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If you like listening more than talking then you're halfway there.

Showing warmth and that you're not a dick means listening to other people and responding to what they say (In my opinion). That may be an oversimplification.

I went for lunch with my sister a few months ago, she was having trouble making friends and being warm and open to new people. When the waitress came over I chatted with her a little bit and joked around because she nearly tripped as she approached our table. When the waitress left my sister asked me if I knew her - I didn't. She thought I had because of how we were talking to each other. I gave her a tip that she said completely changed how she approaches new people - she was already trying to just listen to what other people say and asking questions when it was her turn to talk but the thing that made it click for her was that I suggested to her that she should try pretending that they're already her friend. That tip made talking to new people easier for her. If you talk to people like they're already your friend then it's easier to be yourself, genuine, and warm and be interested in who they are.

It might work for you - your milage may vary.
Does this mean that the "Flatline" (See http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flatline ) will have to be relegated to TV and movie history?
You can't make valid inferences about the relative failure rates of the Soyuz rocket variants from two data points.
I think many people don't find cooking fun, it's like laundry or doing the dishes: it's a chore. I wonder if this is due more to cultural influences than anything. It seems there are plenty of other cultures (mostly European) that seem to really enjoy cooking, and so you find it more often in those places.
Very good point. I recently got bitten quite badly by having an external email parse api drop a whole lot of our support emails. I'm quite certain the error was on their side but theres no real way to prove it (besides log entries saying it was delivered to them, and none at our notification url).

Its a complicated proposition though. If I switch back to a home-brew system I'll lose a lot of the nifty features in exchange for more control.
"It would be called the Mac Desktop, and it would combine to form [the] iStack."

I really doubt that. Apple isn´t looking for this market anymore, just see what they did with Final Cut X . Professional things? Run it on a MacbookPro! Home stuff? Here are the exceptional Macbook Air.
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The more I read from Norvig, the more I am convinced that history will judge him as being one of the most influential computer scientists of the post-Turing era.

His ability to find elegant solutions in the hardest looking problems, and communicate them so well that you feel it was so obvious that you should have found it immediately, is unparalleled.
LoL, like Boston, NYC, or the Valley are any less of a joke.

All of America is same sprawling hollow suburbia.
I +1'd that page and nothing new happened. I'm disappointed.
Contrary to this view,forget the millionaires, most self made billionaires are programmers
You don't want to do business with someone who points out that we value life so much that the costs expended to save those lives are independent of any consideration of benefits?
Look into Sous Vide cooking. There was a big meme about it here on HN last year. It's vacuum cooking and let's you prep a ton of food passively to save you lots of time when getting it ready to eat. And it tastes better too. You could avoid flavor stagnation that way by having a variety of prepped things to choose from.
Would you consider adding time into the statistics? I agree with nasmorn that the absolute income would not come close to covering cost of living expenses that I'm familiar with, so having a sense of working hours would provide some valuable context.

Also - thanks for sharing the data!
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My favorite paragraph:

The nurse "called the emergency room doctor, who told him that I was dead and that they should walk away," says Snitzer. "And he hung up and he said to the rest of the people in the room, 'Is anyone else here uncomfortable with walking away from this?' And they all said yes. And it was at that point that he called Dr. White."
#2 appears to be the most enticing option. Although if you do decide to go with it you can also consider doing #1 with the "decent developers". I am not sure how you intended to create Browsr, but creating a javascript engine and other core browser features is no easy feat, I suggest you use the chromium project (Google Chrome) for the backend (core) and perhaps develop the UI from scratch.
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They didn't create value, they figured out a way to purloin value out of the casinos. Every dollar they gained was a casino's loss.

Much of programming is indeed like that, especially in the finance industry, where your gain is usually someone else's loss. There does exist true value-creating programming though. Games are an easy one; presumably the reason a customer pays $10 or whatever for your game is that the customer perceives more than $10 in entertainment value.
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I don't know your plans, but if banks (or Fiserv or FIS) are the ones paying you for a license to your front-end, then they are your customers. End users are the banks' customers, and in whatever contractual agreements you end up signing, based on my experience, the banks and their regulators will make absolutely sure you know that.

Also, you should change your name now before the regulators make you. Consumers think that financial companies with "bank" in their names are banks.
Missing: "How to install, use and administer Windows."

It is awfully sad how many of self-called "hackers" are unable to reconfigure an IP address on worlds most-popular desktop OS.

I have trouble trusting such "engineers" with ability to design great software when they couldn't even educate themselves on both major world perspectives on OS design.
They´ll pay me slightly more than my eletric bill? So, well, no thank you.
This is because of the BAR and the AMA. If there was an equivalent group for programmers that could get equivalent regulation this would not be the case. I think a group like that would solve a lot of the issues OP brings up.
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I imagine at that price point either:

1) The skill set is rare enough that the only choice for the company is to hire a contractor

2) The company only needs the skill-set for a short period of time, i.e it doesn't make sense to hire someone who'll cost 300k/year when you only really need them for three months
Indeed, here (Uruguay) it's, along with lawyers, the most respected profession.

Former (and probably future) president Dr. Tabaré Vázquez is an oncologist (and is an actual practitioner in between political campaigns).

So are several prominent politicians (my own political party representative, Dr. Daniel Radío, is a medical doctor as well)
Do better keyword research. What are the most common 2-word, 3-word, and 4-word phrases that folks searching for your product would use? Who are your competitors and what terms are they optimized for?

I see that you 'have' SEO, but it's not good SEO. You really need to do keyword research, get in the mind of the person 'googling' this stuff, and figure out what the hell a potential customer is calling your software before they see your website and learn that YOU call it 'construct 2' and 'creation tools' (which are terrible google search terms).

If you provide some of this info I may be able to provide more feedback, but seriously, you can do it yourself it's not rocket-surgery. https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
So notch was talking about piracy and his own game (minecraft). He basically says publishers should approach piracy as part of a game's marketing plan -- kinda like the free version you talk about here.

As for piracy killing your game... bull shit. Every game eventually gets pirated. All the games above you on the charts have been pirated. Why didn't piracy kill them?
My personal rule zero is to smile a lot. No matter who it is that you're speaking to, a smile make you instantly more likeable and trustworthy. It's tough to get used to (especially if you're the kind of person, like me, who frowns as their natural expression). I think of it like this though: no matter who it is that I'm speaking to, they're taking time out of their lives to listen. A smile shows appreciation of that. (Not to mention that smiling a lot helps you live longer [1].)

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_gutman_the_hidden_power_of_smil...
It's not sad. As a new service, people are going to check to see if it works at all before spending time doing something more complex.
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Indeed, I agree. I just hope they follow through and use this case as a precedent to shut down or severely harm the other ad networks that do essentially the same thing.
I wonder how well Vegas is doing for Zappos.

Portland, from all accounts, is beginning to look like a city-sized SOMA startup scene, and the city's personality certainly jives with the common stereotype of the hipster startup developer.

Vegas is certainly ideally situated for a place that wants a big warehouse, but I wonder how well Zappos are attracting tech talent. I can imagine Vegas might be a fun place to be, or it might be hell. I'd try it out for a year. It's certainly very different.
Ask HN: Review my project (1000memories for pets)
Hey guys,

I submitted a show hn 5 days ago that only managed to garner 1 upvote so I thought I would ask you guys for some feedback instead.

Basic idea here is 1000memories for pets. There are actually a number of other sites (go ahead and search online pet memorials) but none of them are really up to date. This is most certainly a MVP but feedback on price, design, content, etc is all very welcome!

The sites url is www.thepetmemoir.com
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Yeah, this sort of "what if" thinking can be really hard. Thus far, all my employment opportunities have come from resources outside of school, and I have no reason to believe that that will change anytime soon, but as you mentioned... these things can change often and unpredictably.

Regarding the music major: Music is very important to me, and at the university I'm at I'm surround by people who inspire me to do my best work. I get inspired to program by reading books, HN, /r/programming, etc, not by sitting in my classes.
Yeah, that's a good point. I suppose I figured that, at least in this community, people would tend to view cooking as a creative endeavor not unlike hacking, rather than some menial repetitive task. Different strokes.
Seemingly they cannot compete with Android in the normal way so they try the patent troll angle.

Ah yes, it's overwhelmingly obvious that Apple is the underdog in the mobile phone space! They've never been able to compete on their own, and that's why they resort to such tactics.

Look, everyone is suing everyone in utterly ridiculous greed/patent-lawsuits: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/whos-suing-whom-i...

It's just the way the sad, sad game is played.
News.YC community is being much kinder towards Apple than it acted towards Dropbox for identical security bugs. Dropbox even had the issue resolved in hours.

I don't see anyone threatening to switch away from Apple or demanding an immediate personal response from Steve Jobs or ranting how this lapse is unforgivable.

And you can't say it's because this bug only affects a small portion of Lion users as the Dropbox bug also only affected 100 accounts.
Not all tasks can be performed in parallel. It may make more sense for the DoJ to investigate and settle with Google first, and then leverage that success to make a compelling argument to other companies, with the settlements adjusted proportionally to any illegal profits that were gained.

You are assuming that some people/companies are not touched by the law at all for the same activity, but often it's just a case of not being able to bring all those cases simultaneously.
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You don't mention any stack/concatenative languages explicitly - is that just an oversight, do you feel there's less to gain from them than the others explicitly listed, or did you leave them out for some other reason?
They say in the blog of the project that the model with Ethernet and 2 USB ports is $35. The pictures are probably from that model, not from the $25 one.
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Are you talking about the "Network accounts unavailable" red light? If you wait ~20secs, it generally resolves itself. Definitely a bug, but just an annoying one.
Given those numbers, you'd have a statistical expectation of one life saved for every 150 hours spent. Say $100/hr for salaries+bennies for two parametics, 15K per life saved. I think it's worth it.
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Visit Pittsburgh someday. We have some hollow suburbia but we don't have the typical endless suburban sprawl. We do have a fair amount of hipsters though, just a warning.
Minimum wage is a decent metric for assigning a dollar amount to free time slices. Suddenly cooking all the time doesn't seem as beneficial money-wise. (There are a bunch of other, better, reasons to cook though.) Personally I don't enjoy the process of cooking or cleaning, so on top of the time there's also some psychological stressors involved, and I don't want the overhead of a bunch of cooking devices and spices and so forth that I'll only ever use a few times a year. I have the necessities for when I do cook and even that feels like a bit too much.

If I ever have kids I suspect I'll be forced to change my attitude, or find a wife who absolutely loves to cook. Not giving your kids home-cooked meals when they're home the majority of the time seems near the line of parental abuse to me. Don't even talk about the parents who feed their kids nothing but McD's.

Edit: I'm going to throw in a plug for http://www.cookingforengineers.com/
In brand advertising, it's all about exposure. Even one with no money to buy the article (or maybe not enough interest/motivation) can spread the word or endorse the brand to the ones who have money.

According to BJ Fogg of Stanford on Simplicity, one person is always floating in cartesian plane with time/money changing all the time and being a function of age, location, time of day.

One might have time and is not prepared to spend money and vice versa. And this can change during the day. So, if one gets a brand exposure in the morning when they have spare time to re-type two brand words, they might not have time in the afternoon when they're located at brand outlet, so they'll spend money.
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Oh no, SMS just died. What's next?
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This domain is blocked by my work firewall as "pornography". Too bad.
Good point, I missed this entirely. A Forth-derivative of some sort would be useful.
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To nudge this closer to a legal context (but IANAL), I think the GP comment is invoking the general idea of equal protection under the law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause). That is, the government should not selectively prosecute cases against those it does not like (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_prosecution).

As the wiki article notes, this kind of argument tends to not be very successful.

One guidepost on when Equal Protection claims are more likely to be successful is the notion of "strict scrutiny" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_scrutiny). For instance, if prosecutions are taken against people of one ethnic group, then these prosecutions are subject to a higher degree of judicial scrutiny and are more likely to be overturned.

As the parent comment to this one notes, targeting the most lucrative violator would seem to not be prejudicial in this way.
Why don't we exalt those who created such great things that we take for granted?

Because there are too many of them. Look around you. The objects you can currently see or touch have been built though the effort of, literally, tens of thousands of people. My MacBook alone is the work of a small city's worth of designers, engineers, techs, modelers, miners, carpenters, accountants, physicists, chemists, machinists, architects, caterers, truck drivers, and so on. You couldn't read all their names aloud in a week even if you knew their names.

We do give people individual credit, sometimes. The movies have credits with names in fine print. And a few lucky (?) people become archetypes: They're the ones who appear in the encyclopedia under inventors.

But mostly engineers and other builders take pride in the results. To praise a Pixar engineer, praise the movies. To praise an Apple engineer, praise the MacBook Air (which by the way is absolutely excellent). To praise my semiconductor engineering, talk about how thin your phone is or how good its reception is. Most of the credit isn't mine, but a little of it is, and that's going to be good enough.

I disagree that our country would be a better place if we all spent even more time blowing sunshine up each other's butts. Rather, I think the world benefits from teamwork: People who do their jobs effectively and consistently and take pride in the results.
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I agree. I'll split it out into its own section.
Thanks for sharing that. I had no idea. My comment exposes how culturally ignorant I am, and for that I apologize.
We had 70+ people show up to the first one last month. It was a lot of fun! The only problem was the venue (too small, too hot, too loud), and Rand from SEOmoz volunteered up his office for this one - so problem solved! They'll also be providing snacks and beer. :)

We also have a speaker this time - Marcelo Calbucci will be talking for 10 or 15 minutes about the "State of Startups in Seattle."

Please RSVP if you're going to come (and don't if you're not). Looking forward to seeing everyone!
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Yep, copy/paste error.
Thanks Jayant! I'll email you shortly.

Cheers!
Looking at their financial sheet, I'm not sure any of their business would be affected if they had to pay more for this measly $109M. Their profit and positive cash flow is in the billions per year. At some point (and higher rate), someone would loan McDonald's $109M, no? Why wasn't this just left up to the market?
Great point!

I'll make that an explicit point under architecture and PL.
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> Is it common to just leave out diacritics when dealing with foreign vocabulary in the english language ?

Just leaving out the diacritics is for when English is feeling generous and doesn't feel like mangling or misspelling the words any further.
Hacker spaces have come a long way too.
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I just bumped into this in Godel, Escher, Bach -- it has some great insights into the deeper solution of this program.
Good points in there - made me wonder how many times is your diagram revisited by a web app's maintenance crew? Probably never. Leading to the question: over how long will app maintenance melt your crisp, clean app into a fudgepile of useless utility?
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Where I work, TechSmith, we've been trying the 20% time thing on different teams. We call it "TechSmith Fridays" and the goal is to make TechSmith better by Monday.

That goal is pretty loose and many people have spent their time working on their own cool ideas as well as internal tools that our sales team can use to make their lives easier.

I've found having a "free day" to look forward to makes it easier to focus on my regular tasks the first 4 days of the week.We also have the rule that the project needs to be shown off so you're accountable for the time. Nobody uses it just to goof off.

I know at least one new product is likely to come from this already and we've only been doing it for a few months. I'm really excited to see what comes out of it in the future.
So it's like enforcing speed limit laws- the government can't possibly ticket every person who drives over the speed limit, so they ticket some percentage of speeders and from that expect that less people will speed.
There's really not a whole lot abstracted about it. It is really hard and impractical for actually accomplishing anything, but it's also pretty easy to see how it maps to a Turing machine if you know what the actual definition of a Turing machine is.

That kind of thing I learned in a class: a textbook on computational theory is probably what you want, and as far as I know there are only a couple of those. I used this one: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theory-Computation-Michae...
Hasn't the laptop already replaced the desktop for the majority of the market?

It is only the uber-high-end that is looking for 'upgradability' and 'slots'. Though I don't deny it is entirely possible that a new desktop form-factor may be on the way, it is a very niche market.
Glad you like it. The price drops each time it's shared. So if you have 500 friends, you would need all 500 for she it out as well to drop the price by $500. If you drive the cost to 0, then you grab it for just the shipping costs. It's only available for a day though, you so need to snatch it up before it's gone.
Totally agree, I was surprised to really get into a checker program in a dead language. Norvig writes really good stuff, check out his article on spelling correction http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html . And of course video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvplcQ41_uI
>Just remember Apple is being sued as much as it's suing. Yes, it is disgusting business practice across the industry, but nobody is immune and nobody is pure. Apple gets the most air time because they are Apple.

Samsung didn't sue Apple until Apple sued them. This kind of "everybody's doing it" thing doesn't quite wash. Google, for example, isn't playing this cheap game.
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Touchscreen vs. T9: are you kidding? I take the soft touchscreen keyboard any time. I am at the very least twice faster with it.

Old Android versions on old phone hardware used to have a slowish/imprecise keyboard, but more recent versions on a fast CPU are much better.
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