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Ask HN:Where and when do you code? 
lol no I dont mean where in the virtual address space...I mean where in the real world do you actually sit down and write code.?..What kind of lighting conditions are there? it is open air?..Is there music playing in the background...What time of the day seems to be ideal?

I have been trying to solve this problem for a while and it seems like some places and times are better than others to the programming mind.Please let me know what your thoughts are and also point me in the right direction if any of you have thought about this problem before.

Thanks
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Is the a capacitive touch screen? How does the screen size compare to the iPad?
I agree that sometimes just writing code is a good way to get started solving a problem however, I do not believe it is usually the best approach in general. Spending to much time planning can be a problem but many new programmers jump into writing something without even considering the problem much before hand. This approach very often leads to learning lessons the hard way, which I admit is not always a bad thing. In the long run though failing to learn to think and plan before you code can limit ones abilities.

Different problems call for different solutions and sometimes just jumping in and coding can be lots of fun but, on the other hand, some projects require a fair amount of problem understanding and planning. If you like to code but you don't enjoy hard problems (the kind that take real research) you eventually reach a ceiling in what you can do.
Squirrel mail is neither the easiest to setup, nor the most feature rich. Just saying, it doesn't have to be all or nothing.
To your point, someone used the Hubble Effect in the other HN thread on this story to show that this observation is actually closer to 9.5 billion years old, which is significantly different than it being 12 billion years old.
And you sir, are shockingly bitter. That's an uncalled for level of hate.
Missed opportunities aren't always a failure. The important part is understanding why you missed the opportunity, what circumstances allowed for it to pay off, and what risks were overcome and how. Just because a bet wins big, does not always mean it was a good bet.

When you have little money, that can be relatively easily to replace, capital preservation is not a big concern. Once you have hit one or two big ones, the game changes. You better have a good idea what the risks and rewards are before putting your money down.

All the missed opportunities suddenly become the foundation for your ability to be successful at inherently risky endeavors. If you learned from them, they may have saved you a lot of grief experiencing a full wipe-out.

I value my missed opportunities quite a bit, and have learned more from them than actual straight-up failures. The successes I have learned from even more, though.
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Mouse movements have been long used as a source of entropy in desktop applications.
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If the only reason to do so is to become a "rounded, open, and engaged intellectual citizen", why not just read a few books?

Advanced humanities degrees are great, if you're into advanced humanities.
I really like Google but they lack of human interaction when there is a problem is troubling.
As spicyj said, any adventurous soul should feel free to play around with the beta/testing site we have at http://khan-masterslave.appspot.com/exercisedashboard -- let us know how it goes.
If someone owes the bank $1,000, it is that person's problem. If 1,000 people owe the bank $1,000,000 each, it is the bank's problem.

In much the same way, if one user gets upset and stops using Google or Facebook, it is the user's loss, but if millions of users do it, the company is in trouble.
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Eric Drexler's next book: Radical Abundance, 2012
Exactly. They "know" but they don't "know". You know?
I think it would ameliorate a lot of the fear, uncertainty and doubt around this situation if Google could answer the following question: Does the user in question currently have the ability to extract the data he had in Google services, and if not, will Google provide him with his data?

If there's no way to answer that question without compromising his privacy, can Google at least share its policy on data liberation in situations such as this, and publicize it broadly via the Data Liberation Front?
Who says the universe has bounds? The classic analogy is of an inflating balloon. If you make two marks on the balloon, they'll expand away from each other, but neither one is the center.

Of course AFAIK there isn't any solid proof for the "finite, unbounded" idea, mostly just speculation. But it was Einstein's thing so we (laymen ;) take it pretty seriously.
Harvey Wasserman, who wrote a book on the stolen 2004 election, explained that the combination of computer hacking, ballot destruction, and the discrepancy between exit polling (which showed a big Kerry win in Ohio) and the "real" vote tabulation, all point to one answer: the Republicans stole the 2004 election.

"The 2004 election was stolen. There is absolutely no doubt about it. A 6.7% shift in exit polls does not happen by chance. And, you know, so finally, we have irrefutable confirmation that what we were saying was true and that every piece of the puzzle in the Ohio 2004 election was flawed," Wasserman said.
I don't see the internet as a source of wisdom, or even knowledge, depending on what one means by the word. Information, certainly. But the mental habits that the internet as a mass medium fosters are antithetical to study and reflection.

I love the internet, not least because of the ease with which I can obtain information that used to take hours in the library. But obtaining specific facts is not the same thing as learning or thinking.

From observing myself and others, I believe that something is wrong. I'm getting way more brain stimulation from the internet than I used to without it, but in terms of things that matter to me in the long run -- growth and learning -- it is of poor quality. I remember the quality of a life spent with books, and this is definitely not it. I feel like I'm experiencing my own atrophy, and it dismays me. Sometimes I think that one of these days I should post a list of books to HN and promise not to come back until I've read them.

So no, consuming information from the internet is in practice nothing like getting an education in the humanities, for anyone whose brain is wired like mine and those of people I know.

Books are food, the internet is a drug.
Jenkins code is alright. It has a little bit symptoms of "being written by one man" (Kohsuke) to it but I wouldn't call it very good.

Here are a few projects with good Java code: Spring Framework (check mostly around the spring-core stuff), Apache DS, Google Web Toolkit APIs, Google Guava, Google Guice (pretty much almost all Google Java open source projects have similar high-quality).
Is it possible to use mouse with android? This can be very useful for high resolution precise input. Thanks for a very informative post I am going to get a Nook Color now.
To a young undergraduate, frustrated with the lack of rapid progress on tough philosophical questions, AI seemed like the great hope, the panacea—the escape from the frustrations of thinking.

Yeah, that'll go away in short order after taking a few AI classes.
capacitive |
multitouch |
IPS Display |
178degree viewing angle |
7inch diag screen |
1024x600 screen |
Stock: 169 ppi / CM7: 161 ppi |

Highly recommend CM7 running android 2.3.4
> If you are worried about your career, I must tell you that getting a humanities Ph.D. is not only not a danger to your employability, it is quite the opposite. I believe there no surer path to leaping dramatically forward in your career than to earn a Ph.D. in the humanities. Because the thought leaders in our industry are not the ones who plodded dully, step by step, up the career ladder. The leaders are the ones who took chances and developed unique perspectives.

Apparently when he abandoned his sophomore technologist beliefs, he also abandoned the need to provide evidence.
The account was not deleted, it was suspended pending review. It has since been reviewed, and reinstated. As to why it was flagged for reviewal, I suspect the other person's comment (that she originally went by the name Adafruit Industries) is correct.
No, it was done in C#, and even if it was in C, it's not worth the trouble to preprocess the code anyway. The assignment answers were usually simple but short. Something like sorting a linked list using insertion sort. If you have no idea how linked lists work, it's likely you would copy it. But if you understood linked lists, and already knew insertion sort, you could probably write it on the spot within 20 minutes.
One guy making a claim and exit poll discrepancies do not equal evidence.
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You're saying that the space inside the balloon is not part of the Universe?
Or Ctrl+U :)
its still not gmail, but i use http://roundcube.net/
If you want to play around with some hardware I'd recommend getting an Arduino board. You can start with the Arduino IDE and work your way down to the metal. It's a relatively simple system but the principles apply pretty much to bigger systems.

Another good platform in the same vein is the BeagleBoard, which is a great way to play with a slightly bigger platform running Linux.
I have to say honestly that I think I just got lucky. I had a site with decent PR that I pushed/linked towards the interior design site and it gave it a good start. From there, it's been Google traffic and AdSense/Text-Link-Ads. Nothing I've done has been particularly smart - the site is ugly, it's rarely updated, the categories were picked on a whim, etc.
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Barcode payments seem to be working okay for Starbucks.
No, the point is that its irrelevant that he violated ToS. Google should not unilaterally wipe a user's data without providing a chance to retrieve it. I'm sure the ToS lets Google delete an account for no reason whatsoever. That doesn't mean it isn't evil to delete a user's data.
> it seems anybody can call themselves that

Kind of like "scientist"?
When I saw his name, I wondered if it was the same Catmull from the Catmull-Rom splines that you can find on a number of 3d design programs such as 3dsmax.

Turns out it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Catmull
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation."
I believe I have woken up in an alternate universe today.

Since when are random Google engineers so absurdly popular that a G+ account suspension is even noticed, let alone reacted to with a flood of tweets, emails, etc?

Being a Google engineer appears to confer a seat at the popular kids' table, now.
Emacs should have a dedicated manifesto mode.
Get a locket engraved with the date. Write the message on thin paper, roll it up, and store it in the locket. Wear it everywhere until it's time to open it. Keep some spare copies in a safety deposit box. If you lose the locket, you'll notice, so you can go and get another one from the box.
Well, Einstein is ;) But yeah, for the sake of the analogy we're talking about a 2-d universe which is the surface of the balloon, nothing else exists.
Really, you're shocked at a hostile reaction when you accuse someone of "false bravado and chest- and/or drum-beating" in a post dripping with condescension? If you're going to dish it out...
In the real world you don't get punished for using Google or surrounding yourself with people who are smarter than you.

Maybe classroom programming shouldn't punish you either. What if you could turn in any code you wanted as long as you cited where you got it from and which license it was released under?

// got this from John. he explained this to me & now I finally understand how it works!

or

// thanks Google! found this great code on Github (Apache 2.0 license)

Of course, this approach would require assigning different types of projects than we're currently used to, but I imagine students would graduate a lot more prepared for real jobs.
Why does everything have to be so extreme - what's wrong with studying some humanities without quitting your job?
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When you mention "battery firmware", are you referring to the settings in flash that you can change regarding safety cut-off points, etc?

Or were you actually able to make the battery's IC execute arbitrary code?

In my mind, firmware only refers to executable code. Curious though if there is a way to actually run code on those guys.
Yes. I have a Sylvania tablet with USB host and plugging in a mouse causes a pointer to pop up.
I know that from the outside that it probably looks like Google has been unfair or uncaring in this case. I'm sorry that I can't go into the details.
Yeah, this is probably better the higher-level you're talking about. Also, I wouldn't start with standard libraries, since they'll generally be written much more for performance than accessibility.
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This article is almost 100% fluff.
>Keep some spare copies in a safety deposit box.

// Prepay for 40 years, leave the message in the box, forget the lockets. The bank will chase your for an extension for the rental of the box.

Far from foolproof but if you're already relying on a deposit box ...
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Love the idea, but the demo is hanging on me. Looks like it's choking on urls.api.twitter.com.
As a premise for a blog post this isn't a particularly veiled attempt at armchair quarterbacking twitter, and closing with 'k, now go follow me everybody!' clangs instead of adding to the argument.
I guess people who use this reasoning as their entire purpose for interacting online turn me off to the point that I don't anticipate ever joining Facebook, and still find very little compelling about G+. People post to G+'s generic-looking interface instead of blogging, and get piled on with comments, losing both personality and clarity in contrast to something like Tumblr or traditional blogging. Twitter and Tumblr are two great tastes that taste great together, however you want to utilize them in my opinion.
I consider one an accusation and one more of an attack, but you are correct, I was being condescending (I grow oh-so-tired of those posts) If they really are equal I suppose I shall rest.
Skud was actually Internet-famous before being a Google engineer - she was pretty well-known in the Perl and open-source communities before joining Google as part of the Metaweb acquisition:

http://www.oscon.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/10173

http://search.cpan.org/~skud/

She wasn't actually at Google all that long - hell, I'm more senior than she was, but I doubt anyone would notice if my G+ account disappeared, because I don't really put myself out there on the Internet (besides HN).
I'm not talking about competency, I'm talking about bothering to do it given other options.
There are a lot of very talented people at Pixar but I think Catmull is really the heart and soul of the company. He's one of those ridiculously rare people that are both a brilliant engineers and expert managers of people. Working at Pixar for ten years taught me just how crucial the character of a CEO can be to the success of a company.
...as well as anyone using NoScript, who get to spend all that time writing a comment only for it to be thrown out because of an invisible field
Your "clever" system may keep bots away, but it also annoys the absolute shit out of legitimate users. Fail.
I believe Takeout launched with Google+, so it's geared toward data in Google+ (at least initially).
Here's the thing. Programming is incredibly complicated. Unless you're a robot or at least a lot more intelligent than me, there's no way you can think through all the bazillions of subproblems (many of them rather trivial) when thinking about how to solve a programming problem. You have to be able to solve those subproblems as they come up while coding. In order to be able to do that, you have to have a lot of routine. Writing a lot of code helps you get that routine.
Amazing. Google finally starts to make big advances in the coveted social arena only to shoot themselves in the foot.
The greatest tablet PC in world 
First, the post-PC era is an era of harmony hardware and software. By iOS 5 and iCloud, Jobs outlined for the first time we had such a future - it is no longer to distinguish between telephone, PC, or Tablet PC, just concerned about the access device whether can be connected to the network; its operating system running on what is Windows, Chorme, or iOS no longer important, convenient operation and efficient application is the ultimate weapon to win customers.
I believe Takeout launched with Google+, so it's geared toward data in Google+ (at least initially). Here's a post I did about backing up data in Gmail a while back: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/backup-gmail-in-linux-with-get... This post has info about backing up other data from a Google account: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/not-trapping-users-data-good/
(And on a related note, this comment form is damn near unusable on Android in portrait mode. I had to make this a separate comment because the box wouldn't scroll to show what I was typing...)
I don't think silverstorms aim was to offend, rather he was trying to explain an interesting phenomenon and perhaps accidentally offended. jdunlop's statement, on the other hand seemed designed to offend.
voxox.com - free

youmail.com - free?

phonebooth.com - $20/month

ringcentral.com - $20/month

line2.com - $10-15/month

3jam.com - $5/month
So let me get this straight Google: I can have a Google+ account for my business, but I can't have one for my pseudonym?
How is launching completely unrelated products a smart strategy ? If even launching a single product is hard then launching several is multiplying the complexity and focus of your company. what if these side ventures become more popular, are you going to abandon the initial or split your resources.

Suggesting launching a new product everytime you want to test a new feature is a nightmare. I don't see how this even relates to an intial launch. You're talking about features, and in this case.. you should release it to a small subset of your users or in this case build the smallest thing possible to convey what your features intend to do.
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Mostly defaults--I only have a handful of custom keybindings, most of them a carry-over from the old ITS/Twenex Emacs defaults, since I have editing finger habits which are decades old. (It's wonderful that you can get most of the basics in every Cocoa-based edit field in OS X.)

I wouldn't even call myself an Emacs power user. I've written a modicum of Emacs Lisp, but nothing major.

Custom hardware? Hoo boy, let's not go down that road, too off-topic. ;-) Well, OK, the best keyboard ever made by the Hand of Man is the old Tom Knight AI Lab keyboard (google "Tom Knight Keyboard" and you'll find lots of info). The particular recipe that Microswitch (Honeywell) developed for that generation of keyboards, based on (highly expensive) Hall-effect mechanical switches, is still unparalleled to this day--it had a sort of preternaturally comfortable throw. I even bought one of the Microswitch Symbolics-style keyboards from a custom run (for about $600) at LLNL back in the early 80's, and hacked up a Sun-1 CPU board to read the keyboard's up/down parallel encoding to produce ascii serial out, I was so attached to that quality of keyboard. (Didn't hurt that I could map all the Shift/Meta/Super/Hyper/Network shift keys to the appropriate escape sequences ;-). Had to give it up when ascii terminals died out; sigh.

Since then, I've kinda given up, but the Thinkpad keyboards from a few years back were exceptional (don't know if Lenovo has kept the quality up lately), and the latest-generation Apple flat-topped short-throw keyboards are also exceedingly fast and accurate for typing. But none of them come close the pure tactile nirvana of those old Microswitch keyboards.

You can still find some of those incredible Microswitch keys on older ATMs. They were designed for millions of abusive presses before failure.

(Uh-oh, is my obsession showing? ;-)
That doesn’t seem to be true. Even Apple, for example, will often change their behavior, especially after much vitriol is directed at them. I don’t know whether it’s the vitriol or the nice constructive feedback (there is certainly always going to be some of that mixed in) that causes them to change but I see no indication whatsoever that vitriolic and loud criticism would make them shy away from changing things.

I think it would be an exceedingly bad policy for companies to ignore that kind of feedback. It’s valuable and it should inform decisions. That doesn’t mean that every vitriolic comment deserves a response, but flat out ignoring it – on principle and not because what is said is a wrong argument[1] – would be stupid.

On an emotional level I can understand not wanting to react to that kind of criticism. I probably wouldn’t want to if it were directed at me as an individual. But as a company? I think I would have to[2].

[1] And if there is no argument and only insults the company should do their best to find out what the underlying reasons are.

[2] I’m obviously talking about feedback on an aggregate level. The company should try and identify common patterns in the feedback they receive.
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G+Me adds the features that Google+ forgot.
There are plenty of qualified people here looking for work, whether it be temporary or long-term. I myself am looking for work for instance.

Before looking into paid job boards, post in the "Who's Hiring" threads that go up each month or contact posters in the "Looking for Work" threads.

How many people are you looking to hire at once, just one or an entire team?

I also agree with phyllotaxis, you need to decide and advertise what type of developers you're looking for. Do you want a co-founder to take over the technical side for you, or do you just want code monkeys that can fix bugs, or somewhere in between?
Yes exactly. In a more broad sense I think all nouns (people, places, urls), should not count against the limit.
"This is somewhat insulting to to those of us who, despite being "sophmoric" technologists, are actually quite well rounded."

Only if you commit the logical fallacy of assuming that "a way" means "the only way". Saying that X is a way of getting to Y does not imply that !X is not a way of getting to Y.

Said differently: there are lots of different rites of passage in our world, and they're not universal. Jewish people see the Bat/Bar Mitzvah as a rite of passage to adulthood; Catholics have confirmation; certain young girls have debutante balls. This guy thinks a liberal arts degree is one particular rite of passage, and it's no more or less insulting than any of the others.
Grow up or GTFO, HN is a place for adults. If someone is impolite, your response shouldn't be a trollish immature response.

If your life is so grossly devastated by a google action then you're an idiot. All my data on google is backed up multiple times, because I'm a responsible adult and want to ensure the safety of my data. I don't trust google simply because it's google. They're a mega corp that's going to ditch you, screw you and abuse you for a penny if they can.

As I said, it's time for people to grow up or get out.
apt-get install postgrey

That's really all I do...
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This makes me wonder about the times I found problems with the answers in the back of the book. It is incredibly frustrating to work on a math problem for two or three hours, look in the back of the book to see if your answer is right, only to find it wasn't, and then to subsequently find out (from the professor) that the provided answer is wrong.