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Asking for a deposit for a project does something very important: it pre-qualifies the party asking for the work in multiple dimensions.

Here's what I mean. If they can get you a check cut for a portion of the amount of the project, then you just learned three important things about them: (a) they take you and the project seriously and are committed to your doing it; (b) they have both the signing and check writing authority to commission the project; and (c) they are able to control their organization from their end in order to make the project happen.

If it is not a major corporation and you don't get a deposit up front and you just start working, then any number of bad things can happen:

- You find out that they never intended to pay and they consider your demands for payment a joke.
- It turns out that they are powerless smurfs with no signing authority
- It turns out that there is absolutely no support for the project internally

In any event, it then becomes a crap shoot for you. If you get a deposit it is possible that you may be stiffed on later payments, but it becomes highly unlikelier by orders of magnitude.

A signed purchase order from a large company should be enough to go on, I guess. I have always asked for deposits.
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No. Auto Resume doesn't actually do anything, as far as I can tell. Just re-opens the document.
This looks very cool, good luck with it!
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Well I can't tell you much from the dev side because I'm a business guy, but we typically look at about half to 2/3 of that amount, plus a fraction of a % equity (if any). I actually got a pretty good deal at my startup, but I know a lot of friends in business and that's pretty average.

To give you some color, rockstar coders make $100k + equity at a lot of funded early stage startups. Equity varies but I'm guessing 0.5% to 2% is average. If I were you, any startup offering you $70k + 0.5% or higher is a decent deal
just one , it sucks when API returns null for not found instead of some form of NullObject
IMNSHO it would be nicer and semantically more pleasing to eye to have
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Congrats to Fogus and Houser on their Jolt Finalist Award for The Joy of Clojure!
It's quite possible my sarcasm meter is broken, but really? He.net freemont goes down a few times a year. We get an earthquake big enough to actually break things around here once every 10 or 20 years.

Even the really good data centers have outages more often than that, and he.net is decidedly low end in price.
Or is he? ;)
The power system at the Fremont 1 location is really on it's last legs, and sucks badly. Fremont 2 is better. I'm not saying Fremont 2 is awesome, but it's not as ridiculously bad as 1.

They claimed they were going to buy new power equipment after the last outage; I'm actually not sure if this current outage is a power outage or what; it looks like all my servers at Fremont 1 are still up (and have been since the last outage, some 9 days ago) and the network hasn't been great, but it hasn't been down hard, either.
Honestly, the fact it might be Defunded is the issue to me. I can't afford to offer healthcare in the old regime.
Thanks for the notification. I plan on pulling the code and trying it out!

(On another note, ARC is a very welcome addition to the language.)
I don't know why you got down voted here. My suggestion was flippant. Your comment was relevant and helpful.
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I have already opened a ticket to move to their Dallas location. Many people have told me it is the best. Wish I knew this upon first signing up with them...
Old Sprockets beta gems were yanked - not a cool way of doing things.
Hurricane Electric is a horrible ISP.

They offer bandwidth at very cheap prices but their hardware and connectivity is shit. The only reason why so many companies use HE is because they are up to 9 times cheaper than other ISPs. They got most of their peerings because they were an early IPv6 adopter.

I currently use Nearlyfreespeech.net and BuyVM/Frantech.ca for webhosting, and they both have/had problems with HE. NFSN uses HE currently only for IPv6 and BuyVM actually moved all their servers to Coresite. Prgmr.com also decided to move to Coresite, but I do not know if it was because due to problems at their Freemont location or not. (Maybe lsc can clarify this.) EDIT: As clarified by Luke, they did not move from Freemont (see his answer for more details).
No idea why you're getting downvoted. No application that uses their own push technology is as nice to my battery as C2DM is. Facebook and Twitter can't even get push notifications right, though Google refuses to put Google Voice through the push/sync that Gmail/Calendar/Contacts have. It makes no sense to me. It's there, it's easy to use, it's really battery friendly...
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- Eleanor Roosevelt
Read a few chapter from the 2005 edition (gray cover). Nothing special about this book. I vastly preferred studying from my professor's lectures, but he happened to be a great lecturer.
You can also view them on this site: http://www.cosmolearning.com/ in the computer science department.

I've found this site to be really helpful. Many of the universities' lectures that are available online have been submitted here. makes much easier to find them.And I occasionally run into some pretty interesting documentaries and stuff. ;)
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^ You can always delete your data, at least for the given list of products.
I found this interesting:
"Mr. Friend said the early indications were encouraging. Burglaries were down 27 percent in July compared with July 2010, suggesting that the targeted policing may have a deterrent effect, he said."

Rather than just catch criminals, it reduces the probability that a crime will be committed. The least expensive arrest is the one you don't have to make. Hope this pans out.
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Yes. It solves the wrong problem. The problem is that the cost of an employee exceeds the benefits. Everybody agreeing to take on employees whose costs exceed their benefits is just a mutual suicide pact. You can't get around that fact. If the benefits exceeded the costs, they would already be hiring, and there would be no problem to solve. If the costs exceed the benefits, then slapping yet more costs into the equation, even if everybody agrees to shoulder them, doesn't solve the problem!

And the idea that you can get entire industries to agree to mutual suicide is just idiocy. In the startup world, we call that a "boil the ocean" plan. Businesses would have massive incentives to defect.

This is all just blithering economic idiocy from top to bottom. (Of course, in NYTland, people never respond to economic incentives, and a business is prima facie acting immorally if their income exceeds their expenditures. Also, cost/benefit analysis is a radical and controversial political idea that must be downvoted, rather than a simple, direct consequence of basic economic reality.)
>Of course not.

Then you got carried away with your rhetoric earlier:

>Each successive generation ends up just a little more screwed than the last, as pregnancies roll into the mid-teen years, and generations start stacking. Women in their 30's, grandmothers.
Android is free, and, thanks to the miracle of open-source, will always be. Even if Google never releases any more code and decides to go on on its own (something that's highly unlikely), manufacturers can cooperate (or not) and continue its development and Google can do absolutely nothing about it except demand it to be rebranded.
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The water of the Mississippi river gets filtered and processed and drunk by the residents of Minneapolis, then their waste water gets dumped into the river only to be taken up and processed by St. Louis who also dump their waste water back into the river only to later run out of the taps of the residents of New Orleans.
Thanks for the link.

It seems running multiple instance of node.js and use a more updated version would helps (maybe).

Anyway, I always think that lack of threading support is definitely a feature instead of incompetency. Threading is hard and average developers should avoid it. (Unless you are doing scientific computing). If you need to scale, eventually you will need multiple servers anyway.
Interestingly enough my node is in the Fremont datacenter, and it hasn't been down since last week's power outage. I guess I'm one of the lucky people in the zone that didn't lose power.
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Fair enough. I was actually trying to (rather inarticulately I'll admit) pose a more meta-comment that wasn't directed specifically at Gruber, but rather at HN writ large. Stop posting (or at least upvoting) his dreadfully predictable blog posts where we'll spend the next couple days complaining about how he's an overbiased Apple fanboy.

Allow me to elaborate then -- while a rather good writer, Gruber is not interesting because Gruber is predictable:

1) If it's a subject that favors Apple, he'll write about favoring Apple.

2) If it's a subject that doesn't favor Apple, 99% of the time he'll spin it to death such that it favors Apple.

The formula then to a Gruber post is to take recent news, whatever it's about, make Apple looks good by the end of it.

The only time Gruber is interesting is when he actually does criticize Apple -- and Apple virtually has to start a program of using orphans to power their new office building for him to do it.

The meta-comment is that this is all known ahead of time. Yet every time Gruber makes a blog post 2 things happen on HN.

a) It makes the front page

b) Everybody spends 100 or so comments articulating #1 and #2 above. I mean seriously, are there any comment threads here that aren't in some way about this?

Let's look:

The top rated comment (and thread) is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2891450

The second one is also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2890090

The 4th one is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2890032

So if the 5th thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2889984

And the 7th: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2890017

And the 8th: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2890071

And the 9th: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2890586

and on and on and on.

Out of 15 threads (and I'm being charitable with what I'm calling a thread, there's really only 4 or 5 with any significant actual discussion) fully 10 of the threads are about #1 and #2 above.

This isn't a signal to noise problem, this is just noise. And worse yet, it's uninteresting noise because this is literally every set of comment threads for every Gruber post.

It's dreadfully dull stuff. So I'm adding my 2 cents into the "let's just stop feeding Gruber by relegating him to not the front page of HN and we don't have to suffer through another front page post with ~70% complaints about his bias" bucket. If people want to read his writing, and know when he posts something new, they can subscribe to his RSS feed.
The apps are all moving onto the web these days anyway - Ubuntu can run anything Chrome OS can.
Understood, but technically we're not supposed to submit to the App Store using beta versions of Xcode. Whether Apple would notice is a different story but a rejection would set us back so I'm not willing to risk it.
I don't think mainstream tv content is" dumbed-down" because the poor are getting more ignorant, and the only thing they'll understand is American Idol. It's 1) consuming content passively is the most enjoyable thing to do after long hours of soul-sucking work(escapism),2) Living vicariously through others via a rags-to-riches story(American Idol) gives a misguided and fleeting sense of hope(like lotto tickets), and 3)Learning about other people's problems(eg international news) is depressing when you can't see passed your own troubles. If it helps my point, I alsilo grew up around this environment.
"A centralized marketplace is a more efficient method for identifying providers."

That's spot on. Access to resources shouldn't be based on "special knowledge" Success in research should be a result of insights, creativity, and hard work, not "being in the know." Best of luck.
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I hate the fact that they don't link to that status page from anywhere. So when something breaks I usually spend 5 minutes looking around the site for that page before goggling or guessing it.
Fred - thats an awesome move!
Also, just realized that this project is now literally at the first position in today's trending repos on github.
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It would be cool to see if amateurs/hobbyists could someday make use of services like this.
There aren't really any deadlines.

For the most part people are working on things they're excited about, so everyone wants to ship as quickly as possible.

While we have fun, goof off, and can work whenever we want, we're all professional and respect each other. If I am blocking someone I am not going to take the day off.
Thank goodness. Bring on the 3.1.0 love, tenderlove ;)
That looks great! Good luck with it!
What are the next features that you are planning on adding? Have you figured out how you want to monetize this?
I really would love to see this work, but I have very very strong doubts. I hope you've done your market research, and aren't wasting time creating this website.

I've done scientific research, got published, so I saw this process first hand.

1) Grants are usually very small, only high end labs and a few science centers would do this (in my opinion).

2) Scientists are crazy about keeping their research private. There's a lot of competition and back stabbing going on in the scientific world.

3) Most scientists would find it very hard to rely on somebody they don't know. Experiments are extremely important, and often there's not much room for failure. Let's say you're a biologist who worked on a cell line for 3 years, and you finally have enough material to do an experiment. Would you ship it somewhere else to save some money?

4) Research projects that cannot be done locally are generally not approved. Meaning that the whole research project is financed and planned ahead of time. It's hard enough to get grant money, now imagine your proposed project has many more moving parts and points of failure.
I haven't moved from he.net at all yet, and I'm not sure if I'm moving from he to coresite or to svtix. Corsite is not exactly a great data center, either; I ended up with space there mostly 'cause I'm and idiot and stayed on my upstream's IPs, which gave them a lot of leverage over me, which they, of course, used. So now I'm in he.net fremont (around 3.6kw usable, not entirely used) in SVTIX (around 7.2Kw usable, not entirely used) and in coresite (around 7.2kw, not entirely used)

The cost per watt is best at SVTIX, and SVTIX has by far the best power uptime record. (On the other hand, as the reseller who strongarmed me into mpt points out, SVTIX is run by a real-estate guy; it has no right to be as reliable as it is. But, it's a friendly real-estate guy who seems to be willing to listen to me, very non-corporate, so one option is for me to get more involved with managing SVTIX. Hell, I've started packing the BOC staff with my friends already, and my last reseller has burned his bridges with this guy, and burnt those bridges quite thoroughly, so I smell an opportunity for me.)

My K5 review of market post tower, a coresite data center:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2011/6/2/54516/27653

Please note, that review was written for a Kuro5hin audience; which is to say, it was written for the sort of people who would have been on 4chan 10 years ago if 4chan was a thing 10 years ago, so the tone is, uh, rather unprofessional. But the point stands, MPT is not a great data center. I mean, it's worlds ahead of he.net fremont 1, but that's not saying a lot.

Now, the big advantage of market post tower, the corsite location, is that it's the center of the world, bandwidth wise, so I should be able to do some peering and get more providers as I level up my networking knowledge, and I have a cheap gigabit line between market post tower and svtix.

As for he.net bandwidth, well, yeah. It's the cheap stuff. But really, it's about as reliable as most tier 1 ISPs; the thing of it is, he.net is a tier 2, and perfectly willing to pay for bandwidth if they can't peer, so peering spats (which are ridiculously common) are not a problem. Tier 1 ISPs? if they get in a peering spat (see the level3/cogent pissing match) you only have access to part of the internet.

Anyhow, in my position, it's absolutely retarded to only have one upstream. He.net and Cogent is a mix I'm looking at, and so long as I don't f*ck the BGP config, between the two of those, I should be both more reliable and cheaper than one of the higher end carriers.
your sarcasm meter is broken.
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Apple (been around pre-Internet), Ford, Chevy, Coke, etc.
What about if you just don't want to use Xcode 4.x, because it's (still) missing Xcode 3.2 feature(s) that you use on a daily basis? :)

Looks like a cool library though! Once they manage to make Xcode 4.x work as well as Xcode 3.2, I will try it.
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Seasteading won't work, in my opinion.

Basically, ask yourself: who will turn up first?

Two groups.

Group A will be purer-than-thou libertarians, who will immediately fall into bickering over whether they should pay for the diesel or not.

Group B will be criminals who Group A will not, due to their purity, be able to evict.

Eventually Group C, a nearby superpower with the world's largest navy, will grow tired of having a lawless nest of criminals nearby and will go flush it out. Because conveniently, that nest will have no sovereignty that it cares to recognise.
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That was an video made at Microsoft. It is an example of a personality trait called "taking a chill pill and being able to laugh at yourself". Source for this info : http://www.ipodobserver.com/ipo/article/Microsoft_Confirms_i...

BTW, Microsoft's packaging of its hardware products is very sleek and futuristic.

Disclaimer : I'm an MSFT intern (and in a week I won't have to type this anymore phew).
My favorite part is where he says he'd like to unsuspend the one guy's account, except that he used a Naughty Word and so there's no way he can do that now. I mean, what the, ahem, fuck?
Join the party. As someone who was recently ripped for $12k+, it's nice to see folks fighting back. In my case the work I did continues to remain online and in use by the original owner while I try to get l my client(who runs a sham design agency) into jail for writing returned checks--and having a history and a prior conviction of doing so.
Ah, from the original source. Thanks!
Any incremental improvement in recommendations is useful, more so than just advertising. Now if it's finding books that I wouldn't find on my own.... Wowsers! But that's just me.
I can appreciate the effort and the sentiment of this post, but it definitely reveals a "shoot from the hip" mentality at the company.
I think perhaps you meant to write "...pay other scientists to repeat your experiments?"

(Their experiment might not reproduce your results. It happens!)
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http://www.bursar.gatech.edu/student/tuition/Fall_2011/Fall1...

I get your argument, but the cost is far past $1.

$11,110 per semester out of state for guaranteed tuition plan and $1,185 in fees.

in state is $1,185 in fees and $2,248 per semester.

So here are starting and mid-career salaries (medians) for different colleges:

http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/best-engineering-colle...

And I guarantee you 100k a year buys you a MUCH nicer house in Atlanta than in LA (further skewing the value).
I used it as my first introduction to Ruby, and it was perfectly suited for that. Easy to read, whimsical, and it actually managed to communicate the joy of programming. I've been recommending it to friends who don't know any programming languages for a while. (For context, when I read it I already knew C, Bash scripting, and bits of PHP and Python).
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WTF!?! Hmmm, all the online marketers I know are going to be very disappointed about this news. LOL.

btw, just worked my way through your ROR tutorial - thanks for YOUR contribution to online learning. A big reason I am signing up for the Stanford courses is because of the great fun I had working my way through your Rail Tutorial. Online learning is awesome!
I flagged it, this constant noise about Gruber's Apple religion drowns out any conceivable signal of interest. Better to just link to a Reuters article or something and have a better discussion here.
I think this is a strong datapoint that YC isn't just random consumer web features!
Oh okay, interesting. Thanks for the reply! It's good to hear insight from others. Do you know about the lower end? This is a little bit offtopic, but I'm not from the area - would 60k be a livable salary?
Agreed.

It's an awesome bit of hackery getting that & all the other systems running in realtime.

Respect, Dwarf Fortress, respect. :)
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It more likely reveals a single person who works for this company that personally performed these actions. People all to often attribute the actions of individuals inside a company as the actions of the company. The two are not the same.
I think the Redditor complaining isn't being entirely fair (shock horror, wronged customer doesn't represent both sides of the issue), and I think they handled this the best way they could once it got so big by issuing that statement. That said, it still positively reeks of unprofessionalism, from the smilies in the text to the inarguably weak reasoning:

> It is our policy not to discuss client accounts with anyone but the account holder. I have unsuspended your account and hope that this allows you to retrieve any data required.

Pretty sure that I'm not the account holder, and yet he's discussing the details with me? I would certainly think twice before considering them as hosts.
Citation? Sorry, but it's been in Ubuntu for ages, and that's what I use.

As for the visual cues, it looks a lot like OS X. Currently focused windows has a highlighted top bar and pronounced shadows and is in front of other windows. As for where the keyboard and mouse events... keyboarrd goes to focused window, mouse goes to where you click. It makes sense.
The fastest and easiest route to overall strength I've found(and regularly recommend in these types of threads) is isometric training on bars and doorframes. Daily 5-second holds at max power, done a few times from a few different angles, are sufficient to build strength from the toes through the fingertips, including the joints as well as the muscles. Each time I do it the body naturally buckles in a slightly different area, reflecting the current "bottleneck" of overall strength.

About 13 months in, the only kind of pain I get now is from sitting for _too long_ in a static position, which is already established as problematic in other ways.