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When thinking about switching jobs, you could try applying values to additional factors and seeing where you come out.

For example:

Great weather - "Ok, I'd take $5k/year less for that."

Boring work - "Hey, I'd have no problem doing something boring for a few years for an extra $25k."

It's far from an exact science but it may help you figure out what it's actually worth to you. (Some things may be priceless as well, e.g. "There's no amount of money I'd take to work for Phillip Morris."
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I've never heard of any well-known economist arguing labor and capital are the same; got any reference? While labor and capital are indeed factors of production, they are quite distinct. Capital is the accretion of past labor and serves to augment the effects of the current.

If and when the robot dream is finally realized, it would be novel insofar as it involves the unprecedented production of laborers through an economic process. The debate over the effects of bringing new workers into the economy has, however, been played out many times. (E.g. regarding cheap robots for unskilled work cf. Chinese immigration in the 19th century.)
The manufacturing comparative advantage sits with ASUSTEK, so you ought to ask that question the other way around: Could ASUSTEK have acquired Dell (on a shorter time horizon, that it). And the answer could be yes, with some sort of leverage AKA loan involved.
Yeah, it makes me wonder if we'll ever see a programming language that uses "colour." Are there any out there? We must do something to reverse this trend!!!
Fair enough, I re-read it.

I'm thinking about "perspective" -- the word suggests a relationship to something bigger. For example, when an artist draws with perspective, there is a point on the horizon toward which lines extend. Removing constraints may be a useful exercise, but removing all constraints would, in a sense, remove all perspective as well. So I think I'm looking for a perspective that's constrained by what's true, rather than one that's unconstrained.

I guess this is what I find inconsistent. There's this idea: "Until we let go of our mental images of who we are or who we should be, our vision remains clouded by expectation." But in the same paragraph, there's a notion of "self improvement." If I remove all expectations of who I should be, how can I measure my self improvement (assuming I intend to improve myself in the first place)?

There's the potential here to replace stressing out over a question like "am I a good father?" with stressing over things like "am I nothing? Am I improving? Am I myself yet?" Might this be just another "path to insanity?" Just a thought.
Well it's good enough to make him a very rich man. Oh and when did you get a chance to look at his code and designs?
This is exactly what I'm planning, and have wrote about in my follow-up post: http://ashraful.org/browser-features/

In particular, you can install these native apps and no longer need to download the UI again and again, instead just get the updated data. And access the past data even when you're offline.
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One of the Roman emperors did this. He ensured there was perpetual war in order to unify Rome.

Also a theme that shows up in 1984.
Its more than just a new UI.

Read here: http://ashraful.org/browser-features/
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> The more mathematical nature also makes it less magical and rickety to the self taught programmer (such as myself). That I think is the real advantage. But there is nothing inherent in OOP that stops it from also being built from more rigorous foundations.

I feel that OO the paradigm is rickety, a marrying of ad hoc semantics and syntactic sugar, and that it is inherently limited.
Interesting you mentioned exoskeletons. The US is 5 to 10 years away of getting them on a battlefield.

Actually that's a very good point, and a fascinating demonstration of the differences in commercial funding for a technology vs military funding and the similar but completely different kind of tech that comes out of that.
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The Magnavox Odyssey -- is it still fun today?
Interesting, this is the third alternative I've heard of what HP should do with webOS, the others being open sourcing it or selling it to a company that will actually do something with it.

Unfortunately, it seems like HP will probably lock webOS in a vault for its patents, dooming it to die.
I also "set undodir=/tmp" so that it doesn't litter my working directory with persistent undo files.
>Why is Apple 'revolutionary'?? Personally, I don't think they are. A revolution requires an 'overthrow of a government or social order for a new system'.

I couldn't disagree more. Look at the impact of the iPhone. Motorola, Nokia, Palm, RIM and Windows Mobile have either changed their business, their impact on the marketplace has been greatly reduced or are out of business. This is the effect of a revolution. Had the iPhone not been revolutionary there wouldn't have been this kind of disruption in the market and it wouldn't have taken years for other OSes to catch up.

This is the same for the iPad. HP, the largest PC maker, has left the business and cited the iPad as one of the main reasons.
I was a beginner.
I paid $25 USD to get mine unlocked from htcimeiunlock.com. I'm told you can get them for half that price. Got an unlock code back about 15 minutes after I paid for it.
Naruto Shippuden 226
English subbed entitle "Battleship Island!"Senkan no Shima" (戦艦の島) will be released on Thursday (August 25, 2011)
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(+ 3 3) is really how arithmetic is performed in Clojure? Okay, I'm done with learning Clojure.
Oh, certainly it is. There are a lot of union jobs that pay well, though admittedly the better-paying ones require quite a bit of skill. My brother is a pipefitter, and while he makes more than many software developers, he is also qualified to handle pipe work (layout, welding, testing, etc.) in hospitals, hazardous chemicals and treatment plants, etc.

My father also runs one of the few remaining foundries and employs some semi-skilled, decently paid labor.

But, nether of those industries current employ enough people to make up for all of the folks who would want them. Or at least, until our infrastructure bill comes due -- a significant portion of the 50s and 60s era suburb/exurb buildout will soon require substantial investments just to have water/power/roads continue to function.
Comments like these is why I love HN. Thanks!
It seems to depend on the User-Agent:

< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 02:55:16 GMT
< Server: hi
< Location: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/81822/fans.jpg
< Cache-Control: private,max-age=300
< Expires: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 03:00:16 GMT
< Content-Length: 0
< Connection: close
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
<
* Closing connection #0

But with a quite common User-Agent:

curl -v http://t.co/emmQt03 -H "User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.04 Chromium/14.0.825.0 Chrome/14.0.825.0 Safari/535.1"
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 02:56:05 GMT
< Server: hi
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< Cache-Control: private,max-age=300
< Expires: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 03:01:05 GMT
< Content-Length: 183
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
< Connection: close
<
* Closing connection #0
<noscript><META http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/81822/fans.jpg></noscript><script>location.replace(http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/81822\/fans.jpg)</script>
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Whether one is focusing on national or global wellbeing, the point is the same-- the incentives work against either.
He'll have to apologetically briskly out-stroll Stephen Fry first.
Recent discussion on this topic at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2906434
If you like this idea but want to work more on truly internalizing it, I highly recommend reading 'A New Earth' by Eckart Tolle. I read it twice (on my iPhone on the subway to work) and it made a big difference in terms of becoming happier and more effective in business and with friends and family.
Ironically, your example is reality!

Cake artists use fondant to make gorgeous high-price wedding and party cakes with intricate and beautiful decorations, but that taste awful.

It makes one wonder why we have an industry of cake art instead of wedding sculpture. I guess people appreciate the time-limitedness of the artwork for some reason.
A friend of mine reshared that post on G+ yesterday and I left this comment there:

"nymwars" is a big complicated thing that has far outgrown my ability to keep track of the nuances, so I don't understand what this means for my personal pet feature (showing different names to different people), but it's encouraging to hear that there is raucous debate inside Google.

I still think that the strongest argument for pseudonyms is that a system that doesn't handle them is Wrong, in the same way that "everything can be losslessly converted to ASCII" is wrong, or "an accurate map of a geographical area can be drawn on a flat surface" is wrong. Pseudonyms aren't a feature you can decide whether to support or not, they're part of the problem that you're trying to solve.
Has anyone read his book Tempo who can comment on it?
Why are you waiting till December?
I'm not so sure. Look at all the companies that have non-automated support: Best Buy, Comcast, Bank of America, and so on. Nobody likes those companies either.

Ultimately, being nice to people doesn't scale. And making money requires scaling.
Let's talk about a) only.

It depends on who this cofounder is and what role he is going to play. Does he have a narrow skill or market experience that is useful for a specific idea? Then post-idea. Is this someone with whom you've had rapport for a long time and many times said "hmm, it would be nice if we worked together on something"? Then pre-idea.
The media publish what their audience wants to look at.
Don't wait on the media, wait on the public, and seek out media outlets not by how much you respect the publisher, but by how much you respect the taste of the audience.
I am rarely moved to comment on a post. This one seems to be especially thoughtful and sincere.

I understood the core message to be we shouldn't let labels that define some aspects of who we are constrain us.

Or, in programming terms: mixins not class hierarchies :)

Favourite quote: "True self improvement requires becoming a better version of our selves, not a lesser version of someone else."
Yes. Also, I don't know if you would agree, but I think any hacker bootstrapping a startup should instead read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Start-Small-Stay-Developers-Launching/... It's written by a developer (a real one, who can actually code, not just talk about startups) who has really done it on his own - filled with valuable advices and thoughts. Every time I see someone talks about some startup book written by a marketing guru, I can't help but recommend this one instead.

As a side note, I'd like to point out that a lot of scam books appeared on amazon in the marketing and startup sections lately. The worst thing, they all got fake 5 star reviews, so it's not always clear right away this is a scam.
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As annoying as this is if you're writing something that depends on t.co using proper HTTP status codes, it's really fantastic for users of Twitter.

It masks the referer header, which protects my privacy without breaking sites that rely on the referer header.

Secondly, and much more importantly, it gets rid of privacy-destroying URL shorteners like bit.ly that give the posters statistics on their tweets.

It might be a tiny annoyance to some developers, but the privacy gains are fantastic.
What are you not sure about?
The folks at News Corp should do an internal house cleaning before they go on about "moral decay".
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Cheap credit is a luxury. You're ignoring a host of mitigating factors.

If your choice is 850 days of food vs. a TV, and you opt for the TV, you're not poor. (Derived from [1] above.) With over two years of energy literally under your belt, paying off that cheap loan and earning far more, even under adverse conditions, leverages you well outside poverty.

"Poor on paper" is unconvincing, given the opportunity for wise choices.
you can actually just search twitter for that http://t.co URL e.g.: http://twitter.com/#!/search/http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FISHbpUw, but also Twitter says it will be releasing an API to make it easier for analytics providers to provide analytics about the links shared: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tco-link-wrapper-faq#How_do_I_p...
Awesome essay from Paul, very insightful.

This mindset is good at not only helping yourself become yourself, but placing the best people in your life.

If you spend your entire life trying to please everyone you meet, decide who you should be friends with and who you shouldn't, and become a person that others will like more, you will ultimately not make friends who you would have by just being yourself. And those are the friends you want most.

Perhaps even worse, you could waste endless amounts of time on people who you think you should be friends with or have in your life, but really shouldn't. Sooner or later, the relationships with these people that you built on the foundation of some artificial idea of yourself will crumble. If you know that you are nothing, then become yourself, you will be surprised how many amazing friends you will find in your life.
Why not take it one step further with:

nore <Space> :

Let your thumbs do the work.
I think it's just that everything that people once thought valuable has become a commodity, so only intelligent people prosper ;)
They prefer automation over everything. And that aim will keep biting them in the ass.

The other companies people hate don't automate anything. But everyone still hates them.
Why would this break the web?
While the flexibility and portability of Vim is quite attractive, I doubt I could really retrain myself to use the modal interface. Are there packages/scripts/whatever that would allow one to use Vim in the way that one would use a more "normal" text editor?
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The tagline should be a bit more clever and tell you what's unique about the service. I get the abstract sense that this site has some connection to dating, but you haven't given me a reason who I should take the time and sign up with my Facebook ID. Also from a branding point of view the site feels a impersonal a minimal to me.
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But what if we actually want to eat meat? What if we want a TV? A refrigerator? A dishwasher? A mobile phone? A car?
The downside there is you have to use godaddy.
Potential solution: LuckyCh.at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.at
Vim == modal

Without modal interface vim is just another editor. Modal is fundamental to vim's power.
Or create a second game in that time frame, with lessons learned from the first.
Gvim in insert mode is essentially a "normal" editor, I.e. You can use it like ms notepad. But that would defeat the whole purpose. It takes memorizing about a dozen key bindings to be proficient with basic editing, and then you're off to the races. You'll have no problem.
Right, because cell carriers are a completely free market. It's a good thing that we kept the government out of the cell carrier market... oh wait...
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I'm not a vim scripter, but I'd be willing to bet you could make a (very very simple) script that would dump you back into input mode after a single command. That, or use a gui vim and ignore the whole command-mode thing (probably augmented with the before-mentioned script) and use buttons.
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You might be interested in Cream:

http://cream.sourceforge.net/
How about learning functional JavaScript?
~0% interest rate doesn't imply monetary stimulus. At least not when the rate gets hiked as soon as inflation goes over 0% or so, which is what the Bank of Japan has been doing.

In other words, BoJ has _explicitly_ targeted stable to falling prices in its monetary policy. That's not monetary stimulus; that's just contractionary policy. What interest rate target they use to implement that policy isn't really relevant.
As I recall, the UK keyboard layout was designed to allow entry of every character in the ASCII and EBCDIC character-sets, which explains why it includes "¬" and both vertical bar ("|") and broken bar ("¦").

Putting double-quote above "2" makes perfect sense if you've ever looked at an ASCII table. A lot of 8-bit micro-computers did that, even in America - for example, the Apple II.
Thanks. My failed search was for a substring (i.e. t.co/ISHbpUw) since that's what I see in Google Analytics but that failed; searching for the full URL resolved that problem.

My previous post was also poorly worded. I have no knowledge over whether t.co statistics will be free or not; only that I don't think there is a free way to get them now; I haven't investigated if there were available paid options. The situation of tracking which tweets are giving you traffic is still poor right now, but it might improve in the future.
100% of all articles claiming 83% of Google+ users are inactive don't even bother to define what inactive means, let alone divulge how they managed to calculate the number.

Even when you follow the blogspam trail past gigaom to the article they linked, you still don't get a definition for inactive.

If you keep following to http://findpeopleonplus.com, the original data source, you can click to see the list of people who are "inactive". As near as I can tell from playing with the site and comparing inactive filter to active filter, inactive means the person hasn't made a post to their public non-circle feed... if that's the case it is a fairly poor way to measure this as I have a fair number of people in my circles who are quite active on my feeds but haven't posted anything marked fully 'public' yet.
Thanks for your explaining the US culture. It helps a lot, especially for a Chinese like me who watches a lot of Hollywood movies without having been to United States.

I've tried searching the copy editor, and it seems it worth to try those service.
They probably could but the users don't want to pay the premium for that. PC users that always bring up the cost argument remind me of the guys from the mad max movies who build those insane looking frankencars. Why buy a BMW when you can get the parts to do the same thing from miscellaneous cars. Most PC users do care about design but not to the levels of detail that Apple puts into their computers. They want to spend the money where it counts for them and that's on the guts.
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The argument of "jobs America doesn't want" is completely false. You are assuming that all jobs in manufacturing are $10/day jobs that only poor Chinese people may want.

While there are many under payed workers, attached to these industries are thousands of high paying jobs that become part of the manufacturing environment: managers, engineers, service people, and entrepreneurs that participate in the supply chain.

For China, while it is convenient to have a large population base that works on $10/day, the goal is to create a middle class that manages these people and eventually creates new companies, while at the same time making way much more money.
This would be perfect for canvas games. It means that image.gif doesn't have to load, which typically requires initializing a new Image() and attaching an onLoad function. This simplifies all that.
I have abandoned my path.
I have forsaken my role.
I have forgotten my name.
I have lost my soul.

-- unpublished fiction
Is this really a huge deal? I haven't really been using Google+ (after I finally dropped Facebook, I guess I just... stopped caring about this sort of thing), but this topic keeps showing up everywhere.

I'm not sure why it's a problem. Google+ isn't that kind of website to me. Reddit, HN, etc. are really in a different class of websites and should be treated as such. Google+ is like my Address Book. I want real names, because they look nice. I should not that (in my mind) this doesn't make "JK Rowling", "Mark Twain", or "Jon Stewart" unacceptable. "rms" or "natesm", on the other hand, aren't the sort of thing that I'd want to see on Google+.

Similarly, I have Adium set up to display real names and real pictures instead of ugly AIM screen names. I don't talk to ladygagafan05, I talk to "John Smith".
Twitter's namespace problem is inherent to a single party controlling a centralized service.

If you want to truly own and control your own namespace, you should support services that are distributed, like the rest of the Internet.
There's no downside to GoDaddy for domain names, you're just jumping on the "fuck GoDaddy" bandwagon. I have dozens of domain names through GoDaddy and have never had an issue. Just set your DNS servers to something else and you never have to visit GoDaddy again.
https://github.com/skalnik/vim_config
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Conversely, this is why I like reading things in the realm of philosophy and political science. As an engineer by trade, I feel there's a more freeform in those areas and I tend to read philosophy and political science to escape and relax. Perhaps I became an engineer out of expectation and my true nature would have led me to the liberal arts. There's nothing wrong with either science or liberal arts, as long as one is nothing and knows who they are and studies what interest them.
You can either be quick or you can be thorough, usually being thorough switches your article from being O(n) to O(2^N). Much easier to reword a news release from somewhere than to actually comprehend what the article is saying & verifying it's logical. When eyeballs matter, getting the words out quickly matters more than what the words say.
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> Those people don't want the lifestyle afforded to Chinese factory workers but the fact is that this lifestyle is an improvement for the vast rural Chinese underclass

Why do you think this might be true? The only reason Chinese workers are poor is that they government let companies treat them as slaves. I don't think we should even consider that taking part on this is fair to Chinese people. On the opposite, agreeing with the practices of the Chinese government is exporting poverty to other parts of the world.

If you think that the advantage is that Western countries get cheaper products, this is wrong again: we could get cheap products anyway, but just using more machines instead of semi-slave labor.
So, what's the difference between Thick Lips and Fat Lips? I am a Chinese who doesn't understand the language quite well. It seems Americans will use "fat" instead of "thick" to describe the lips?

Besides that, according to other comments, "Thick Lips" sounds like it might be a racist slur against black (African) people. Do you think "Fat Lips" will get rid of this issue, or I should try another completely different name?

Thanks for your brainstorming anyway :)
Does It Matter That Amazon Can't Manufacture A Kindle In The USA?