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This is a frustration for me currently. My work is taking me closer to Palo Alto and San Francisco, her work is taking her closer to South San Jose. Our most recent change is that she is working on finishing a project in Los Gatos, while I just found some great work in Palo Alto.

We have compromised by living in the middle, but we both need to commute for about 30-40 minutes to our respective work places. I view this as an investment in our future. Right now we are both building careers which will make us much more money in the long run than the cost of commuting.
The title seems a bit ambiguous because for a second I thought Google Voice has silently decided to discontinue the Text sending feature. On another note, I've been using Google Voice for a long time and haven't experienced this.
The way I factor in safety is by choosing my routes. Minneapolis is wonderful for this. Depending where you live and work you may be able to bypass roads completely.

In any case though, beyond reasonable precautions such as helmets and defensive riding, I'm not going to run statistics to figure out the safest way to live my life. Bicycle commuting in general isn't something I consider an extreme risk. I'd certainly rather take my chances at injury doing a real activity than become an invalid at age 60 because I never got any exercise—because if I have to go to a gym to get exercise "safely" it ain't gonna happen.
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HP-UX doesn't run on x86 and the cloud == x86.
Iqster,

Contact me. Contact details are in my profile. I know far, far more about this topic than I need to. We do this work but we're probably way to expensive. I'll try to find someone for you to work with.

Generally . . .

Cross-border taxation is needlessly complex, mostly because of the US government. Expect to spend a LOT of money. If you get someone cheap, be suspicious. Competent, experienced cross-border tax return prep people are scarce and are priced accordingly.

And the downside risk for you (and your return preparer) is high. So you are paying your U.S. tax return preparer to be your insurance policy in case you get hit with a penalty, in addition to paying for scarce talent. Ah, the law of unintended consequences . . . .

I had two new contacts TODAY with US/Canada tax problems. All the cool kids are having tax problems these days. :-)
What the hell makes you think I want this to happen?

Shit, I'm not wealthy, but I'm upper middle class. You think I'm coming out on top in this scenario? It's pure self interest: I'm the guy who doesn't want to get looted.
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The big difference between startup risk and financial industry risk is that when 99% of startups fail, the losses are contained to those who took the risk. When the banking system fails, the losses are systemic and uncontained and affect people all over the country and world.

I'd also debate your point that the average quant understands statistics and probability much better than startup founders. The former have created a system where the expected payoff is negatively asymmetric, the latter a system where the expected payoff is positively asymmetric. Which world do you want to live in?

And do I even need to mention how quants' recent attempt to use Gaussian statistics to model a non-Gaussian world became one of the primary causes of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression?

Yes there are smart, savy quants like Paul Wilmott & Co. whose intellectual integrity is impeccable. But so far they've been the exception, not the rule.
I don't think logic (including syntax and grammar) will get outdated, I'm not trying hard but the maths and logic from the Greeks has lasted longer than their theories on matter, gods and treatment. The trends will be slow enough for even those rarely active to keep up (triply so in enterprise).
2 hours total yes, which is enough to maintain a reasonable level of fitness. You don't need a shower when you get to work if you wear lycra - it's fast wicking and you'll arrive drier than if you had taken public transport in cotton.

Also odour is caused by bacteria. If you shower before leaving and wear clean lycra there's no need to shower again at the end.
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For about four years I did bicycle commuting year-round, rain or shine (no snow here). It was only possible because I had an indoor place to store my bike, a place to hang my clothes to dry, a place to change and wash up a bit, and space at work to store things like dry shoes and indoor jackets. This allowed me to just accept the weather and completely change between biking at work.

Now, I don't have that luxury. I don't have a good place to store things, I don't have a good changing/cleaning area. I'm dreading the rain.
HAL 9000 was the best depiction of a psychopathic mind in action in the history of cinema, in my opinion.
Wow meaningless article. Try tail recursion, and a functional language - although that won't be able to help you with your terminal banality...
It looks like the website dartlang.org is down. I hope it will be up again soon so that we can compare the two languages in details.
Are you considered a resident or a non-resident of Canada for tax purposes, and do you have income from Canadian sources?

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/nnrsdnts/ndvdls/nnrs-eng.html

If your answer to both those questions is no - as it is in my case - you don't need to file a Canadian return, and you can use whatever tax preparation services your American friends do.

Way back in 2001, the year I moved here, I believe I filed both an American and a Canadian federal tax return and on the Canadian tax return I claimed my American taxes paid as a foreign tax credit. I was a broke-ass student at the time, so using a tax-prep service wasn't an option. But I don't remember it being particularly complicated.

Keep in mind that I am not a tax accountant, the rules and regulations may have changed, and my memory is probably completely shot - so don't take my advice as gospel.
> I run whatever software I want on mine, open source stuff, stuff that's never seen the appstore... and that's without jailbreaking it.

I'm guessing this is due to a developer certificate? I don't think it's reasonable to expect even power users to jump through all the Xcode hoops (and pay a $99 freedom tax) in order to run unapproved software.

> Its not like Apple only allows software Apple thinks is good on the store.

Curiously enough, if Apple were to allow sideloading, they could get far pickier about what goes in the App Store, which would be a better experience for 99% of customers, and potentially result in more total sales by creating an expectation of quality. There is much less shoddy junk in the Mac App Store for this very reason.

All that said, I've never run into anything I wish I could do that I can't, and so even though I've jailbroken my iDevices 5+ times, I always end up undoing it with the next upgrade.
Similarly, there are a number of people who would love a "a huge, old-style brick phone with a pull-out antenna windows CE style interface" and how it was better than the Galaxy S II or Prime just because it was made by Apple.
A lot of these efforts are getting funding straight from the government or companies that get substantial government funding. I think private and public interests are on the same page for once.
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You appear to have misunderstood.

On one occasion Mozilla has argued that the speed difference between a) non-JS code running natively and b) the same code rewritten in, or even compiled to, JS is (or soon will be) too small to be important. Now on this occasion Mozilla is arguing that the speed difference between a) native-VM Dart and b) Dart-to-JS is (and will remain) large enough to be important. I pointed out that these two claims are hard to reconcile. About the only way they can both be mostly-true is if the performance gap only happens to be large and important enough on exactly those occasions when that gap happens to bite Mozilla in its platform strategy. Not very likely, unless one assumes that the performance needs of the poor sods who just want to use the web (as publishers or consumers) are never all that important.

So the fact that Mozilla's problems with the relatively poor performance of Dart-to-JS would be solved if native-VM Dart went away has little relevance, because most other people's problems with the speed of JS are not helped by making there be no alternative to JS.

> or go back to school and learn how to argue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKm5xQyD2vE
Yes. Around here in CT, it's fairly common to have a one hour train ride commute to Manhattan. Sure it is better than driving, but it still is pretty soul sucking according to my friends who have done it.
Actually a surprising number of the best startups we've funded applied on a whim at the last minute. IIRC David Rusenko of Weebly applied in the last half hour without even having had time to tell his cofounders that he was.
It appears they fixed it... sort of. The box with the highlighted code is no longer on the page, and now it works in Safari.
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netflix users, you guys can thank me! looks like the email i sent to reed hastings positive effects now that they're backpedaling on the decision!

wow, when netflix first came out with the decision I thought it was a brilliant plan for a future business school case study of gross mismanagement of a formerly successful company.

Raising rates by 60% in a poor economy and making it hard for your customers to manage their movies? (not to mention throwing away brand equity of netflix in exchange for qwikster?) i wonder if the ceo has been on crack.
upvoted you for a specific practicality - too rare and precious element in the environment where many talk, yet a few do.

Though personally i will not order the pizza or do anything else that would leave records trail on the government servers and till the end of my life can be mined with "an active sympathizer to extremists" result.
For Perl, I've mentioned this elsewhere here but Mojo::UserAgent looks quite neat. This time with Mojolicious url - http://mojolicio.us/perldoc/Mojo/UserAgent
actually, empathy is pretty great for our species as a whole. the lack of empathy is what allows psychopaths to ignore the impacts of their actions on other people.

if you knew for a fact that you wouldn't experience any negative effects (like going to jail, having people label you as an outcast, etc.), would you kill a complete stranger for $100? if you had no empathy, you would.
Sorry, I'm out of date, when ES4 was terminated, John Resig said this: "Some ECMAScript 4 proposals have been deemed unsound for the Web, and are off the table for good: packages, namespaces and early binding. This conclusion is key to Harmony."

Is static scoping the same as early binding? For example, it is guaranteed that any class layouts within the module are statically frozen and cannot be altered at runtime? If you can add or remove methods from a class within a module, it's not really early binding, and this inhibits it's usefulness in a refactor or an IDE trying to do accurate usage search or code assist.
Six years in graduate school... going into debt to get a bfa...,
20k in debt and still paying tuition...

At what point do we say "these people just made or are making bad decisions".
What job did the bfa think they were going to get? Is it the governments
job to provide that for them now that they "did everything they were
supposed to do and have nothing to show for it"? And if it's not the
government than who?

I'm just unclear what this groups wants and how they think it should
be given to them. Raise taxes on the 1% and then what? Trust that the
government will create jobs for you? Raising taxes is the
easy part what's the next step after that?
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Here, have an upvote. So many people in this thread are missing the forest for the trees here and turning this slide deck into a referendum on interview styles, programming personas, and style. I guess it certainly makes for a nice bike shed, but the point of this is to help you appreciate some of the finer details of writing good C code. I like it.
No, by "deep understanding," he means "knowing how your code will run on a given system," which can have a lot to do with "getting the job done," especially if your code must be fast and stable.
Such ignorance. Willful? You seem new around here, and you are not using your real name. If only we were on Google+ :-/.

The long stagnation from ES3 (1999) to ES5 (2009) had everything to do with Microsoft abusing its browser-tying OS monopoly to stagnate the web by disbanding the IE team after IE6. This was prosecuted in U.S. v. Microsoft. How old are you, to never learn or else to forget this?

When I brought Mozilla back to Ecma in 2004 as we were launching Firefox 1.0, the JS standards group within TC39 was fooling around with E4X. Only one MSFT and one ex-BEA (ex-MSFT before that by way of Crossgain) guy were doing the spec work, and IE was not ever going to implement E4X.

We had to restart browser competition to get the various parties (Apple and Opera too) back in the room and working productively on the core language.

Now, we have ES5 done and ES6 under way. ES5 had new semantics, ES6 has more along with syntax, chiefly the module system (a second class system to facilitate prefetching, along with a loader API for when you need to be dynamic).

This is all documented on http://wiki.ecmascript.org/.

So your trollish commentary notwithstanding, ES5 is done and shipping in the latest browsers (finally complete in IE10 previews), and ES6 is being drafted and pieces are being prototyped in SpiderMonkey and V8.

I'm the last person to defend Java, but the JVM deserves a word here: it has finally evolved a bit, and it is fairly thriving on the server side with Scala, Clojure, and other languages.

Java's stagnation was due to Sun's miscalculations and mismanagement over the years.
Given that there are a great deal of service APIs in the wild this is going to lower the barrier of entry for many less experienced developers looking to prototype their ideas.
That's a peculiar definition of "sanity" (not that there's an objective way to define it anyway). Humans have been fighting wars since ever, just like other animals in herds. There's maybe an evolutionary advantage to it. Nations create armies to protect themselves and assert their territory (ok, nowadays it's interests). Since "sanity" is a socially defined construct, there's nothing wrong with the soldiers.
You have it completely backwards. A psychopath would likely claim that she/he cares about some "larger" common good while backstabbing all of the closest partners.
One example I can think of is apps like Torrent-Fu, where I can scan a movie barcode with my android and it will download on my home uTorrent. Obvious piracy, which is why it would never make it the app store, but this is just one example of the superior freedom one can enjoy on android.
Krugman has heaped blame on Obama? Maybe in a mild way, but in other ways he treats the Obama Administration with kid gloves. Case in point: here are a few of the top 20 businesses that contributed the most money to the Obama presidential campaign:

Goldman Sachs	$1,013,091
JPMorgan Chase & Co	$808,799
Citigroup Inc	$736,771
UBS AG	$532,674
US Government	$517,908
Morgan Stanley	$512,232

Source: http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cid=N00009638

Clearly, the narrative that it is only Republicans coddling the upper strata of the American plutocracy is failing.
Today I learned that there are at least 28k gullible idiots in the world
I didn't think it was possible but I think you've out-girled the girl in that slide deck.
I would have to think people paying the $5 or $10 subscription fee would be listening to more than 11 hours. Why would they price themselves so far under what it would take to turn even a tiny profit?
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Does this mean that those builds would fail on un networked machine under normal circumstances?
He's calculating the cost of commuting vs not commuting. That's not a real comparison for most people.

And even if you do calculate the real cost differential, I think for many people, living somewhere you really like is similar to taking a job that you really enjoy. I would take decreases in salary for an awesome work environment. Call me crazy, but if I have the ability to "pay" for sanity, I will. It's priceless.
I found this after reading the cost of commuting article and wondering how to optimize where I live based on places I visit each week.
Very good point. If the majority of Americans advocate for something "un-American", then you really need to think what's what. That's the revolution Wall St is trying to prevent.
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"a little" here should be relative, if I have a billion, a few hundred million is a little.

The "next guy" here implies anyone who needs it more than you. Be it that inner city school child, or old man with cancer who has to rob a bank in order to get treatment ( http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/man-robs-bank-medical-ca... ) or even the next entrepreneur who will need roads, educated workers and security in order to build his business.

On a different note, I must say that I blame more the system that made it possible to give people mortgages who can't pay. Even more, I blame a system that demolishes houses ( http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124148169574985359.html ) instead of pricing them better. As a bonus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_lending
Do you have a good reason why they shouldn't?

Apparently 113,798 people found a reason to download the 3.2.2 Windows installers (32 and 64 bit) from python.org through only the first 10 days of the month of October. http://www.python.org/webstats/usage_201110.html

(doesn't include mention of the 3.2 source tarball downloads, which are under 5,000, most likely since people get that from their distro anyway)
>>> I think to some part this reflects the fact that, well, Javascript was not really intended to be a platform to be compiled against, it is just used that way because it is the only platform in the browser.

I'm not so sure this is the case as it is VERY easy to get started with CoffeeScript and have it watch files for changes (at least on a mac with homebrew).

I've experienced general difficulty getting started with Clojure compared to something like Python or CoffeeScript. I suppose I haven't spent considerable time on it (Clojure is just a hobby for now) but the problems I've run into so far are an out of date version on homebrew (1.2 rather than 1.3) and difficulty just getting a usable REPL going (where I can edit lines and use the up-arrow). I'm very attracted to the aesthetics of Clojure but there is so much friction just to get started that I've only been using 4clojure (try-clojure has been non-functional every time I've tried it). I think this is an area that definitely needs to be addressed for Clojure/ClojureScript to get the mainstream traction that node.js/JS/CS enjoy.
People (some people) deal very poorly with far future deadlines, where "far" ranges from "after this conversation is over" to "months from now." Middle class Americans are typically trained to be a little better at this than humans are born to, but at the end of the day you're running Well-Educated Professional 2011 on hardware designed to be minimally capable of executing SimianOS.

There's also a spectrum of, shall we say, commitment to one's application which is orthogonal to quality of the application. If I were to ever apply, that would be a Certified Big Deal for me personally, but for someone running a successful business, speaking to investors, and in the middle of hiring engineer #3, this might be just one more thing on the ToDo list. That doesn't necessarily make my business a better fit for YC than her's.
It has the ability, but doesn't not part of the default IIRC unlike GWT which is built around permutations. GMail I think varies permutations. However, there are sound reasons for wanting to do so besides differing DOM capabilities, namely, that different JS VMs have different performance characteristics and what may be an optimal pattern for one, isn't for another.
You can just hit the home button again. I always think of open folders as just another state of the home screen, just like any of the apps maintains a state.
The example in the slide uses `-Wall -O`, and `-Wall` includes `-Wuninitialized`.

Recent versions of GCC have a revamped syntax tree analyzer, which was needed for the new tree-vectorize features. It does more work from the outset these days, so I'm not surprised if it throws the warning earlier.
I would be uncomfortable paying extra for something on Netflix when I already pay a flat rate to get everything. Pay-per-view services would be a slippery slope that I wouldn't be pleased with. I hope they keep pay-per-view to some other company/service-by-another-name-that-isn't-advertised-on-Netflix.com.
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The iPad was not revolutionary... it is a giant iPhone with no phone. I would have said I wanted one beforehand, and believe probably 80% of the people who have bought one would have thought it looked awesome. So no, I disagree.
Steve Jobs - a copier of other people's great ideas
Not really, no; for several reasons. You need to pick apart those statistics and look at risk factors (e.g. breaking limits, laws, alcohol) and also weigh up how much fun it is. Skydiving is dangerous but fun - I did it for a year, but ultimately it wasn't for me. Climbing mountains is dangerous, but there's a huge sense of accomplishment involved. Riding a motorbike is similar: there's less risk than the previous, but you can do it much more often, and the risk is scalable by how aggressively you ride.

I've had a few ~30mph scooter spills in the past three years - a couple of lowsides from loss of traction owing to cornering too harshly in poor weather and poor surfaces (scooters exacerbate this owing to not having much lean angle to play with), as well as an 18 year old kid in a car who pulled out of a parked position behind a bus and did a u-turn as I was overtaking the bus - but none the worse for wear other than a scratched visor and a slightly scraped elbow (and an insurance payout to replace my bike).

Ironically, I've travelled much further in total on my big bike (but over shorter time periods) with no incidents at all, yet was pushing myself through twisty mountain roads and much higher speeds. But I had the experience to watch extra carefully for road surface quality and dial right back in bad weather.

You've got to die sometime. You only have a short time on this planet. Do you want to live fearfully and protect all that you have until your grave (when you'll lose it all anyway), or do you want to go out and live a little?

At least on a motorbike you're more likely to hurt yourself than other people. I find driving a car, on the other hand, quite a scary experience owing to how large it is and how little vision you have of everything around you. It would be so easy to hit something small while reversing (a child, say), or clip something (like a cyclist) going around a corner.

(I should add that I rarely ever go on my scooter without protective jacket, and almost never on my big bike without protective trousers and boots too. I never ride without gloves or full-face helmet.)
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Indeed, you need the warning and the optimization to make it work.

That note came from the man page for i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2, FWIW.
Would it be possible to define the KG as the amount of copper wire, when arranged in a configuration (a coil?), that causes a magnetic field of a certain size when a specified current is applied?
If you open it in Emacs, by default (at least it did when I toyed with 21) it leaves the trailing newline off.
If YC is blocking it you should probably follow up with them first before routing around it.