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Non-mobile version here:
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/22/139670971/when-not-to-quit-man...
Assuming this wasn't some sort of kickback, doesn't the willingness to pay contractors £2k per day while shedding full-timers suggest that there is something absolutely crippling about the terms for full time employment?

Is it regulation?
This is about Samsung using Google's software and getting sued for it. How is that "teaching the East a lesson"? That's framing it as some cultural pudding match that makes no sense to most HN readers (or else he'd have a positive ranking.)

Add in the fact that most people here think software patents have serious problems, at the least... And it's pretty easy to see why it was down-voted to me.
You can use this library in 1.8 or 1.9. It's especially nice in 1.9 because you can use it to tag strings with the correct encoding based on it's content, which has been a huge source of frustration in 1.9 up to this point.

Really though, the pain in the ass has little to do with 1.9 - encodings are just a pain because they aren't universally supported. So we'll often times get handed bytes with no encoding context so we have to assume or use detection libraries like this.

One argument is "well just use UTF-8 for everything" or "just pass everything around as binary then it'll be fine" - but unfortunately we don't live in a world where either of those solutions will work for everyone.
The actual report is here:

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4218914/IBM-plants-t...
I'd buy this argument if a CS degree qualified you for a programming job. It doesn't. It doesn't even mean you can program. You're expected to learn all of the skills that a programmer uses on the job on your own time. What if instead, you went to university for a pre-programming degree (CS) that was math and theory heavy, then went to a 2-3 year programming school, then went into some established shop for your 3-8 year residency?

My guess is that the profession would become a lot more attractive to the average kid that is very smart, but doesn't have an interest in law or medicine. Other guesses are that security would become absurdly good in general, and a lot of tools would be perfected.

Instead, the importance is placed on loving programming, because you're going to have to love figuring out what you need to be educated in and love providing for that education out of pocket, and with no credentials to show for it. So you're on an equal playing field with anybody off the street when dealing with an HR department, and at a disadvantage against a CS graduate who may not be able to program to save his/her life if you didn't go to school to learn the math, but simply learned your profession.

To have a capital-p Programming educational track like Law or Medicine could really be a boon for the profession in most ways in my opinion. Could somebody tell me where the Perl class is? Because I can't seem to find it or get student loans to cover it.

The one thing that I think would be problematic would be an injury to Free/Open Source software, because practitioners wouldn't feel the necessity to put that evidence out there that they actually can program, like surgeons don't feel like they have to stream over the web live operations they are doing for free.
"dtSomeTimestamp": "2011-08-24T18:02:00.000Z"

Is that a date and time, or a string that just happens to look like a date and time?

JSON doesn't know the answer, so a convention outside of JSON will need to decide.
Where does it say that they're being sued? The text merely states that:

> Bloomberg News sorted through more than 29,000 pages of previously secret documents and Fed spreadsheets detailing more than 21,000 loans to compile a database showing which companies got the emergency liquidity, and when.
Nothing worse that righteous preaching...who knows what the op reasons are for upgrading...there could be very compelling reasons to move very quickly especially with Apple. Some models of newer Mac won't run anything older than the current OS release
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http://davidseah.com/blog/2011/07/toms-moleskine-emergent-ta...

Give that a look at and check out the emergent task planner/year planner.

Disclaimer: I am not that David.
While I am geeky, I always felt that the graphing calculators did not contribute much to my math classes. And neither were they a significant gateway into technology - few people went beyond the simplest functionality.
Resolve #2 by thinking about your desired daily lifestyle (as opposed to the work or ideas). Comparing grand visions is impossible, so how would you be happiest spending tomorrow?

Regarding #1: I was pretty burned out after working on my startups for about 5 years. It paid the bills for those years, but I wasn't ready to commit to anything full-time again and I was still sore from the feeling of letting down all my co-workers & investors.

So I spent about half my time doing freelance work and the other half dicking around on whatever took my fancy. For the first few months, that was going to parks, boozing, trying out new cafes. Gradually I found myself naturally interested in programming projects again, and then I realized I was slacking off on my freelance gigs to pursue one particular idea. I was staying up late with the joy of coding again.

Anyway, now that idea has turned into a fulltime startup again and I couldn't be more excited. It was allowed to grow very naturally and I avoided the mistakes of rushing into something.

Anyway, infinite runway from contract work is a beautiful thing for letting the "right" idea find you, as long as you keep about half your time open for whatever.
Can this be related to the fact that Oregon has no Sales Tax?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_State...
I think the thing that gets forgotten when people talk about premature optimisation being evil is that premature pessimism is just as evil, and being sloppy is just being sloppy.

All things being equal, you should always choose the optimally performing solution. This does not have to come at the expense of correctness or readable coding style.

Often when the premature optimisation line is touted it's just an excuse for poor design.
IIRC many political figures in Latin America are doctors.
Living room design ideas, living room design ideas 2011
Living room design ideas. What is actually meant by the transitional living room design ideas? Transitional concept is meant to bring the old design combined with the modern living room design.
In the interest of expedience, let me be blunt: very few security researchers give a shit about how OS X Server uses LDAP.

We're all pretty busy lately, too.

(-2. You guys are funny. In case it matters: I'm not being snarky. They really don't).
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They do, but Bing and Yahoo does not provide enough volume.

I know of a few companies that sold $100 million worth of crap through Google adwords every month. There are at least a few hundred such companies.

Do the math to figure out how much Google made out of this :)
Been there. I'm sure most of HN has.

No one but you can decide if your best course of action is taking the sweet ass job or trying to launch a kick ass startup, or a combination of both.

It seems as though you're paralyzed by the abundance of ideas you have. Something you need to come to terms with is that an idea, for the most part, is worth only how well you can execute it. So, my advice is:
Pick one idea and give it your all. If you need to have a day job to cover expenses, etc., then do it on the side, but do it. Stop talking about your idea. Stop rehashing it over and over and over. Stop abandoning it and moving on to "some better idea". Just buckle up and enjoy the crazy ride. If you keep bouncing around from idea to idea, you're never going to get your feet wet actually trying to execute on it, which means when you have that golden idea, you'll be navigating uncharted waters, versus having the ability to say "I've dealt with this issue before. I can make it a non-issue."

You'll recognize (hopefully quickly) whether or not your idea has legs and can turn into something bigger/better/etc. But you'll never know if you don't pick something and go for it. Also, recognize that there's no harm in trying something then shifting gears and going a different direction (or going after another idea). It's a part of the game. Rarely will you ever see a successful entrepeneur that executed well on the first idea they pursued, while having that first idea remain very similar to its original concept during the "light-bulb" moment. Pick the idea that will give you the most enjoyment with high potential.

So, you seem to have answered your own question in Q2. Unless you have other financial resources to sustain yourself, then taking a job and pursuing your entrepreneurial goals on the side is likely your best option. There's no harm/shame in doing that. Be aware of the agreements you sign with the company you work for -- you don't want them claiming rights to what you do after work, etc.
The "highest standard" in an unsavory industry doesn't mean much.
I prefer taking all my notes on index cards. Notebooks failed me BC I ended up w/ short term (meeting notes) & long term (ideas) mixed, which made it hard to sort & hard to review.

Index cards I can throw away my meeting or call notes as soon as they end and easily group everything else.
I can confirm that. No calculators on the GMAT (at least when I took it 2 years ago).
Reminds me of this excerpt from Iacocca:

[...] my father had opened a hot-dog restaurant called the Orpheum Wiener House. It was the perfect business for somebody without much cash. All he really needed to get started were a grill, a bun warmer, and a few stools.

My father always drilled two things into me: never get into a capital-intensive business, because the bankers will end up owning you. (I should have paid more attention to this particular piece of advice!) And when times are tough, be in the food business, because no matter how bad things get, people still have to eat. The Orpheum Wiener House stayed afloat all through the Great Depression.
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Good stuff. I'd add that point 2 (Establish competence) and 3 (confirm pain) should ideally be connected in an educational fashion: start your meeting with data about your potential client's market (and pain), not your product or your company. E. g.: if you're selling collaboration software, provide some (reliable + interesting) statistics on how much time and money is wasted in unproductive meetings etc.

Also, and that's a general rule: ask, don't tell. Get them talking about their problem. If you really have a good solution for it, the most natural progression of such a conversation will lead to your product and why they want to buy it automagically.

I've had "sales" calls where I simply asked prospective clients whether they had a minute to tell me a little more about the problems they're currently facing (which are of course connected to our solution). Instead of pitching them on your product, the client's problem monologue often naturally flows to a point where they bring up the idea of using your solution to solve their problem.
Maybe so, but he should also probably revise his website starting with the confusing and grammatically bad copy:

"MicroMaximus is a simple on-demand service designed to assist Reward Checking Account holders' to supplement their monthly transaction requirements. MicroMaximus users will be able to schedule $1.00 transactions online quickly and securely enabling a higher rate of return."
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That screenshot is upsetting.
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Hadn't seen Vidyard before. That's a brilliant business model. Lots of people don't want all sorts of stuff crapping up their content. Plus, it's a perfect example of flying underneath Google. Google is not going to give up advertising any time soon. If Vidyard get big enough, Google can always buy them out and re-brand them as YouTube "premium" or slide them into their google apps for enterprise.
Look at the Aaron Wall post Patrick linked to upthread.
Bloomberg went to court to get that information from the FRB.
Second that --- same reason a baseball that Derek Jeter hits passing a league milestone is worth more than the one we buy for a few bucks in the store. It's all in the story.

It's random but likely that I even know who the guy is he's referring to; he's just stands out that much (AA initials?). He's a good storyteller but what makes him even more successful is that he's passionate about what he's selling--- a connection to the holyland--- not dirt.
"in order to you the pay should be proportionally to the good that they do to human?"

yes.

"Just pay proportionally to their skills!"

If I'm amazing at flipping burgers do I need to get amazing pay?
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Probably not.

It's actually a very exit-unfriendly state from a tax standpoint. Very high state income-tax rate and capital gains are taxed at your state income level as well.

However, it's pretty sweet to pay the price listed at stores and restaurants.
It would be good to have a formal statement about this somewhere because citing that article has scared some people.
How is that relevant? The government is not obligated to make a case against all offenders simultaneously. It has severely restricted resources for bringing major cases, and will bring them in the order that makes the most sense to the DoJ.
many cs majors are underexposed to operational and system concerns

so i'd add Jim Gray's 'Why Do Computers Stop and What can be done about it' http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-85.7.pdf

Also, 'Reflections on Trusting Trust' is a good one to add under security. I'd also recommend 'What's your threat model?' http://iang.org/ssl/wytm.html
> Look at the following photo and tell me that Samsung
> didn't completely rip off the iPhone's look and feel,
> right down to the icon layout

A grid of icons with text underneath is considered ripping off Apple now? Are you serious?

> Samsung had an opportunity to innovate in a way that
> would make the Galaxy S2 look and feel nothing like an
> iPhone and instead look and feel like a new, innovative
> product. They clearly didn't do that.

Have you actually used a Samsung Android phone? The "look and feel" is nothing like an iPhone. In some cases this is to Samsung's detriment. Just because one screen happens to look similar to an iPhone doesn't mean the entire UI is copied.

> Comments like "My G2 has a back button unlike the iPhone"
> or "But the icons have square corners instead of rounded
> corners!!", in my opinion, completely miss the point.

But they're entirely the point! You can not say on one hand that Samsung is incapable of differentiating their product, and then wave away all the ways in which their product is differentiated.

> The point is that Samsung is clearly trying their hardest to make their
> products look very similar to Apple's products.

Recall that iOS 5 has been announced with a notification tray that is a carbon copy of Android's notification tray. Taking good features from the competition and iterating on them is par for the course.
Not at the moment, but I'm considering the possibility of turning http://technicalblogging.com into a blog on the subject. If I go for it, I'll announce it on the newsletter.

Right now I'm entirely focused on putting the best of my advice into the book.
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%| I'm not sure what you're arguing here, or if you're just trolling. Are you seriously suggesting that people complete a 12 year program after which they need to join the 'programmers guild' (APA, if you will) before being allowed to write code? Are you seriously saying that somebody who writes his volleyball's club website at home as a hobby shouldn't be allowed to do so until he completes a 12 year study program? I guess there is some sarcasm in your post that was lost on me.
Published Jul. 26, 2000.

Really, this isn't that far off. We've got 4-, 6-, and 8-core chips running at 2-3 GHz, for an effective speed within an order of magnitude of 10 GHz.

Edit: Read through some of the comments for a good laugh!
Ask HN: What are some of the technical lessons learned at creating a start up?
I haven't been able to find much about the technical lessons learned. I found lot of high level non-technical and marketing advise.

It would really be interesting to get feedback as to what technical things did some of the founders learn.
The problem is that downvotes are used as a way of disagreeing with a comment. But what would be more productive and worthwhile is when there's differing perspectives there's a dialogue. Downvotes should be used to filter spam and other cruft but not differences of opinion.
When a company settles with a government (US/EU/etc) where does the money go? Is it just up to the government to spend it, or is it distributed to the plaintiffs or something else entirely?
The company is moving there. The company isn't trying to get a job like you were. The company is actually CREATING jobs there.
I'm going to guess that this is very simple; he probably just has the option for requiring a password at login turned off, or is using Fast User Switching enabled (i.e., the user is question was not really logged out, so logging in and entering a password is not required), or something like this.
* Software engineering (version control)
- Is that the best lesson we have to offer?

You mention probability in the beginning, but make no mention of machine learning.
I don't know how people do it -- I mean, I can cook and sometimes it is delicious, but it's nothing worst than waisting 2 hours on something and then at the end to find out that I blew the dish for some reason.

I also cannot eat the same food for more than 2 days in a row.

I used to do it when I was younger and didn't make very much, by sticking to a few well-known recipes. Making rice is easy, heating up some protein is straight-forward (bake some chicken, or put something on a stove-top pan), and boiling vegetables is simple too.

I'm no culinary master, but if you keep it simple there's no reason why you should be spending 2 hours to feed yourself. I could make my dinner in about 30 minutes, and that's including a lot of standing-around time where you could do something else.

Save the 2-hour cooking for the weekend when you have the time to try something new. Otherwise, keep the cooking times short and find something you like that is easy.
We're not a bank, but we view our customers as being the people who would use traditional banks. We partner with banks, and those banks are located around the country.

That said, our processing technology partner, TxVia, is located in NYC, as are several of our investors.
Related: Minimum-comparison sorting (http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~marpe/research/index.html#MCS)
Here's hoping that SpaceX can fill the gap

this might become a little problem for the Russians. until now their cost structure and reliability put them into a very comfortable position (especially for the launch of small to middle-sized satellites).

it's not always a pleasure for western costumers to deal with the Russians in the space field, due to their (legitimate?) space arrogance.
Umm... Eugene is not Portland. You should come on up to a rubypdx meetings some time -- really great people and almost always interesting topics. http://pdxruby.org/
The Netherlands is the Dutch uncle of Europe so naturally they are taken seriously throughout the continent.
Kidding aside, I believe since the NL is part of the European Union the judicial rulings passed there apply to the other countries-members of the E.U..
Machine learning gets a nod under AI.
Speaking in the context of a city-state/small-state fragmentation of the larger African states.
I don’t think it does.

If it did, then the LHS and RHS would be functionally identical, or nearly so. But they aren’t, because you can’t rewrite “New use of existing technology” to “man revived after 96 minutes w/out a pulse” in many contexts, or vice-versa, without a change in meaning.

English uses “is” for simple identity, but not as often as it uses it for other things.* Indiscriminately replacing “is” with “=” or “==” is usually only going to confuse any math or programming person trying to take it seriously. And if you don’t mean it to be taken seriously, using “==” for an equally long and much more ordinary word is just silly.

* For example, copula: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics) . This is the form of “is” in “Denver is south of here”. Clearly Denver is not equal to to predicate of relative southernness, or I could say “San Diego is Denver”.
OT, and completely uninformed question: how's the scene in recruiting straight from Portland State University?

(I ask out of idle curiosity, because I once had the opportunity to do an MS in CS there a while (6 years) back, and I passed up because I couldn't take on the financial burden - please drop me an email if you feel this might threadjack the discussion here.)
Ah, didn't realize it was that bad. Thanks
It was stated here, which was a link to the interactive graphics:

"Three years and 29,000 pages of Fed documents later, Bloomberg uncovered the who, what, when and a lot more in its investigation of the 21,000 loans to banks totaling as much as $1.2 trillion in public money.

I'll start by saying that Bloomberg was built on the core principle of transparency - fast access to information that could increase capital flow and economic growth. We also believe that the public has a right to know. (For a timeline of Bloomberg's lawsuit against the Fed, see below.)"

http://inside.bloomberg.com/blog/2011/08/bloomberg-uncovers-...
Here's the thing. Everywhere you go you should be learning. If you drop out of college and start to do stuff on your own you will lose access to the resources currently at hand, and you will no longer be forced/encouraged to do things outside your immediate interest.

If you start working on your own ventures you will make money - probably/maybe - and that will be cool. More, you can just work on the stuff you want to - maybe - but to earn money you may end up having to do a lot of grunt work that's not really enjoyable, not creative, and certainly neither stretches nor teaches you.

Do you really think you can make it on your own? Then do it now while still working on your degree. Having a startup is incredibly hard work. If you work that hard then you can do your degree and learn all this weird, wild-ass stuff that you otherwise wouldn't, and at the same time build something cool.

No, I wouldn't drop out. If you really have the drive you can make the most of this chance. It won't come again.

Just my $0.02, YMWV.

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I think there are some good points here but I always find the premise behind posts/articles/arguments like this a little silly. I don't think there's any correlation between respect and salary. And getting too caught up in what others think of you and your work is effort/thought/time wasted. Pick a career you like, do it well and respect yourself. If you get more out of it than that, great, but don't expect any more than that. Setting out on a "quest for respect" is more than likely going to end in disappointment regardless of whether you're a doctor, lawyer, engineer, bricklayer or some poor, poor programmer.
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My point was mainly just in regards to a word spelled with a say grave or acute accent doesn't necessarily originate from French.

And the origin was to demonstrate that this word is both misspelled, and has no direct relation to French at all since it originates from Italian.
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