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That attitude is horrifically obnoxious. I am not going to sacrifice my health and my life to a company unless I have a really good reason to.
I have never liked this naming scheme because it makes names that are existing words. This makes it hard to Google.
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It started off as the Sun.

I love this game.
You "hand in" you thesis and are graded 8.5? What did you do before then? Did you ask your thesis advisor for feedback while working on it? Did you study previous 9.0 theses and compare yours? How did you track that you were on the right path to meet your goal?

"Set direction, work without feedback or correction, surface for air at the end" is not a suitable methodology for success.
Fantastic, I look forward to purchasing a complete functioning PC for $25. I hope someone is taking preorders somewhere too.
This was also the premise of the site:
http://brokenpicturetelephone.com/

Unfortunately it's been "under development" for about a year...
Microsoft seem to have a vision for their device which is quite different from the IPAD. Perhaps I'm reading between the lines too much.

Imagine a tablet that connected wirelessly to a nearby monitor and keyboard. Imagine arriving at your desk, placing your device in a charging station, picking up the mouse, and working on your device as a desktop.

Imagine picking up the device to go to a meeting, using it as a tablet to browse your colleagues slides while she talked. Imagine it's your turn. You touch the screen, and the projector takes its feed from your device screen instead, wirelessly. You can change slides by gesture, draw with your finger to illustrate your talk, and run the programs you have developed and make changes. After all, this is your development machine.

Laptops already do a lot of this but they are cumbersome. Mostly, people want to read on the move, and that's what a tablet is for, consuming data.

Anyway, that's where I think Microsoft is going, but it's been a long day and I'm talking out my ass. Would you actually find a device like this an improvement on a laptop?
Duplicating the taste of fish would be more important, especially if it could get to sushi-grade. Fishing many larger fish is becoming unsustainable.

It's also more difficult because not only does texture matter, but the meat filters through sea water to get its taste.
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Grosser than eating something that was once a living, breathing, feeling animal? Probably not.

(I'm a meat eater but still acknowledge how horrible it is.)
Dropping out of college to run a startup is a bit like dropping out of college to play in a band.

The chances of hitting the big time may be roughly similar but the median guy who's spent four years working on becoming a rockstar 30 hours a week, seriously, no bullshitting can play music well and has a very nice social circle, the median programmer-equivalent can get a well paying job even if he never makes it as a startup founder.
Apparently nobody was paying attention when Meat Tube won Best New GMO in 08.

http://www.ilovemeattube.com/about.html
Is it possible the fact you were living abroad meant that you were a higher risk for the bank ?

I've heard plenty of people bitch about the pain to get a merchant account set up but it seems that the 50k thing is unusual.
What does that have to do with regularly burning the midnight oil for no tangible reason? I study computer science and new technologies when off the job, but you won't catch me dead working on company code after hours.
I don't believe that standing that long is healthy either.

You're right, which is why many people with standing desks alternate between sitting and standing. Some use motorized standing desks and others, such as myself, use tall chairs.
Cool. Definitely looking into this then!

Thank you.
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Got one of these 4 months ago. Works perfectly well, as long as you only put a laptop + mouse + mousepad on it. Put the weight (e.g. the laptop) on the support side.

Make sure what you put on it does not slip easily, e.g. by putting an anti-slip rubber on it - when it is extended to maximum height, a small bump in the leg area could send stuff gliding otherwise.

Also, the wheel locks are far from perfect. Doesn't bother me much, but don't expect the table to be still.
Yes, for when you want portable virtual disks to put in places like DropBox. We don't trust drop box for sensitive/important stuff and we trust Truecrypt more.

Great for shuffling stuff to your accountant actually! And heck of a lot faster and cheaper than FedEx.
Seems to work for me and I didn't restart Safari.
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I think most knowledge workers only have 4 hours of productive work a day, if you don't count screwing off on facebook or hn or what have you.

30 hours, I think, is a good expectation of a salary worker, assuming they work for most of those 30 hours.
Now, this is living. Life is a lot of things, but life is also revolution, war, and death. And this guy chose to live it.
I thought the EU was a customs union, so there were no customs checks between countries. Hence, the concept of contraband in one country but not in another doesn't really make sense. It's like when Illinois bans fireworks; people just go to Wisconsin and Indiana to buy them, and everyone has them anyway.

(Oddly enough, I've flown from the US to the EU without ever being able to go through customs. I landed in HEL, had my passport stamped, and was allowed back into the terminal to wait for my flight to CPH. At CPH, there were also no checks, since it was an EU arrival. Very odd.)
How do you find the phone, aka Orange San Francisco? My biggest question: is there a sound recorder ap that can access the microphone and make decent sample rate audio recordings?
You're going to do full disk encryption, and then upload your entire disk to Drop Box? Seems kinda strange…
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I'm a lot more likely to take a break from standing than I am from sitting.

I've had a standing desk for the last 2 years (ikea fredrik mentioned in another comment) and find I walk away from the desk much more often than I did while sitting. Even with the increased breaks, I think I am more productive.
the same way most founders of new companies get paid. Dayjobs.
I think premium-quality foods are probably a bit further off, but something of similar quality to frozen supermarket tilapia is probably not too much to ask. Some countries already consume a lot of products made of processed, retextured fish protein. I love those artificial crab-sticks.
Pointless other than as an exercise in asm writing. A port scanner is one of the most I/O-bound applications imaginable.
I think key continuity is an even worse solution for Internet trust than CAs.
If you don't trust Apple's FDE solution to not have a backdoor, you probably shouldn't use their operating system at all, as it has access to all of your data.
It makes calls into [C?] libraries that handle the actual networking. Not quite as impressive as I was hoping. "...in assembly" tends to make me think "implemented completely and entirely in assembly." I know, not necessarily a common connotation, but that's how my brain works.

At any rate, my point is you can "glue" functions from libraries together in any high-level or low-level language you want and make whatever app you'd like. I'm having trouble seeing the novelty in writing the app in asm but letting the libs do the heavy (and perhaps less-optimized) lifting.
The great thing about the Haskell signature is that if you understand functional programming at all, it's fairly easy to understand, at least in my opinion. Scala's method signature requires knowledge of Scala's brand of functional programming, including mixins and implicits.
I came here to comment on the same thing. Even if I happen to check work email some night or weekend that I'm more bored than usual, I make a point to not reply.

Oh, and this was similarly obnoxious (if not said tongue-in-cheek): Your developers stare blankly or say 3 "Hail Marys" when they hear the name "Zed Shaw": Scala == Hard

Dude, seriously? Since when are programmers judged by their propensity to keep up with the latest gossip about the most loud-mouthed self-important subculture celebrities ?
Realize, of course, that "Free" usually means, "We'll let you use a lot for free, until you use too much, at which point we'll either (A) Rate Limit you, (B) Have a conversation about why you are abusing the Free Incoming ALlocation, (C) Charge you for your excessive incoming data (D) Suggest you take your business elsewhere.

There is no such thing as a free lunch, and it's inaccurate of Linode to suggest they can provide unlimited free inbound data.

The statement "This means you can upload an unlimited amount of data to your Linode without having to pay for any of the incoming data transfer." will not stand for all of their customers - the vast majority, yes, but don't create a business on the belief that you can do unlimited uploads into your linode VPS at full speed. You won't be able to in the long run.

I would have preferred they provide wildly generous inbound allocations (First 5 Terabytes inbound is free, or something like that) than make a claim they can't stand behind.
What a good approach to take is simply to approach other businesses with models similar to yours and ask them who they use and get an introduction to their contact at the merchant account provider. If you're working with someone at the provider who's already familiar with your business type then things will move much faster.

If the person you're dealing with has never worked with a company that's does SaaS subscriptions before then naturally you're going to have more problems.

Chargify even lists specific contacts at BarclayCard and HSBC for people looking to setup merchant accounts that work with them, and because Chargify direct all of their users to specific contacts it means these individuals are extremely clued up about the SaaS business model and the process will be a lot less painful.
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The age you started programming doesn't matter.

False. But it is only one indicator, and people lie.

I believe that there is natural aptitude, there is experience, and finally there is motivation.

The age you started programming is most certainly an indicator for experience, and also I believe motivation. But it is only an indicator, not an accurate measure. If someone started programming at age 6, but didn't do anything with it till college, then they have less experience than a social outcast who came home from school every day and programmed to the detriment of homework. It would also suggest a lack of motivation.

Logically, the best programmer maximizes all three, but how does one measure them and how common is such a person?
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Maybe this is not 100% related but...
Having some photography and video background I can say some people( most of them) just can not visualice how a design-edit-retouch will be if they don't see it finished. Even explaining the process that will take place, they are just unable to see how the raw ( or preliminar ) material will be transformed. Even some people with design-art background seems to have problems understanding it if they haven't been fully involved.
You have the final product idea in your head and that it is almost impossible to transmit to the client without effectively showing the final result itself.
Title is misleading... the device has not been confirmed found, only missing.
I've heard on the grapevine that youDevise have hired a lot of people from HN.
There's not much of a wait left until the day a man will be able to come home from work, eat a lab-grown Bratwurst, have sex with his sex robot, and then relax with an electric cigarette.
This is normally a problem solved by a four-year vesting schedule w/ a one-year cliff.

IMO, companies offering minimal equity with a promise to increase it later is a huge red flag, since those promises rarely come to fruition. Equity is given to compensate for the risk and work involved in a startup. Once the company is further along, the risk and work required are lower and there's no market justification to increase someone's equity stake. The temptation to ignore those promises is usually too great.
That didn't happen when AOL bought them?
I hate to ask, but why store images in a database?
it is extremely slow, how come?
Answer in haste on a small screen and realize mmaro's question isn't on the top level. Bugger!

So, no is the answer and thanks for graciously pointing my mistake out and allowing me to correct. Truecrypt really is a great transport for smallish disks on an untrusted network. Whole disks on Dropbox probably = insane.
Wait did CNN get the scoop on that before Techcrunch? lol
Thank you, I wasn't gonna bother
Please add a way to link to these chains! Some of them are quite funny and worth sharing.
Except HN does not publish any articles. So it really is quite different from TechCrunch.
This reminds me of the tool that HBGary was planning to write.[0] They thought that using assembly would make it a super-duper fastest-ever scanner! The author of this tool clearly doesn't have the same delusions, even noting that its about as fast as nmap.

[0]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2315564

Edit:
Turns out that HBGary didn't mention writing it in assembly language but instead wanted to use LFSR (careful, they're mathy!!) to parallelize a scan and make it "FAST AS SHIT". I think I was getting confused with Steve Gibson's, another "security" blowhard, NanoProbe project.[1]

[1] https://www.grc.com/np/np.htm
It's making (linux) system calls via a software interrupt. There's no integration that I see with anything above the kernel.

But yes, I suppose it's "merely" gluing together straightforward system calls. A port scanner doesn't by itself have a lot of complicated logic.
looks like its suffering with load at the moment!
Because it's on HN's frontpage. I was playing this the other day and it was fine.
A network scanner is ... I/O bound? Surely you jest.
I think I agree with you, although I feel like characterising this as a "vacation" is unfortunate.
From the readme: "It uses Linux system calls to interface
with the network stack, which makes the code unportable across platforms, but keeps it completely libc free."
Were you expecting it to program the NIC directly? It's better to leave that up to the OS and drivers.

I agree with you about the novelty of this app, despite the well-commented assembly code, it would be much shorter and more readable in C.
In fact what would be totally amazing would be a web analytics tool for Ruby-on-Rails that did the kind of analytics I mentioned above automatically based upon the models you've setup in Rails.

It could even hook directly into your database allowing you to merge your business object data with your usage data.
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Cloudy hosting competition seems to be heating up, with this and Heroku's PG move.
Agree completely. I actually find his posts on TC the most rewarding.

All the other TC writers come across as childish pushing out the PR agenda of the latest startups. Very little originality or reporting.
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I think we had this discussion before about EC2. As long as Linode's total inbound is less than total outbound (which is very likely due to their focus on hosting rather than backup), it is free to them and thus they can make it free to their customers. Also, customers who upload a lot of data tend to store or process it, which Linode can make money on.
I'm a service provider, and we have similar "unlimited" offers, and I see where you're coming from. For us, there's the problem that many of our customers have no idea whether "5GB" or "10GB" or what-have-you is enough for them. We're willing to offer enough capacity that we're betting that they won't ever have a problem with it, and the shorthand for that is "unlimited". We're also gambling that if we do have one or a few customers that abuse the unlimitedness to such an extent that we have to talk to them about it, that we can have a reasonable conversation with them.

I think reasonableness is a big part of claims like this. Would a reasonable person expect to be able to download the internet into Linode? I don't think so, even though they're saying that it's unlimited.

If someone can think of a better way to tell most customers "don't worry about resources" without annoying a select few, I'm all ears.
How is this a game? It's awesomely entertaining, but I'm not sure it's considered an actual game if there isn't some sort of goal.

...even if the goal is 'have fun' :)
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You might want to include more object requests that contain words beyond "shit", "piss", "nigga" (oh yea, it was there!) ... etc.
Seriously, the concept is cool, your drawing requests are ridiculous.
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If everyone used keyboard shortcuts, we could increase GDP by over 3%.

http://www.brain-scape.com/blog/2011/08/how-keyboard-shortcuts-could-revive-americas-economy/
I'm personally buying three (one for me, one each for the kids). I manage a team of unix sysadmins, you've got quite a few sales lined up there. 10K should go in about.. 5 minutes?
And my phone has my google account information.. :/
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Again, I agree. The whole article isn't built on that dichotomy. It's just a sequence from a simple perspective to a more complex perspective, and actually ends saying that it's better if you are willing to expand your view, exactly like you are saying. :)

~

On the second part of your comment, well, you are talking about "web designer" specifically, and with a very specific definition of it as well. If that's your definition, then yes, he have to do that. But er, it looks more like a Frontend Developer to me, and I never heard of a "Concept Artist". ;)
However, it's a matter of terminology here, and there's surely some confusion about it. :)
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Having lived in the UK a few times and having to go through the process of bank accounts and stuff, and a lot of friends who did the same, the problem usually isn't the bank.

Its usually the case manager you get. My first account was with HSBC, I waltzed in filled the forms out. Walked out. My friend I travelled with came with me, got a different case manager ... took over 4 weeks and eventually moved to Ireland before his account was even opened.

The differing service you can get from one bank is amazing. Just take this example from a trip I took a few months ago.

I went to Thailand with 3 mates from the UK, all Llyods customers. One had a friend as his bank manager who OK'ed his for use in Thailand. He had no trouble at all.

Second guy OK'd his but he withdrew 20,000 baht in one transaction and his account was locked as he wasn't told there was a threshold. He had to ring help desk to unlock his account, it was fine after that.

Third guy didn't realise he had to OK the account, every time he used an ATM his account was locked. He would ring help desk every few days to unlock his account. It seemed he could only draw down 10,000 baht a week, if he tried a second transaction a few days later it would lock again.

No matter what he asked for they just unlocked his account and promised it would lock again. But we where there for a month, and he was always on the phone to the bank.
Better than not. It seeds the info to a lot of competent people.

But IMO, it would work better if people would stop making such ambiguous postings. I'm not going to tell my friend about this awesome opening I saw on HN if you don't actually say much about it.
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This is how business between ordinary people is usually done.

Paper napkins are free at every restaurant I've ever been to, but that doesn't mean that they'll give me a truckload of them in one visit.

To me it's a little different than a local ISP advertising "unlimited internet" or wireless carrier advertising "unlimited data" and then putting artificial caps and throttles on it. That's typically a home's only data pipe or a mobile device is on a long contract.

But there's much more competition for virtual servers and we all know our server infrastructures can be migrated to a different provider at the drop of a hat. Oh wait. :-)
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i really like these "what i pay for" lists that are starting... we have a list here too:
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(left column) of all the things we use for our open-source hardware business.

we'd love to hear suggestions for more too..
For context, HN has discussed my startup (at my request) several times:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=76077 (November 2007) and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=629011 (May 2009)

We are launching a blog to tell some of the more interesting stories of the past few (and next few) years. If there's anything in particular you're curious about, ask here and I'll try to either answer quickly or add it to our list of post ideas :)
I worked with lots of excellent designers that aren't able to write a single line of code. And still paired in a good team with a developer, they did marvels. :)
For what it's worth, I got my current job with ThisOrThat from an HN job posting. Although this is waning a little bit, I still believe that a company that posts on HN is more likely to be clued-in than average, and that makes it worth my time to investigate. It goes both ways.