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Not long enough! I can't speak for anyone else, but you've eloquently described the main reason why I found Steve Jobs so inspiring. If you've read The Talent Code, I am definitely reminded of the chapters on Ignition, where the author Daniel Coyle writes about the conditions under which people are inspired and motivated.
What really helped us:

1) Content marketing. Write blog articles consistently and promote them to a relevant audience. Forums are usually the best place to share your articles.

2) SEO. Get the basics down (friendly URLs, titles and descriptions, h1/h2/h3 tags, etc.), and try to get quality backlinks. Work on long-tail keywords. Blogging consistently also helps with SEO.

3) PR. Keep working on PR; get stories from small to big blogs and news websites. It's a neat way of getting backlinks too.

4) Hanging out on forums where your customers hang out and display your expertise. Don't spam; contribute genuinely. Hopefully people will be intrigued enough that they check your company out.
I'm thinking about rebooting my blog.

For me, the problem is the inherent sense of obligation implied when organizing posts by date. My last post was written April, 2009, which reported that I redesigned and restaged my blog.

Ironic, isn't it?

There are many ways to solve this problem. Postary's picked a really good one, and I'm looking forward to seeing how people responds to using them. But I know it's not the only way to address this problem.

These days I'm rethinking the way I write and publish. I like easy-to-publish. I like self-hosting. I don't want databases - static site generation for me please. I like blending in my activities on other sites (like Twitter). I don't like date-based organization (it doesn't make sense for the way I do my writing).

So I'm looking for (or writing) tools that support folksonomy-based URI navigation (which supports organic site growth), easy-publish, and importing and reformatting data from other social networks. If you have any pointers, send 'em my way.
Well, they may have allegedly pre-sold one million within 24 hours, but they certainly won't get my $1,000+, which still sits by my desk waiting for the iPad3 and iPhone 5. I know two others who won't be upgrading on either product too, so thats another $2,000. Small sample, yes, yet representative of the population I'd say if you exclude end of contract "forced" sales.
There's a transparent png file in the source files that I've got out on bitbucket (https://bitbucket.org/tednaleid/vim-shortcut-wallpaper/src/t..., the white letters don't show up on bitbucket's white background), you can take that file and overlay it on top of another image in pretty much any image editor easily.
Well I have to say that initially I am not for bailing out banks. To be honest, I don't know if it is that simple. From what i understand a big reason for the bailout was to avoid the banks "problems" jumping to companies other than banks. Thus really damaging the economy. For example, just prior to the bailout BoA was about a day or two away from ceasing lending to GE. Not because anything GE did but because the shit hit the fan. In turn GE shareholder that are already scared would panic and GE stock would plummet. Needless to say that given all of the things GE has it's fingers in that trouble would spread elsewhere.

Now, have no idea if that is true, but that is something that makes the bailout less about bailing-out and more about staying afloat. If it was that is what the public should have been told.

To me all of that is speculative unless there is more information available. So unless there is more proof I will take the side that bailing out anyone or anything is usually a bad idea.
Remember that you connect the dots in retrospect, you can't do it now

[1] I think you know what speech I am refering to.
Requiem for a Dreamer
What was you overall success of the apps? I've been trying to create some for the Droid market, then branching into iOS. Is it the kind of thing that can take over a full time job, or just extra pocket cash?
And 63% of the world doesn't speak english!
Noooo. They seriously only give 2 weeks holiday a year? that's insane.
Dude, you're only 20. Hang in there. I moved back in with my parents after losing my job in 2009 (at the age of 25). It took me a year of hard work and freelancing to get back on my feet. I moved out and then struggled to keep my head above water for another 8 months doing my own thing... and then I was able to get a job that I wasn't qualified for 2 years earlier. I was on track to be a copywriter for awhile back in 2009, and then things got shaken up. Now I'm a developer and so much happier. Figure out what you're passionate about, and everything else will follow. Even if they aren't always easy, you're fortunate to have a family to turn to. What type of work do you do now/what skills do you have?
Tell HN: Flagging Works Best against Spam If More Participants Flag
I notice that the new page in general, and the noobstories page in particular, are full of spam. Experienced members of the community know what spam posts look like. (They are largely what shows up on the new page if you turn showdead on in your user profile.) Users who have accummulated enough karma can flag spam posts. Flagging more spam posts sooner clears cruft off the new page and helps users find good new submissions to promote to the main page with upvotes. Otherwise, new submissions, however good, are easily lost in the flood of spam on the new page. The noobstories view of HN is a quick way to see new submissions by newly created accounts, which, alas, are often spam. A few flags a day keeps the spam away. Sufficient flags on a new submission without comments from other participants autokills the submission, I'm pretty sure.
What's an "end of contract forced sale"? People coming off 2 year contracts today are holding a phone Apple still sells.
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Well, since this is a site people have a need for, look for and use, that must mean the process involving your "quality guidelines" is wrong, isn't it?

However, you seem to imply there's something wrong with the site.

Let me ask you a question, who decides whether a site is "right" or not? Google or the people that use the web? What was the original purpose of PageRank?

You can make excuses all you want, but fact of the matter is that Google's Search Results quality has been plummeting over the past couple of months and it all stems from Google pretending to better know what people want than the people themselves.

Good luck with your website.
Anyone want to buy a social network of triathletes and marathoners
Back in 2004 before there was Facebook, Google Maps APIs and the iPhone I started a social network called ontri.com - I was really into triathlon and marathon running at the time and there were no sites out there that focused on the middle of the packers like me at that time. The site has been a side project for me, it adds new users every day but could really use someone who is both technical and into endurance sports to take it and run with it (no pun intended). It makes money and I don't spend much time with it so I have no reason to shut it down or give it away but I'm open to creative partnerships as I would love to see someone fulfill its potential. If interested and serious, email jon at ontri.com
People that never take a risk rarely end up in great places in life. You took a risk, it hasn't worked out so far. But, you didn't know what was going to happen before you did it. An idiotic decision is one that you know is bad when you make it. Unless you have an unusual power of foresight, you're not an idiot for making the decision you made.

This struck a chord with me in two ways. First, it is easy for people to pass judgement in hindsight. Let them wallow in their cesspool of after-the-fact self-righteousness. Second, it is easy to remain in a comfort zone; we do not grow and get to those great places if we remain in that comfort zone.
It's usually the same IP brute forcing the same or multiple accounts, but there is no reason that it has to be. It is uncommon to have many hosts brute forcing a single login.
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why are you building a datacenter on a floodplain?

Every spot in our solar system is susceptible to some unrecoverable disaster. If you don't want to lose your data, you have to have copies in more than one physical location.
I really hate it when people try to turn a negative into a positive like this.

It's wonderful that he's managing to use 2 hours of his day that would otherwise be unproductive and un-fun, but if he had those 2 hours at home, he could choose to do so many more things, including spending them with family or friends.

If you're the type of person who can't do anything productive or healthy unless forced into it, a forced commute could be helpful, I guess. If you have control of yourself and your destiny, a forced commute is a negative thing.
Why would he "fix" anything, it was your mistake and it's your Search Results that are becoming less and less useful as a consequence.
Website is not loading for me. Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?gcx=c&sourc...
This past weekend I did something similar, but to learn about the new WinRT/Metro stuff in Windows 8. My github project is at: https://github.com/patm1987/PuxIrc
Cheap Trick
Uhm, I think you lost the game when you had a BADGE to cover up.
Retargeting: Effective Marketing or Creepy?
Focusing on Rank Limits Your SEO Potential
Optimizing your startup weekend experience
Analog Computing: Time for a Comeback?
Do You Suffer From the Dunning-Kruger Effect?
Chuck Norris Exception
I wrote a smaller version a few months ago with the same modules at gaweda.tumblr.com. I sent the writer some questions about his purpose as well.

I'm attempting to re-implement Viola Jones without OpenCV as a way to really understand what is going on in the algorithm (a little more difficult than I imagined). Eventually developing a feature extractor.

One of the bigger issues I find myself asking is how can I turn face detection into a business model? Everything I imagine only seems to point to mobile apps, but I can't imagine that can replace a full-time job.

I could branch into recognition, but there a plenty of companies that already have that developed.
Steve is not asking people who shared his original post to take their copies down. Here's a reshare by Rip Rowan:

https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesv...
While I think your points are very valid, the "71 lines" metric is not, because Closure Compiler tends to create really long lines.

When pretty-printed, that code became 2255 lines again.
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Ανιχνευτές βρύσες ... GSM βρύση σε μια καθολική προσαρμογέα ... Ωτακουστής μετάδοση ήχου από την περιοχή στο μέγεθος
Agree. Otherwise a page could dynamically load html via AJAX and give a totally different view to a user than what google-bot sees.
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I think in a healthy, functioning, company there is some politics. The thing about amazon is, it doesn't matter to anyone that I had pointed this out months ago. From my boss up to the person who reported to Bezos, every one of them would be embarrassed by it, but what could I do? Threaten to tell Jeff Bezos? He doesn't care. He was in the ticket and they were all pointing the finger at me. Me coming back and say "But, I pointed it out months ago"... would result in "therefore its your fault because you weren't persuasive enough!"

You can't make people take responsibility. Hell, Bezos would probably say I should have made the change anyway "You failed to take initiative". But if I had made the change, I would have been fired "You're not a team player".

Asscovering is the rule of the day and its very easy in that environment.
Toyko software company accused of phishing data
As a soon to be CPA, these recent articles on Benford's Law fascinating. But it's funny that there's extreme skepticism around Moore's Law, but Benford's Law seems to get a free pass. Just like Moore's Law it's a law matched to empirical observations - meaning it works until it doesn't.
If you enjoy the challenge of breaking into systems, consider becoming an "ethical hacker" while continuing to grow your programming skills. Break open SICP (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/) and go at it. Put the focus on learning and thinking of new ideas, not on making money at this age.

You can get paid lots of money for the opportunity to learn a whole lot more working with companies to test their networks, computers and webservers against attacks. Set up a side business just like you have with DanielsWebsites.com, to focus on vulnerabilities. The goal is to not be a small player in a huge pond of similar businesses. Avoid becoming a commodity.

Aside from technology learning, continue working on your English writing and reading skills, maths and socialization skills (meet and keep the right friends). Develop good habits of not being content or lazy. Always move forward and up, give your body to relax, rest and recharge. Give up wordpress (you're right, its too easy) and challenge yourself constantly, learn Rails or Python and see a new idea into reality.
Hi alttag. Can you explain your comment in more detail? The intent of the article is not to say that delays are good or bad, but that they are inherent and inevitable, and must be managed as such. Maybe you have a different interpretation?
That's not been my experience. In particular, commercial (ie non academic) language development is heavily influenced by business concerns, but you are very hostile to any mention of them if it's not just to disparage industry from not following the trends du jour; you believe such commercial discussion is off topic, but it actually excludes reasoned discussion of stuff the hasn't either come out of a lab or academia. If I have time, I'll go look up and post links to some of your comments. As a practitioner it put me quite off LtU for some time, and I don't interact there as much as I could.
Yup for sure. All from 222.186.. and since I blocked that 60.169.78.42. 5-10 a day and it's driving me crazy!
hey, at least you're only 20! shit son, you're life hasn't even started yet. man the fuck up and get shit done.
So the info on this page is not new? Anybody?
There's a massive amount of arrogance to this type of hiring. I think, however, that it reflects the companies opinion of itself and its employees.

Someone with significant skills is going to have significant self esteem. Are they going to want to put up with being treated that way?

In my day, the "bar raiser" didn't announce it, and so you never knew, if you even knew they did that. Announcing it seems profoundly stupid. And arrogant.
He isn't saying that. It just doesn't make a ton of sense to "honor" someone by doing something that is in no way reflective of their life choices.
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Does it make a difference on the technique used if the image is out-of-focus versus blurred by camera motion?
Seriously... what the hell is this UX stuff?
Very true,

Boot polishing manager's shoes works wonders in many companies. In a lot of places especially large corporates, Managers build their own gang. Loyalties run in the hierarchy throughout their stay in the company.

Now you might be the greatest guy on the team, but if you don't accept the manager as the king you are screwed. Your effort goes down in the drain. You work real hard to prove yourself and you get branded as a bad team player. Yes you are expected, to give away your work to the managers favorite 'kids' in the team.

I see this thing originates very early, even during the interviews itself. Such managers have knack to identify such people. And they generally get hired.

Needlessly to say such managers once in the company won't rest until they have ruined everything they will ever touch. And people whom they hire replicate the same. This continues until the whole company is left to rot.
I'm not sure whether to laugh or grimace.
First and foremost you need to extract yourself from such negative people. If your father is literally calling you and an idiot, and your friends are not supportive, then you need to get them out of your life.

Starting out on your own is hard work, and even harder when you don't have positive and supportive family and friends to help you through the rough times.
The New Value of Text
Also http://bluehackers.org/
I don't think Facetime's first year was a good measure of it's longer term outlook. The inability to use it with any past iOS products severely limited the launch impact - you were limited to whoever was buying the iPhone 4. With the 4S, just about everyone on an iOS device will have Facetime, and iMessage is obviously an effort to further this sense of a BBM-style device "club" among one's peers.
Dentista
Great explanation of how to redeem a long commute. Making the best of your situation, and using it to your advantage. (i.e., Life Hacking!)
Indeed. Nothing is stopping him from reading that book for 2 hours every day in his comfortable couch.
Benfords Law works as long as those that would mess with numbers aren't too much aware of it.

Moore's law works until you hit the limits of physics.

Benfords Law also works for the observation of various phenomena totally unrelated to human activity, so my guess is that it is here to stay. One day we will run into what we will probably call 'Moore's Wall' and then that will be that.
I have to agree with your last point. IBM is a "well run" company; they take very good care of their shareholders. Some of the things they have to do in order to take care of shareholders is one of the reasons why I no longer work there. But I still hold on to my IBM stock....
He studied 43 different variables on 20,000 firms.

That's like measuring the heart rate, LDL, HDL, blood sugar level, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, height, weight, hair length, number of children, salary, home value, and total miles driven on all of the cars... of an entire football stadium worth of people.

And it's not like he's correlating these numbers, that your salary is proportional to your home value, or your weight is proportional to your blood pressure.

No, these are statistical properties of the numbers themselves.

The hypothesis of the paper is that statistical deviations correlate with financial crises. You doubt that correlation, but you think all of thousands of other numbers can credibly show a statistical correlation? :)
Apple may launch ‘iPad mini’ in early 2012 to fend off Kindle Fire
It is interesting to see how Facebook, Google, Apple collide on mobile by bring their core competencies onto their own mobile offering. Each one also tries to lock down users, based on their advantages. If competition wins, we shall have the same exciting ground on mobile too.
How Cleaning Windows Registry Boost Performance and Security
"Disgruntled" is a straight up ad hominem attack that doesn't address whether or not what the person says is true or not.
> And it badly needs generics.

Everyone I know who has actually used Go strongly disagrees with this claim, they are very happy with Go's interface system and most of them don't notice the lack of generics at all.

Go is not like other languages, and 'features' are not interchangeable across languages.

> But you see, Go got all this attention just because it is a language released by Google.

Yea, that it was created by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike had absolutely nothing to do with it. /a
I was thinking of installed base (48% in the U.S. in August, compared to 23% for iOS, source http://searchengineland.com/comscore-android-nears-50-us-sma... ) and applications, but revenue is (or was late last year) part of the picture, too, via advertising:

Google CEO Eric Schmidt says Android-based phones already generate enough new advertising revenue to cover the cost of the software’s development.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/10/03/how-android...
Those technologies probably don't scale well in terms of hiring.

Also, those technologies probably don't scale at all to 1000s of servers, something a Google project has to do from day 1.

(I'm not sure they'd even be fast enough on a single server. As a rule of thumb, the more technologies you put in the mix, the more abstractions there are, the harder it is to minimize the work done.)
That's just sad. At least in the ice-cream case just point a random flavor, none or little more effort spent and a whole new world of potential surprises.
Thanks! I just need someone to give me some lemons and I can use my commute to make lemonade.
ok, now you're losing 1hr a day to listening to podcasts.
may be better spend those 365hrs a year with your friends/family?

Author should be really lonely if listetning to random guys sounds like a good idea....
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Why Perl?
"What doesn't make it any easier is that I'm 20"

I guess you don't have depts and children who depend on you yet. And that's the thing which makes your situation easier.
Regarding laptops, the situation has improved a lot from what you describe. Instead of crappy HP laptops, we now have thinkpads like every other tech company. And if you want a mac laptop, they'll give you a new one.

Of course there's room for improvement (SSDs, linux desktop, bring your own OS) but IT is aware of the pain points and making the appropriate cases for expenses and head count.
Hi, I'm 34 and I did the same thing two years ago. I managed to spend all of my savings and I'm now $22K in debt.
I ended up giving up and getting a 'real' job- now I get to spend the next many years paying for my 'experience'.
Now I have a new appreciation for 'side projects', bootstrapping and profitability from day one.

It'll get better - but go get a job, right now, it'll make you feel much better.
"grouchy, testy, sullen, grumpy, dissatisfied."

All of the above, and I really don't see the ad hominem in there. It's just a description of a state of mind with respect to another entity.
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Should be required reading for every one who uses the same password for every site!
AllState - Allstate Mayhem
I seriously hope Jeff Bezos reading HN.
I like the article and views posted by yahoo officials. Feel like i am in America.....man never been there....would like to go.
Nissan cuts electric car battery charging time to 10 minutes
One of the reasons Go still doesn't have generics is reluctance to 'bolt them on', and that the current language works surprisingly well without them.

Of course that wont't stop people who have not written any Go code from claiming Go is worthless without them.
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I'm surprised how many people here aren't suggesting more formal education. Only about one-third of Americans have a college degree. Getting one will set you apart. I think the tech field is a bit unique in its disdain for formal education—but throughout your career you're likely work with people for which it matters.

Self-driven learning is good (essential, I'd argue), but paying money to learn is a good motivator too. It'll get you (OP) out of the house, meeting people, and challenge you in fields you might not otherwise explore. Some important concepts are easier to grok with a good instructor. (Algorithms comes to mind.)

There's the side benefit that being a student opens you up to federal grants and loans (in the U.S.). Don't go overboard with the debt (I'd suggest not more than a year or so of borrowing), but it can help get you out of a bad place. Many universities also have student jobs, so finding work in that environment might be a little easier than otherwise. They also have career centers that will help polish a resume and refine interview skills.

Figure out what you love to do. Look for a job where you get to do it. In the mean time, any job will do.

Lastly, as others have said here, you're a more than competent writer. If you enjoy doing it, maybe you've a career option there. In the meantime, keep a journal. Not only is the process cathartic, it forces you to be reflective.