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Since I'm obsessed with tools, I've tried all of these: Basecamp TODOs, Google Spreadsheet, Lighthouse, Trac, Pivotal Tracker, GitHub Issues. I find Pivotal Tracker and Lighthouse to work best.

Basecamp TODOs quickly pile up and become unmanageable as ideas keep pouring in.

I hate Trac just because of its design and less-than-perfect attention to detail.

Spreadsheet is very limited when it comes to commenting, and does not allow to view tasks using different groupings/filters without interfering with others.

Lighthouse just feels better than GitHub Issues as a traditional bug tracker. I'd say it is the best place to store the 1000s of ideas you will have.

Pivotal Tracker is probably best if you're working stably, nearly full-time. I haven't been fortunate enough to work on my own projects full time so far, and the planning thing really breaks down when week-to-week progress is overly unpredictable.

Personally, I'd recommend to stick with Lighthouse.
Honestly, it's just another symptom of the depersonalization in the employment market. As long as there is a surplus of qualified* workers, then there is little reason to treat people humanely.

*for values of qualified from "keyword-rich resume" and up.
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It doesn't ecourage you, it forces you. Yet currency is misleadingly sold to society as a legitimate store of value.
Interesting. I'm curious what types of technology the jobs you are applying for are using.
Being a ruby developer in London is much the opposite experience. People bending over backwards to contact you and more job offers than candidates. I've never had anything other than very quick feedback, and feedback 100% of the time. The worst was around a 1 month delay.

It seems as though people's courtesy levels are proportional to the demand for skills. I guess more people want to work in the Valley than in London. You also hear horror stories about the video games industry.
To paraphrase jwz (like that's never been done before), "When the rebuttal to your argument is 'The Industrial Revolution', generally that means that you've lost the argument."

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The first line of the article has it:

Net income in the first half of 2011 came to almost $500 million, according to the source, who wished to remain anonymous because privately-held Facebook does not disclose its results.
Job availability and wages also decrease when you do that.
They can always do the layoffs later, in the meantime they got more labor at a cheaper unit cost. It's typically a good deal, managers getting the advantage from a union sense of solidarity. If it was a really bad deal, you'd assume they wouldn't take it, right?

The only major risk is creating more pension liability by another year of service for some people, but if you're laying them off you have to pay that pension anyways, plus take a big short term hit paying out that much accumulated leave in one go.
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Technology kills demand for a particular procedure or function, this dampens aggregate demand which in turn eliminates the need for the function or procedure provider in the form of a job
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Many of the problems with the post office are caused by congress. The set rules that handicap them and expect the post office to run profitably. For instance, if congress hadn't mandated overzealous pre-funding requirements the post office would be solvent.
I read this, and think: cryptographic hashes are just too damn cool.
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Hopefully JS/WebGL will help enable a client-server model for medical image analysis analogous to AWS/Hadoop/etc. JS has been successful not only for its ubiquity, but also because it - warts and all - hits a development sweet spot. Right now the big open source med image projects (MITK, Slicer, etc.) are almost all C++, so the barrier to entry is too high for some people who might be able to contribute substantially within the JS sweet spot.

Here's a really neat step in this direction:
http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~rudolph/webgl/brain_viewer/b...
If I follow your workflow, my coworkers go ballistic. The problem is that the "git pull" messes up the revision history. I finally learned to use "git pull --rebase".
Pretty convincing argument. :-)
Houses are a one example. Suppose you're looking at buying a house that's $200k. Then assume that you live in a deflationary environment where all goods get cheaper every year, say by 10%. The immediate conclusion is that in 1 year, the house you want will cost $180k. If you can wait 2 years, $162k, and so on. So while you may eventually buy as the house still has utility, you are likely to delay the purchase as long as possible to avoid losing money to deflation.

(The opposite of this scenario is housing inflation, and causes people to buy houses sooner and for more money than they would ex-inflation. This makes some sense if the inflation continues as buyers expected.)

This scenario is different from single goods getting cheaper every year in that when the prices of all goods are going down, it's very clear that the value of money is also going down. Deflation slows spending primarily via expectation of future deflation, so across-the-board price declines will have more impact transmitting deflation expectations than mixed signals (electronics down, oil up).
If you click through my profile, you'll see I'm a dev at GoPollGo. I posted this poll to HN because I enjoy using our product and was genuinely interested in the discussion around programming languages and didn't get many votes from my small Twitter following. Based on >200 votes, the HN audience seems to find this question interesting as well.
No, that's just wrong. The people at the bottom certainly don't lose.

Japan was at the bottom (of industrial economies) in the post war world and leveraged those low wages to re-industrialize and get to the top. China did the same thing in the 80's and 90's, and is now seeing upwards wage pressure as they approach a first-world level of economic activity.

Next up will be the Indias and Vietnams of the world. Hopefully eventually subsaharan africa will get there.

This is a good thing, overall. Yes, working conditions at "the bottom" are often huge problems (though again: remember the comparison is to abject poverty). And yes, rapid change causes people to lose jobs elsewhere faster than they can be replaced, and that sucks for those people.

But to argue that chasing cheap wages is inherently bad is isomorphic to arguing that poor people should always be poor, and that's much less palatable to me.
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Yes, just because of startup time, IIRC.
Inflation/deflation has very little impact on the poor; the poor spend almost 100% of their income within a short window of receiving it just to survive. From the view of poverty, saving money is a rich man's luxury, and worries about inflation/deflation rates goes along with it.

For those with excess money, inflation does encourage investment. Under a steady inflationary pressure, it is irrational to hoard your excess money under a mattress or put it in the bank and earn interest, because interest won't keep up with inflation. Your money evaporates away under that scenario. Instead, if you want to act rationally, you would look for other places to put your money where it could outperform inflation. That's the only way you have a chance of holding onto the value it represents.

Deflation discourages spending, but it also discourages investment. Sure, you could justify rolling the dice on some investments to try to outperform the constant bump in value you get every day from deflation, but why bother with that extra risk? If you just sit on your money, trying not to spend it, you'll have way more value in the future than you could ever hope to get out of it today.

This isn't about saving vs. spending, it's about using money for what money is meant for -- exchange of value for value, not as a durable permanent store of value.
It precisely explains why we're spending more and more and getting less and less.

Compound 15% out over 15 years.

Educational reform is a broad subject and there's lots of room for experimentation. I'm fine with properly implemented charter schools, especially for the "thousand laboratories" effect. I don't think that chanting "markets" like a religious incantation is particularly effective. But most importantly, don't underestimate the effect of that healthcare cost.
Why can't investment and consumption be encouraged? The more money that is invested into companies leads to more salaries being paid, which leads to more consumption. That is the basic theory at least. The details of course can be debated such as 'trickle down economics.'
The whole "downloading history of the repository onto your machine" thing about git is what makes it unworkable where I work. A normal checkout from SVN is over 3GB in size just for our team's tree. There are a number of binaries that get pulled in and updated for various reasons (SDKs, platform-specific binaries) and they are versioned for repeatable and automatable builds across branches, all self-contained with minimal dependencies. I dread to think what the entire history would take - it must be many 100s of GBs at least. It would certainly rule out the whole "working disconnected" idea on laptops, for one.
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According to economics, companies exist when workers are able, together, to output more than the sum of their parts. More enough to compensate for the boss overhead, and then some. In fact, it's recommended to go indie if you're medium to strongly competent in a wide range of skills such as marketing, sales, programming and operations... But for most specialized workers, the company provides the collective which makes sure they can package their work together with others and sell it to the client as a final integrated product.
Lots of companies think that a human/humane reply to the outcome of the hiring process is another additional cost which simply needs to be automated as much as possible. The thinking borders on "if this person is not going to be hired anyway, why spend time and cost informing him/her. Probably best to just let him/her take the cue that no reply means rejection."
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"So how’s it going? The dollar value of that gold has fluctuated sharply, but overall it has soared. So buying into gold has, at least so far, been a good investment.

But does that make the experiment a success? Um, no. What we want from a monetary system isn’t to make people holding money rich; we want it to facilitate transactions and make the economy as a whole rich. And that’s not at all what is happening in gold.

Bear in mind that dollar prices have been relatively stable over the past few years – yes, some deflation in 2008-2009, then some inflation as commodity prices rebounded, but overall consumer prices are only slightly higher than they were three years ago. What that means is that if you measure prices in gold, they have plunged; the gold economy has in effect experienced massive deflation.

And because of that, there has been an incentive to hoard the gold rather than spending it."

I'm willing to stomach lots of negatives to take away the government's power to inflate to pay for war. Historically inflation has always been for war.
IIRC, they have adapted one of Eclipse's java compilers just so you could that.
I used both, too.

From the mercurial docs: "If you felt uncomfortable dealing with Git's index, you are switching for the better."

To be honest, after a few years with git, I feel uncomfortable without the index.
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Most people who use bitcoin don't believe that the fixed supply is a weakness. A lot of us are vastly frustrated at the previous lack of an easy-to-tranact-in pseudonymous INflation-proof currency. The others that were in common use (eGold, Liberty Reserve, and Pecunix) have all become relatively unsafe recently due to their centralized natures.

That said, there are bitcoin-network forks out there that remove the maximum cap on new coins, if I recall correctly. You are welcome to go and use one of those if you choose.
> They're going to end it soon.

That isn't exactly true. The Postmaster General has been trying to get Saturday delivery canceled for a while now, but congress has not been willing to let it happen.
Sorry for asking this under such a nice idea but what happens to those who have domains with a company that goes out of business?
This is awesome! Are you able to implement the physically based specular term and still have acceptable performance?

You'll need the precomputed Beckmann distribution in a texture:
http://developer.nvidia.com/node/171
When I first read about this (some weeks ago) it seemed to me that it was more likely a database failure since the address fields in the accounts were all being set to the same thing.

That is, valid purchases were being made, but the wrong account was being charged/edited.

Of course, I have no proof of this. It simply struck me as strange that a hacker would reset the town to the same thing in the accounts. What purpose, unless it was the hacker's signature.
Agreed, with pure solid state though its not as big of a deal. But I remember having to manually park hard drive heads before moving desktops. Shaking anything that spins activates my spidey sense that I will cause head crashes.
Without a union , workers has almost no power in today's market.
But inflating the money supply doesn't take away everyone's purchasing power. It redistributes it to the people who get the new money.
> 30ms for a Cray 1 was only 2400 clock cycles

2.4 million clock cycles. (According to Wikipedia, the Cray-1 had a 80 MHz clock, which you also mention in your other post.)
Well, anything's possible, and I'd even say that they might do something else that neither us nor them nor anyone else has figured out yet, but I can't speculate there. I see Facebook as a potential AOL without the dial-up service, but with more user loyalty, and a potentially unbreakable monopoly on IM. If they can focus on what they doing best -- helping people stay connected with their friends, and not get lost in the hype of dollar valuations they'll be fine.

As an investor, I'm short Facebook at an $80 Billion valuation.
It allows you to use `git pull/push' without specifying the remote. see: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/2010/07/git-tips/ Section "Push a branch and automatically set tracking"
Most economists consider deflationary spiral to be a nightmare scenario. See: Great Depression and Japan's lost decade.
But have you actually tried it? You might be surprised.
Stopped using it years ago. A little research should prevent people using it in the first place. I know reviews for any host are usually bad on average, but with GoDaddy, there ought to be enough scathing reviews to ward people off in the first place.
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Technically speaking it doesn't "mess up" the revision history, it preserves it. Rebasing instead of merging creates a linear revision history, which is simpler and more similar to centralized version control, but at the cost of losing information about the actual path of development.
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How do you deal with increasing registry fee of 7% annually then?
How do you calculate that chance?
Where do you get 10% from? Most programmers are fast on a keyboard, but being fast != touch-typing. Admittedly, not all touch-typists train their fingers to properly remember the numbers row or the set of accompanying punctuations and symbols, they might sometimes need to look at the keyboard to find stuff like tilde, pipe or the underscore.

However, if you catch yourself needing to even just glance at the keyboard while typing basic stuff, you're not a touch-typist, no matter how fast you are.

Many people feel that being fast is good enough. It has been my observation though, that the lag between typos and their fix is considerably shorter (almost instantaneous) for touch-typists (they're looking at the screen as it's happening). Indeed, I'm always a tiny bit annoyed when while sitting next to someone editing code, they accidentally turn on caps and it takes forever for them to realize it (like 10 characters later).
I kept thinking, "please don't open your eyes!" If he (it) did, I would have freaked out.
Scvngr always struck me as more of a Foursquare competitor than Groupon.

Scvngr was more of a location service. LevelUp seems to be a bit of a pivot into the daily deals space.
The poor and lower middle class do not spend 100% of their money 100% of the time. But nearly 100% of any saved money a poor person has is in the form of raw cash, or non-interest paying bank accounts.

The rich can afford to move their money to more stable currencies and commodities in an inflationary environment. They are more likely to have insights and are way less likely to spend a large portion of their wealth year-to-year.

I disagree that deflation discourages investment. Given a stable deflationary rate rational actors will look at the returns their fellow citizens are getting (from say a mutual fund, or even government bonds) and will conclude that their purchasing power can be furthered.

Furthermore, the United States had a (quazi) gold standard for years, as did most of the world, and investment continued.
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He seems to overlook that bitcoins have been worth steadily less and less the last few months, losing some 50% of their value in 60-90 days.

Also: The bitcoin transaction volume has been steadily increasing since its introduction.

This article would carry a lot more weight if it had accurate facts.
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Can you maybe separate the binaries and use git for only sources?
You realize VeriSign increases the registry fee 7% each year. NameCheap from my calculation is actually eating into their own margin each year slightly.

I used to use them back in around 2004, love the company, owner is wonderful. Only reason I don't use them is I got a much better deal at Fabulous.com which is designed for large portfolios. I still recommend them to basically anyone looking for a registrar that isn't holding 100 domains or more.
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So, the original contention was that Socialistobama would never, ever, ever consider reduction of service.

The truth is that his appointee is actively pursuing it. Regardless of whether Congress (ironically, mostly rural district republicans in congress) are impeding him as usual.
Only if you believe that indirectly measured traffic metrics mean anything in the real world.
The % of US wages doesn't make sense. many manufacturing workers in the US earn minimum wage , which is between $5.15-$8.5 per hour.

So the figure should be 15%-20% of US wages.
Your argument is valid, however I want to point out that the third scenario you describe (mistyped addresses) is extremely unlikely due to a built-in checksum in bitcoin addresses to prevent exactly that.
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If we are talking about performing range queries on an index then Riak already has it in the form of Riak Search. In 1.0 this is also supported by secondary indices.

If we are talking about performing a range operation on the primary key which returns the matching objects, then no, Riak doesn't currently offer that. However, given it's support for an ordered data store such as leveldb in 1.0 it should only be a matter of time before that is possible.

Just to try it out I already implemented this for fun on my fork.

https://github.com/rzezeski/riak_kv/tree/native-range

https://github.com/rzezeski/riak-erlang-client/tree/native-r...
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Exactly, and now those users are free to use that money to buy other goods or invest, creating more jobs to fill the vacuum left by newspaper layoffs.
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Your work now consists of your former job and being a salesman. That explains why everyone's not doing it.
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Have you tried Virtual Box and VMWare in addition to KVM and Xen? I am very happy with Virtual Box when I need to do something Windows-only. I only use Xen and KVM on servers. The run very well in headless boxes.

BTW, isn't Hyper-V somewhat related to Virtual-PC, the product Microsoft got when they acquired Connectix? If that's the case, it's one of the first desktop virtualization technologies. I used it extensively on my Macs in the early 2000's.
Git actually starts compacting your object database and creating super-efficient delta-compressed packfiles after a bit. You can still throw object files in there afterwards though, and it doesn't change the basic principles of operation.
I opened the tab and then forgot about it while reading other stories. Scared the shit out of me when I got around to this tab.
(I didn't downvote, FYI)

I have an ad blocker installed. It slipped by.
And that's a shame. I'd love to see a different way to look at funnels. It looks more like a feature added to remove objections from using mixpanel vs. kissmetrics rather than one that was more organically grown.
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Didn't work for my stream: the frequent updaters are the ones who are fun and informative, and the infrequent the ones that say stuff about their days.
Hyper-V isn't late to the party at all, it's been out for 2 years already. Unfortunately, for some idiotic reason they decided not to enable Hyper-V support in the desktop client OS.
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Deflation removes some of the incentives for investment, but I agree -- not all of them.

And in practice, to most rational actors a mild deflation is almost indistinguishable from a mild inflation. It's when either of those swing wildly that we have issues. Bitcoin increased in value 11x in the six months from Sep'10 to Feb'11. That would be a major problem if we were all using bitcoins instead of dollars.
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How would I find one of the forks?
Good question. I did not mean to be misleading. I was referring to having an initial yearly fee of, say, $8.99 but hidden in the fine print a renewal fee of $12.99. I can't control the yearly rate increases but I'll always just have one fee regardless of transfer, renewal, or initial registration. Sorry for the confusion.
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That's not strictly true. In the 2 states I'm familiar with that have state income tax (New Jersey and Ohio), a HUGE proportion of the state budget goes to assistance for lower-income districts.
How so? That would be a 2-fold rotational symmetry, wouldn't it?

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