baby, copying the "How it works" paragraph into the email. But there's no text, it's a JPEG! There's not even any ALT text, which means that my visually impaired friend won't be able to use her screen reader on your main page. Don't use JPEGs for text!
Among academics, the convention is to use "we" when writing papers irregardless of the number of authors. It's half custom and half a matter of maintaining professional distance.

Use "we" even if everyone can see that it's a single-author paper. It communicates that it is a company and not just your personal services, which is especially important if it's just your services for now. You can still come back and talk about the exciting thing you're personally working on as a founder.

In either case, pick the singular or the plural and stick with it. Mixing "I" and "our" like you currently are is a matter of grammar rather than style.
Mork, as in what a netscape engineer once called ""...the single most braindamaged file format that I have ever seen in my nineteen year career"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mork_(file_format)
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Totally agreed, in fact I was about to suggest a similar idea.

For those who live in Tokyo, this might be interesting, but I want the one without such a superficial academic style:
http://www.academyhills.com/library/index.html
Isn't it strange that when somebody looks for something 84 times, that a prosecutor sees that as more important as someone looking for it only once? So a stupid person who needs to read something 84 times, or whose dog eats his printed version 83 times, is more likely to 'have done it' as the person who understands it on the first try or doesn't have a dog?
Better: store all history, but search (from Omnibar) only the recent NNNN items.
It's definitely a good question. You need to consider the pros and cons and decide for yourself.

If you present it as a company, people will be much harsher with their criticism and expectations. If you present it as a person (yourself) people will be more lenient, but at a cost: they could question the longevity of the service; trust, support capacity etc. More important for enterprise customers though, imo.

On the other hand, there is a sense of wanting to help the 'little guy' when I read your about page. Like, if I was on the fence I could be compelled by the fact that it was done by a solo entrepreneur, and want to try it out of support. But, that's probably because I am in the same boat :)

Finally, you could take the middle road and personalise the about page from the perspective of ceo / founder of the company.
I for one would not be happy to live in a country where people have to live on the streets. 'Lazy Bum' is a pretty brutal indictment of a vast range of people, some of whom may have no other option, may not have the ability to read or the physical ability to pick grapes.

This stuff starts with education. You cannot expect to be a service economy if your K-12 education fails a decent percentage of society. Luckily the tools are becoming available to help, and we need students, teachers and schools to take advantage.
Yes, you can get a text diff from http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocket...
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In environments like hospitals, needing only one cable and one jack, I think this is a major advantage. Techs only need to unplug/plug one cable, there is less cable to get cluttered up, you only need half the amount of different types of cables in stock (no more different power and comms cables), ...

When renovating a section of a building, you only need to put in one new jack; that's half the cost saved, because you only need one guy running cable, not two (often different companies run electricity and network cables). So it's a major saving in installation costs.
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While we're all sharing..

The article focuses on macro level time; I often stress about micro level time. I read so many stories about startups getting funded, aquired, launching products and so on. I constantly feel like I just need to code a little longer, work a little harder on my startup; like everyone is on my heels, and I'll be left behind if I don't launch sooner, iterate sooner, expand sooner, etc.

It's irrational, but I constantly have these thoughts. I don't mean to go all self help but I get the feeling other people must feel like this. Am I alone or does this ring bells? :)
Yes, there are. You can also have the compilers watch the filesystem for changes, building whenever required. That comes in handy.
This, apparently: http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/09/technology/cisco/index.htm . I couldn't find any article from later that day, when the drop happened, but it seems that in spite of "beaten expectations" the investors weren't that happy with the 18% drop in profits.

Also, "temporary" URLs are so not cool. I had first tried to link to a Reuters article which I had found via Google Finance and it just wasn't there anymore. at least not where GFinance said it was supposed to be. And we're talking about a web resource published online only ~6 months ago, not about some 1998 article documenting the ongoing dot-com bubble.
In many countries, acknowledging ownership implies accepting responsibility. Chances are that they would have to provide the animals shelter in winter, wouldn't be allowed to let them be eaten or die of starvation, would be accountable for damage done by the animals, etc.

So, I doubt they will call themselves the owners of the animals.
>irregardless

I was crucified on /. when I wrote that :)
I think that's a misprint. The article I read said that Cisco was cutting 15% of positions at the VP level or above - not that the cuts would make up 15% of the layoffs.
Yes and no. RDP does most of the processing on the server, but still uses a local processor on the workstation for rendering graphics, communicating with the server, and so on.

This looks like a custom protocol for VMWare systems (see also http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/learningresources/mobilec...); it's too early to tell if it will see wide adoption or not. A clear downside is the extra horsepower that will be needed on the server; the upside is that you won't have to mess about with PxE booting or the like.

It's definitely the right time for this stuff, though. We've been working on a project in this space, too; we just demoed something (sorta kinda) similar to our largest client a week ago, to see if they'd like to be our pre-alpha tester. Still waiting to hear back. If we can get traction, we'll be able to have a pretty big impact in IT for SMEs.

Looks like we'd better hurry. :-)
Holding their children hostage would provide a really good incentive. Would you then recommend that as well?

This makes no sense. My moral claim is that the death penalty is morally equivalent to life imprisonment. Since the issue here is differentiating between two acts I believe to be morally equivalent, I prefer the action with the lower probability of harming innocents.

When faced with a choice between harming innocent children and not harming innocent people, I obviously recommend not harming innocent children.

If, however, the choice were between holding the children hostage until they die, or merely killing them, I can't say I'd express much preference. If I were the potential victim, I'd probably prefer getting killed.

And if my odds were 80% get killed, 20% exoneration, I'd strongly prefer that to 90% stay in jail for 60 years, 10% exoneration.

Just curious - could you explain why you believe locking a person in a cell until they die is better than killing them?
I try and reserve down votes for abuse, blatant trolling, etc.

Sometimes I find it hard not to down vote on objective things. Especially when the poster has completely missed the point and is getting carried away - potentially they trolling, but not doing it very well! :-)
Indeed. The sensible thing is to use caching and avoid doing long-running operations in real-time. When the user presses a key the browser searches through a small cache of recent urls, if there is a delay before pressing the next key (say a second or so) then that triggers a more thorough search through the entire history.
This makes no sense. Firstly he says that he refuses to use anything with a command line .. then he says "accessible HTML isn’t that hard, really". Well, that's text based isn't it? How can you condemn text based control in one context and praise it in another?

In a great many cases it is impossible to make a GUI to perform every conceivable action you want to do. You need to drop down to a more basic level, and that inevitable means text, whether it be programming languages (like HTML) or command lines. Drawing some arbitrary line based on when you in particular decided to stop learning new things is pretty meaningless.
And they have reportedly done the same thing for larger lithium polymer batteries.

I wouldn't be surprised if they were already lining up whatever the next major battery tech is going to be as well.
I like the idea that someone would downvote a comment based on the idea that "my library isn't like this, therefore these guys are trolling". Who knows. I've mostly seem wonderful libraries in the US, especially in Pittsburgh, but I'm sure plenty of places have their problems. There would always be a few bums asleep in the Carnegie (discretely, mind you).
On the CoffeeScript side of things I have heard good things about https://github.com/alisey/CoffeeScript-Compiler-for-Windows which doesn't require cygwin afaik.
Does it make any difference what the monkey's intention was though? As far as the law is concerned he has no rights in the matter regardless so surely it's irrelevant.
> Apple doesn't announce products at CES.

More than that, Apple does not announce products unless they have to (because they need developers to start working on it right now so everything's ready for release for instance).