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Have you tried reading the git man page? It's well-written, but it's a technical manual of how git works, not a manual describing how to use git.
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You are right there are options that are free. Community health clinics and such. But those things are such basic health services it doesn't cover nearly enough to compare to what a public health system covers.
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Nice geek porn, but the title and the premise is basically nonsense.

EU politicians knew for many years that Greece was scamming things. Maybe not so much when the Euro started, but well before it all blew up. All kinds of circumstances, however (such as the need for Greece's vote on some other hot issue of the moment) made sure that no one had the will to really do something about it.

Statistics is nice and dandy, but it doesn't help a dime in fixing the broken mess that is EU politics.

ps. Fun trivia: if the EU applied for EU membership, it wouldn't get in because it's too undemocratic.
Dammit... first the workings of Thief and now this!

I have work to do!
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I challenge you to find someone who regularly brings their TV into bed with them and watches it under the covers.

Yes, obviously there are many non-hackers who have this problem. Just thought it was funny it wasn't one of the hypotheses listed, given that it's directly related to the cause of this guy's insomnia.
I don't know much about the MIT project, but a criticism of a related project is available in a nytimes op-ed at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/opinion/01srivastava.html

I have strong doubts that mass-produced anything is the key to solving poverty. Having people rely on outsourced production rather than encouraging the local construction industry is no way to empower them.

EDIT: That said, having such housing available for rebuilding after a natural disaster doesn't sound like such a bad idea.
I think you're right, the invite window doesn't matter, but like the first 100 days of a presidency, it's a solid enough chunk of time to think about what Google+ has accomplished, and I would argue that the answer is "not much."

The invite window won't kill G+, but apathy will. About a fifth of my Facebook friends are on it, but only 3 out of a hundred post anything. A successful competitor would need to stand for something other than "well, it's not Facebook."

It may find a niche as a long-form twitter (which is something I can't believe Facebook waited so long to do) but the initial excitement has run its course.
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My suggestion: Google Public Domain

It brings together some of the work they've already done, and could further it.
One of the things customers of Microsoft products "benefit from" is being covered by their IP indemnity policy‡.

For large enterprises deploying stuff with Microsoft kit, that's a pretty big benefit.

‡ http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/D/0/9D0A6265-A509-4... (link downloads a DOC file, sorry, couldn't find it online)
I think he's trying to prove he doesn't understand logic. You can prove anything from contradictory true statements not from false ones.
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Google+ first didn't let me to use a different name for my account, and then showed me a nice dialog, in words to this effect: "do you want to link Picasa to your account? (yes) (cancel Google+ account creation)"

So long, Google+
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In order to make any great art, there's a risk of spectacular failure. There is no reliable way of achieving greatness. If it's reliable, the best it can be is merely good.

This is exactly why I'm not getting any permanent things done to my body. I wouldn't want something merely good, I would want greatness. In order to go for greatness, I would have to risk spending the rest of my life with some spectacular failure. That's a risk that I'm not willing to take, but I appreciate it when other people do.

Your tattoo? Pretty damn great.
I worked in a company that did that a couple of times, but not to that extent. Usually the job description wasn't well defined and the candidate didn't have any champions within the company. We would keep on bringing the candidate in over and over in the hope that some new perspective would make the choice obvious. (it never did)

Oddly enough, when you decline to continue interviewing they often immediately send you a job offer.
Reed Hastings makes me wonder what kind of company Netflix is.

Does Netflix listen to its customers? I've hated the website redesign since it launched and from what I've read, I'm certainly not alone. I find the redesign to be much less user friendly than the old one, which I loved. I don't login as much as before to browse, review and add to my queue. I avoid the website and stick to watching stuff on my Roku. In my opinion, the redesign took the Netflix website from one that was fun to use, to one that devalued the company to being just another company that provides movies. The charm is gone.

And now this odd, Qwikstupid thing. That site isn't even up yet. Is it because they planned it that way, or are they looking for customer feedback first before making any concrete changes?

And that takes me back to my original point: does Netflix care about customer feedback?

(edited for my terrible typos)
Its high time they opened it. Google+ seemed like desert.
I did Brew and J2ME device development before Android. Believe me, I _feel_ your pain.
For context: GPS navigation device manufacturer TomTom sold anonymized traffic data to the Dutch police this year, police used data for setting up targeted speed traps.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/28/tomtom-satn...
it is largely written by non-lawyers; often it describes the law as Wiki editors _want_ it to be, rather than how it _is_

True, but lawyers do that too at times.
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The USP is that you reach good designers straight in their inbox. Good designers get offers all the time, and have no need to browse traditional job offers sites.

Without Folyo, you'd either have to spend hours browsing a site like Dribbble and contacting each designer individually (keeping in mind that most of them will be unavailable or not interested), or you can post on a normal job board and filter through tons of sub-par applicants.

So I think the service can be pretty useful for companies that are serious about finding a good designer.
Like I said, there was a lot of luck involved with finding their first CTO that carried them to the first 2 million in revenue.

Unfortunately for him, he was let go after 10 years and didn't negotiate enough equity to be comfortable afterwards.

Stories like that are all over the place and it's one of the reasons a dedicated, incredible technical contributor is more likely to start their own thing than hitch their wagon to someone else who might screw them over in the long run.
10k aggregate isn't nearly as much as it sounds like - especially for an established adult family or household.

Consider that this could be accumulated savings over time and various accounts. Also consider things like employer-sponsored retirement accounts that someone may have had with an American company that they have simply forgotten about. (That happens FAR more than people realize/ would expect)

The point is it's a bad rule. Making the line 10k is guaranteed to pick people soldily 'middle class' and not just "rich" people.
Widely adopted? Not causing a mass Windows Exodus? Almost entirely supplanting XP? Sure, it didn't get the press coverage that OSX gets every time it adds a forgettable feature, but look around. If it's not a Mac and it's not a server, the smart money is betting it's Windows 7.

FWIW I am typing this in Firefox on Redhat.
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Word f'ing up. I was recently fired from a remarkably relatable situation where a hot ninja startup had no effective intake process, so for orientation I had one pair-programming episode regarding an intensely technical internal aspect of the application before being sent off to fend for myself in their repository. Couple this with an office and project management style predicated on "who can interrupt the loudest?", having multiples of these conversations occur simultaneously, and an absolutely open office plan.

But hey, the CEO had sold a previous company for good money so this means he knows what he's doing. I'm sure they'll be a huge success.

I'm not saying that I'm God's gift to college-dropout programmers, but I'd never had a problem succeeding in a job until this one. In reaction to this state of affairs I had considered that maybe I need to be at a huge company that has better processes, but your Google tale says maybe otherwise.

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I find this extremely common, especially among the job hopping crowd. Seems like the only thing they ever do keep reading interview questions all day. Do a horrible job at the current place and then hop to a new company for 30% hike 9 months later.

Its sort of impossible to screen such people, because they have solutions to any interview question you can ever ask at the back of their hands.
The problem is a lot of legacy apps won't run on ARM anyway because they are compiled to x86/x64. This just avoids people buying an ARM laptop and expecting their copy of Office 2007 to work.
I was hoping that it generated SLJ-esque text at random (Markov chain!), but it looks like it just chooses from a set of 10 paragraphs :( .
Today we are going to have a civilized discussion of a Gruber article on HN.

For those that want to discuss the article, comment elsewhere!

For those that want to attack or defend Gruber, just upvote the appropriate account below.

(If you want to see who is winning, click the appropriate account name. Both accounts started with 1 karma and no other comments or submissions.)
It's pretty well understood in the industry that EC2 is a cash cow for Amazon. I wouldn't be surprised if their operating costs were 10-30% of the hourly rates they charge (based on back-of-the-napkin calculations like you did, but also based on their competitors' rates which are much lower).

However, the cash flow generated by EC2 is likely negative as I believe that (1) all the profits are re-invested in expanding, and that (2) Amazon injects money into it from other sources.
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I guess your site is more useful for the person who has a particular apartment in mind, and wants to know more before making the decision. My idea for a site was to help people find an apartment in the first place (hence the quantitative questions). I would love to know what apartment has the fastest maintenance response and the highest percent of deposit returned, while avoiding the ones with the least amount of street parking and the noisiest neighbors.
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Great job collecting paragraph-length quotes from the movie! I love it.
I would question how many people would be willing to 'flag' to receive emails (unless it's the original poster). Secondly, I wouldn't share unless I got something out of it. If I'm too lazy to fill out surveys that give store credit, I probably wouldn't share for this.

I think a good strategy might be to get landlords/owners as some of the first users. They have incentive to respond to questions and comments from potential renters so that might be a good starting point for content.
I find Gruber's commentary insightful and his arguments cogent. He often brings up topics I had not considered before.
As I understand it, F.lux works because your body uses light cues to determine the rate of melatonin production. Essentially: less light (or warmer light) => more melatonin production => sleepiness.

Rather than mess around with your monitors' color balance (which I find extremely annoying), I just skip the first step and pop an over the counter melatonin pill. It works splendidly, doesn't seem to be habit forming (been using it on and off for 5 years; it basically got me through the last 2 years of college), and doesn't seem to have any adverse side effects other than more vivid dreams (or, equivalently, better recollection of dreams).
Of course. I put extra time into writing that comment to minimize the chances that it would come across as rude or impolitic. Clearly I should have spent a little more time on it.

Look, I'm a pretty mercurial dude, and I know that, so I appreciate in general people that can take a little of the huff and puff out of situations. I appreciate patio11 specifically because he's a valuable member of HN, who contributes often, and can be considered an expert on a variety of topics.

That said, he -- like everyone here -- isn't above criticism. I wouldn't have even bothered to comment except that his comment was the top in the thread, and based on my experiences, ignoring stuff like this because it probably won't actually matter isn't a good idea -- even if it's true.

I find it distasteful that I've had to defend myself on this. This will be my last comment on this matter.
If I'm not mistaken, the reply button takes longer to appear the more deeply nested a comment is, to discourage long, drawn-out arguments which detract from the value of a thread.
Aye, I agree with that whole heartedly. Its the whole timeshare market I wonder about. Basically if there is a market for this 'size' cluster for about $1,300 an hour could you build one of these and rent it out like Amazon does but more efficiently. (Sort of can you cut costs by specializing into a particularly lucrative segment of the market).

So if 100% 'occupancy' on your cluster is worth a million a month, and your cost of 'owning' a cluster of this scale is a quarter million a month, then you need to do better than 25% occupancy to break even, and anything better than that and you make money. It is an interesting financial exercise if nothing else.
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I don't think it helps to be located outside the problematic jurisdiction - as soon as you sell your products there, you are once again subject to the laws you're trying to avoid. Avoiding the United States as a market is probably more costly than just putting up with the "patent tax".
Gruber is uninteresting because he always defends Apple (for personal and monetary reasons). His articles are usually a rehash of discussions better had elsewhere.
WP7 user here (I even left the iPhone for it).

Mindshare? What mindshare? Even die-hard Windows users I encounter think that WP7 == Windows Mobile, and thus, think it's total crap... until I show them the actual experience and apps.

Seems like every time I'm at a wireless store, there's an employee showing a customer phones who shows them a WP7 dismissively.

If the person selling you a phone thinks it sucks (for whatever reason or prejudice), what are the odds you're going to buy that phone?

Microsoft has a lot of image fixing to do. There's a huge image problem here.
But still, if you were carving out an exception for this type of thing in the Terms and Conditions, wouldn't you be explicit as possible?
Actually, reading this made me think that Gruber is getting better again. DF used to be great when it was Apple vs Microsoft/OSX vs Windows and not so good now it's Apple vs Google/iOS vs Android.

He knows how to write about the former, less so about the latter.
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It's downright embarrassing how badly Netflix has botched this transition. Not only was Netflix sitting on 25 million happy subscribers, but subscribers who were notoriously brand-loyal, and whose word-of-mouth promotion effectively acted as an unpaid sales and marketing force. Now they seem to be doing everything they can to alienate their most dedicated users, essentially saying "We don't want your business anymore".

As a Netflix user for 5+ years, I for one can't wait until a viable competitor with equivalent selection emerges.
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@ChuckMcM: I guess you've nailed it.

It pretty much depends on what are you looking for: a procedural executant or a project developer. A project developer can execute very well for the first couple of times, but expect from one to get bored with the same speed.

You have to find the right tasks for these "very smart people" instead of hiring them to do the wrong job. The alternative is to hire really dumb people, at least they'd never be able to do anything more or better than what they're told.
I know the guys who did it. It took an enormous amount of hard-won experience from similar but somewhat smaller spinups; experience that would be very expensive to replicate with a fresh team. Given that experience, however, it took them relatively few developer-hours to accomplish.
Interesting take on the matter. Have you read this article?

http://www.appleoutsider.com/2011/09/20/netflixpr/

link to discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3018573
if an American is going to Austria, is it trivial to land in Slovakia and drive/take a train across the border?

Yes, travel visas are Schengen-wide, only residency permits are handled on a per-country basis. There's also no border post to physically stop you crossing. It's more complicated when you stay within the EU but leave the Schengen area. People get bitten by this all the time when they book flights with a stop-over in a country for which they have no implicit right of transit (e.g.: the UK).
Fortunately for the rest of us, Gruber's writing is much more insightful than yours.
I agree. What do you think are the important issues? Mine are:

- APIs (looks like there's significant progress)

- Open-source/open standards/federation (nothing yet)

(I think the second one would really sort of take care of the nymwars and the Google Apps issues, too.)

I've got a ton of feature requests, but those two are what I would consider serious/disruptive.
I haven't tried Anathem yet (though I have it) but I never got past the first part of Baroque cycle, and I loved Snow Crash (probably my all time favorite novel), Cryptonomicon, and even Diamond Age. I've heard once you make it past the initial Wodehouse moment it gets better, but my god he bored me to tears with that. Considering how much I ate up all the insanity in Snow Crash that's saying a lot ;).
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Netflix does listen to user feedback. Back in 08, the profiles feature almost got the ax before vocal user feedback convinced them to keep it. I'm sure they're listening, regardless of what the final outcome is.

June 19, 2008 - Removing Profiles - http://blog.netflix.com/2008/06/profiles-feature-going-away....

June 30, 2008 - Nevermind - http://blog.netflix.com/2008/06/profiles-feature-not-going-a...

(Work has any URL with "netflix.com" blocked, so I'm guessing these are right blog posts.)
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This is the single best concise description of the steps to grow a startup. Nice job, Tony.

Only one thing to add. As my co-founder put it...

"The one thing missing is to get basic validation before coding via mockups. I think that's super key especially for devs who are looking for any excuse to avoid taking to potential customers and to get on with coding."
I went and deleted my google apps for my domain account and just forwarded my email to my gmail account because of this. It was just too painful having two accounts.
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If Google+ doesn't become a much more integral part of future Android releases, it will be a huge surprise. For me, the Google+ Android app has a killer feature: instant upload of pics/video taken with your phone to a Google+/Picasa folder that you can set to private or share with select circles.

To the extent that Google does integrate these two products, G+ will greatly benefit from having the huge Android user base as a source of growth and content, attracting many more engaged users to the platform.
Although you agree on this, a lot of people including ones from start up's aren't comfortable with paying people proportional to their productivity.

There are many reasons for that, most are happy with flat salary models where can they pay a donkey and a horse the same salary under the premise that they assume both a donkey and a horse can carry weight and run. Unfortunately that's how badly people think of when they pay. Or they are just afraid they may end up setting a trend productive people end up earning big all the time.
You nailed it. Our value comes after someone has found a few places and is looking for more information.

We have discussed building a listing engine into the site, which would aid in the search for properties. However, that is complicated and does not fit with our strategy at the moment. Right now it is all about traction.
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Unified queue.

Regardless of media, business structure, delivery mechanism, company name, etc. methinks what all customers want is a single place to choose & queue content, filtered by whatever options they desire, delivered on whatever medium is available and they pay for via a spectrum of contracts (from unlimited-per-month to single order).

Just make sure it's all on one queue. If multi-queue, then only because one customer may be grouping for multiple individuals (ex.: husband wants ultraviolent scifi, wife wants sappy romances, kids want Elmo galore). Whatever you do, don't force the customer to spend time/effort along such artificial differences as media (ex.: I want the DVD of "Scarface", but it's not on streaming anymore and I don't want to pay extra for the BD version - let me pick those options based on my single content choice, don't make me search 2-3 different sites for the same title which, I notice, have unreliable availability).

Amazon faces the same issue: vast business differences between warehouses of books & other physical stuff shipped by mail, vs. server farms for Kindle, streaming video, cloud storage/processing, etc. - same problem as Netflix, yet they're doing well under one website. I can search for Moby's latest album, and when ready to order can with ease choose between CD, MP3, DVD, and instant video: same content pool, same checkout, easy delivery, user doesn't care how it all happened.