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I started by learning the basics of C++ when I was around 15 years old. It stirred my curiosity, gave me a general understanding of what programming is all about, and taught me how hard it is to build a real game (like everyone else, I wanted to make games).

I gave up on C++ in the end, and decided that Python is the best way to go. I do, however, thank C++ for helping me to overcome those first (difficult) steps.
A friend of mine worked at a company that made diagnostic computers for cars and he managed to brick a BMW that required an engineer from Germany to fix the issue (an upgrade of the BMW's firmware was interrupted by the power going out, leaving the car's computer in an inconsistent state).
Lately, instead of using the module pattern by invoking a function immediately and returning an object, I've taken to just using an anonymous function/constructor with the new operator -- properties defined under "this" will be public and any other variables will be private (obviously). I prefer it over the typical "module pattern" because I believe it looks just a tad bit cleaner compared to the explicit object definition.
You have made similar statements about 4 times in this thread ("you aren't really looking hard enough into how you are using your time.", "trade an hour of TV watching for an hour of writing your own blog engine or a Todo list app") already and you basically alienated about 90% of good developers, and you still don't seem to get why your statement is insulting.

Others told you, so try to understand their viewpoint: you are projecting your own prejudices about time and open source. Maybe, if you look at the cold, hard numbers, you may agree that 90% of smart programmers don't have a github account. True or false? If true, then your claims need to be revisited.
It's bad for those of us who don't like to use the mouse too. I wonder how is the rest of G+ with regard to keyboard support?
Spotify is also a music management app like iTunes. So you can use Spotify to play your own music files along with their vast catalogue. With Rdio you can only play Rdio songs and if some song isn't on there you'll have to whip out iTunes or another media player.
Zero. Sales tax is paid by the purchaser not the seller. In most states the seller is required to collect the tax on behalf of the purchaser.
That is not the case that the large drug companies sell for distribution + manufacturing cost. If that were the case, drugs would be essentially free in the rest of the world and they most certainly are not for brand names. In Canada the government sets the price. Here's a chart that's still relevant that shows prices in US/Canada/Mexico: http://cummings.house.gov/pdf/intl.pdf

Some generic drugs cost literally pennies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_drug#Economics

The drug companies convince foreign governments to let them charge more because they say it costs a lot to develop the drugs. Other countries pay too. The US isn't the only one.
G+ definitely needs a circle exclusion option. Then you could have public posts with several circles excluded (they can still read it since it's public but it won't pollute their stream unless they reply).

But they will pick it up soon, no doubt. The need is there, technical possibilities are endless, so submit your feedback as I did and wait.
Very similar to swipe, but with different back office processing and limits. It is better security in some ways so they were willing to allow no signature transactions. It still hasnt taken off in the USA, but check out jack in the box drivethrough and such for the readers.
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Yes, although a large part of it depends on if you want to rent or buy. Rent is comparable in both cities from what I've seen, although nyc (unlin=ke san francisco) has semi reliable public transport and more rent friedly areas with reasonable commutes.
On my rather average 3-yo laptop without dedicated graphics, Alt-Tab works great if the system load is low, but if I have a lot of things going on, it can take a second to pop up.

Oddly, Super seems to work with less lag (though it stutters) than Alt-Tab for me while I'm running something resource-intensive.
Unless you were looking at the clock - in which case you would see it jump forward by two minutes!

wait, where is this clock?
That's it.

I can't count the number of bitching posts about the complexity of circles. But they are as complex as you make them.

You can tweet and blog (full-public post), send restricted messages (circles), or even private messages (single user).

I think the more interesting question would be "how many circles do you actively use"? I went circle-crazy and categorized a ton of people, but really only use "Friends", "Acquaintances", and two other circles -- both of which neatly translate to real circles of friends.
The four-finger swipe to switch between apps more or less fixes that issue. I've had the four-finger gestures enabled on mine for a couple months, and they really are a noticeable improvement.
I used to backup to a 1TB drive connected and shared by a TonidoPlug using Time Machine. It was a bit of a pain to set up under Leopard, but it worked well enough over the network. A big advantage here is that Time Machine creates a Sparseimage file to back up to, which means it is trivial to "backup your backup"-- all you have to do is mirror that file somewhere else.

I stopped doing this because it was easier and faster in the long run just to plug in a FireWire800 drive and stop messing around with a somewhat hacky solution that occasionally failed and was pretty slow.
Also, do you have any thoughts on Seattle or other parts of WA/PNW vs SFBA? I love Seattle but am doing a startup down in SF for now.
> but there is nothing in the UI to indicate that the back button will go there either, just a mental note by the user!

I'm not sure where you expect such an indicator to be, but that isn't the problem. If the user can't remember where they came from, why would they want to go back? The same 'problem' must also apply to the double-tap of iOS. (Which I had never heard of until now, but I only use iPhones occasionally.)

Given that you seem to have no issue with the concept of global 'return to home' and 'return to previous app', both of which are places previously visited, it's rather contradictory to take issue with a method of going back which is at worst equivalent to those features.
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RIM doubles workforce in Fredericton: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2010/01/12...

"Most of the jobs are expected to be in the $60,000 to $75,000 range."
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Work: xcode 3.1.4
Home/personal projects: xcode 4

I need to be able to build/test for OSX 10.3.9, which isn't something that I can do on xcode 4.

Though, for my company, the production building is done with xcode 2.something.

For my personal projects, I love xcode 4, so much of an improvement over 3.x.
Am I the only one who signed up for a premium account with the expectation that I would be able to share it with my wife? I'm not quite sure why there's the artificial restriction on being in 'online' mode on more than one computer. It's really a deal-breaker for me. Our only option (I guess) is to have two accounts, which means managing two playlists, etc. (we like to curate them together, our music tastes are very similar). Ah well, I'm not sure if I will continue my subscription past this month...
EMI, one of the majors, has an agreement with Grooveshark. Merlin, which some say is the 5th largest label, also has an agreement with Grooveshark. Plus all of those other labels on that list that, to you, may be small but represents a LOT of artists.

Youtube also allows uploading of content and takedowns via DMCA, so that is a bit disingenuous of you to claim it's not standard practice. Labels have every right to be compensated and also do takedowns if they choose, but RIAA normally just blankets takedowns that may or may not be inaccurate.
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My current personal project is a cross-platform game framework for Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, 360, and WP7. It may be commercializable, and as such open-sourcing it makes little sense. If it's not, then when I'm done with it I'll likely open-source it.
HTML Dog is a good place to start for both HTML and CSS: http://htmldog.com/book/

I used it (to some extent) to learn both, but still haven't grasped how to work with CSS layouts and build a real web page. I don't blame the book though - I blame my laziness.

The online version is free to view, and there's a paperback edition available for purchase.
The only beneficiary to this is states that don't have this tax condition so that current affiliates incorporate there. Incorporate out of state, file an S-corp election, get some mail forwarding services out of state, done. CA will not lose any rev, jobs or anything.

The whole thing is a giant exercise in paperwork and a few hundred dollars of barrier to entry.
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Zealots tend to get lost easily.
Thanks for clarifying on the search button, and now that I'm going through apps on my phone, I can't seem to find the places where before I've found 'unexepected' use of the back-button exiting the app rather than taking me to the apps previous screen.

I guess that is really the problem, the majority of apps follow convention, but then every once in a while you get something that doesn't and it is gets confusing.
I've personally used private circles to categorize where and how I know people. So unless I want to blast a message out to such a group, I don't use circles for that content.

However I really, really would like to tag what I make public. As things stand I censor myself to only talk about things that I think are of more general interest. And this frustrates me to no end. If there were some option to categorize my public content and only send it to people who want it, I'd be using it in a heartbeat.
I'm interested in seeing if their better than piracy strategy will actually work.

Rhapsody had tried the same thing in the mid 2000s, letting people play songs for free.

They seem to think that people who aren't willing to pay for music will use Spotify because it lets you play free music, and then magically decide to start paying for mobile access. But the reality will probably be these users sticking to their less than legal ways and keeping their mobile access via iTunes. So without the compelling free component, it ends up being just an improvement over other music subscription services, and music subscription isn't really a groundbreaking new model.

...or Perhaps subscription is the model of the future and there hasn't been a large enough marketing push educating people yet...
Long time ago I played around XCode 3.2 on my co-workers mac pro and found scm control(tried svn) is very bad. Repository browser just shows commit logs, no way to see which files are changed in a commit. How much has changed in XCode 4?(I am just curious. I do web developing for living.)
I've never used an Android phone, but surely that's a little confusing for casual users – at a glance is it easy to tell which is the "main" screen?
Well, it's not great - I actually just changed it, but the generated password was "3PTJJV7". Not too awful, aside from the length, which has a maximum of 10 characters and doesn't allow special characters.

It also asked me to confirm my new username and password, helpfully showing me my username and asterisks for the password. :/
I disagree that Mog is ahead of the competition.

For me, while Mog has more songs, they lose to Rdio in their UI, their iPhone app, and the social aspect of the service.

When I was comparing them, it was neck and neck between the two, but I couldn't stand Mog's crashy AIR player compared to Rdio's rock-solid AIR player. The Rdio website is much more intuitive and usable, IMO. Also, the new Rdio for Mac app is crazy awesome. The Mog iPhone app used to sign me out all the time, too, which was really irritating.

I've also found a lot more new music through Rdio than I ever did when I was using Mog. The social features are nice because I've been able to find people who like the same type of music and then listen to new music they discover.

It's all a lot of little things, but they added up to make Mog really quite unacceptable for me.
I find the 3 and 4 fingered swipes, especially on the smaller screens of the iPhone/touch devices to be pretty inconsistent and not very natural from a hand gesture perspective. I'd also suggest that 'more gestures' isn't what the average consumer is going to find as useful.

I'm also not looking forward to the first gesture requiring the use of my big toe.
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yeah... Dixon is dead on.

leave it to the naysayers to say "it's impossible."

Jobs will dominate and prove them wrong.
I guess repeating exactly what he said while managing to sound both disagreeable and condescending is a change from your outright misrepresenting and troll like posts earlier in this thread I'm not sure it's a change for the better.
It's true that most of the bands you listed were not available a while back, but I believe all of them are available now. We are missing some Pink Floyd though.

If there's something missing that you really want to see, make a request here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/rd.io/viewform?formkey=dHd...

And thanks for sticking with rdio!
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Works fine on Iceweasel 4.0.1. And it has keyboard navigation, thank $deity.
The article made me remember of this virus I've heard about. Supposedly, it was accessing a rotation media (harddisk, floppy disk? I don't remember) in different patterns and monitoring the failure rate for each pattern. Then it would keep accessing it in the pattern that caused most errors which would kill the hardware device - as the errors were supposedly from resonances caused by movements of the reading heads and would cause physical stresses in the device.

Anybody else heard about that?
I'd say so. The most recent which I am aware of was the nyan cat youtube video had a nyan cat progress bar.
http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/17/youtube-nyan-cat-progress-...
Queen is also there.
...Assuming it works as advertised, there are some handy features, including the ability to remotely lock and unlock the car, fire up the climate control, see how much gas is in the tank, look up in Google Maps where you left you car, and check if the lights are on.

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/07/06/review_cars_volvo_s60_...
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i've lived in SF for 6 years. I have no idea where you can get nice 1BR place with GG Bridge and Bay Views for $2k! Let us know!
I'm very very sympathetic to this view. I eat a high-fat diet, and have for over a year. But Google is probably right to act conservatively here. Don't blame Google for following the Harvard Pyramid, blame the Harvard Pyramid. They're the ones with the responsibility to update the status quo.
What was his point? Where's the data to back it up. That's right, there's nothing of substance, only speculation. If your high profile names wrote some speculative piece I would consider it equally worthless. Either your argumentation has merits or it doesn't.

I don't think you understand the meaning of curation. Curation doesn't imply censorship or that a certain group of people filter content based on a certain set of value, rather it means that they would ensure a high signal to noise by removing posts that don't really contribute to a discussion.
Psychologically, I prefer scrolling right to scrolling left. Don't ask me why - maybe it's the "going forwards" versus "going backwards" mental model. Or maybe starting from the home screen, I don't like having to make a decision to go left or right, and would rather just keep flicking right until I find what I need.

My Nexus One has the layout you propose, and I don't prefer it to iOS.
Good point. It always bugs me when I hit the home button and end up in one of my custom folders when I actually needed something from the home screen.

Perhaps a Cydia developer could make a tweak to avoid this problem?
Wooooow. I already wasn't a fan of Git or Github, but those links are vomitous.

"Waah, they copied us!" Maybe. "PLAGIARISM!" Not so much.
You should consider contracting remotely for US companies (if possible)
Android has both a home and a back button.

The inconsistency you talk about only happens when authors poorly create their applications. Android's entire multitasking functionality is built on top of a stack of activities, which is easiest to think of as a stack of screen views. I start at my "desktop", click on my Photo Gallery, decide to share an image using Dropbox, and it takes me to choosing a Dropbox folder. That's roughly three activities or so (depending on how many screens within each app I have to go through) all on a stack. Built properly, if I decide I don't want to share on Dropbox while choosing a folder, I would just hit the back button, it'd pop the Dropbox folder browsing screen off the stack, and take me back to browsing my Photo Gallery. Poorly-created apps will try and "recreate" their internal activity stack when they're not supposed to. Let's say that getting to Dropbox's folder browser if I were to launch the app independently took four activities in and of itself. If Dropbox was poorly written, it would try and recreate that natural flow of previous activities when you're just trying to do a share, so hitting the back button won't take you to the Photo Gallery from sharing.

Sorry, it's complicated to explain but makes perfect sense when you're actually using a device. The tl;dr is that if app developers don't suck the back button's behavior is seamless and consistent.
And I'm guessing that'll be the longtail. All hail our new (rich) geek elite.
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"The thing is, Jeff, that we are Californians. Paying taxes to our state benefits us and our family. If we didn’t have you, we would shop more at local retailers that DO pay taxes in California and DO reinvest in our local area. The more successful you are, the less our money stays in the area and the fewer funds we have for our local infrastructure."

If Amazon is detrimental to CA residents than as a CA resident why would they put Amazon affiliate links on their site in the first place? Aren't they helping Amazon to be successful? The argument seems inconsistent. They seem to only have adopted this view only after being kicked off the program, if they were still on I'm sure we'd see no open letter regarding not collecting CA sales tax.

Also, if a CA resident buys something from Amazon and doesn't pay CA sales tax doesn't the sales tax money remain with the consumer which means there is no difference for money staying in the community and being available for community investment. What I mean by this is if a CA resident buys a TV from Amazon and saves $200 because they evaded tax, then the person still has $200 to go buy coffee from a local retailer.
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Having done a bit more looking, it seems like Rdio, MOG, and Spotify all have this restriction, and according to help articles on the MOG site, this is due to the contract the recording industry puts forth. I guess I see where they think this should be included, but I really don't think they should expect one family to purchase 2 or 3 subscriptions.
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Commodore 1541 FDD, but it was serviceable.

ps: also similar was setting "unfriendly" scanrates for unprepared CRT-s, Samsung notebook HDD "click of death".

memoryhole:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Commodore_154...

though my all time favourite is the ping
curious - are you a TechStars alum?
If I could, I would just make search the homescreen (if it also had the dock with it's 4 default apps also). I have so many apps it's easier to find by search than to go to the page+folder.
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I doubt you'll stay there long knowing what you know now though! Don't make my mistake. Started on £15k, 6 years later I left... on £17.5k.

edit: To be fair I was continually promised 0.1% of the company if I worked just a little bit harder :)
4.0.1 and I only hope they've fixed the behaviour of tabs in 4.1 because that new feature is driving me bonkers.
Given that nearly every item, gesture, etc. in Xcode has a shortcut and you can modify these shortcuts to whatever you like, I'm inclined to believe you are just trolling for AppCode.
this is simply false, generally. This would have been accurate: "doing a startup funded by TechStars gives someone way more credibility than an MBA, within the population that reads Hacker News." --- which is about, oh, i don't know .01% of the world's population. A top-5 MBA (most especially, one from HBS) opens doors for you in every industry, on every continent. YC/TS makes you the cool kid at parties in SoMa. Let's try and keep some perspective here.
I'm not saying your POV isn't valid, but when you say "I just don't see the usefulness of Back buttons", my visceral reaction is as if you'd just said "I just don't see the usefulness of having thumbs." After using WP and Android for a while, hitting the back button became almost a subconscious reflex action, and trying to use something without it seriously almost feels like I'm missing a body part.
probably true, though the learning is what's important anyway.
4.2 for me
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I have been noticing a lot of polls/posts on salaries for programmers lately.
(http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2763932) I am very curious to know the background of the HN readers. I have a feeling it's skewed towards Web/Mobile development.

PS: Let me know if you want to add more choices.
Database [I don't mean using DB's for your apps, but developing the core technology]
Networking (Routers/Switches/Appliances)
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In academia, I was paid around $56k. Moving into industry I went up to $75k. I just took a new job with a big multinational and my salary popped up to $140k.
> Am I missing something?

Yes. In git you can also do 'git add -p', which lets you interactively add pieces of a diff to the index, not just entire files.

Now, you could imagine an interface where you interactively select the pieces of the diff when committing, and I believe some VCSs do this. So, even though you were missing something, you weren't necessarily wrong. :)

But having the index can be useful if you want to build up the things you're going to commit over separate 'git add -p' sessions.
Building this bot should get a job for the right person.

It's not only a coding project in its own right, but it's also a very clever form of lateral thinking that shows a certain cheekiness and savvy that can be appreciated by plenty of businesses out there.

The trick is that you have to make sure you're not hiring for any of their plagiarized projects. What if they plagiarized the bot itself?
This is going to make the front page, too, isn't it? Oh, the irony :P
The key on Android are the home screen widgets which make each screen more recognizable than on iOS where every screen is a grid of similar icons. A lot of phones ship with a big clock/weather widget on the "main" screen that makes it easy to recognize. Users then quickly learn how to customize and add widgets, after some use the look of each screen becomes ingrained and instantly recognizable.
Startups founded by Harvard MBA alumni:

Direct Hit+
Gilt Group*
Hunch
Starent*
Viglink
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+ Valued at over $500m
* Valued at over $1bn