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Agreed.

First: great that the title formatting has been changed!

Second: come on HN, do we really need a post about this on the front page..?
Let me get this straight, he thinks 900k is going to be enough to retire on, send a kid to college, and lay for his future medical bills!? That home building business started during the home building boom better be earning more than 50k.
Many people play football without any hope for making money of it. Why does the fact that someone somewhere makes money from it matter?
This makes me wonder if this type of cloud icons is going to replace the floppy disk as a metaphor for saving. It certainly is about time.
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We've managed to change it up a bit. http://pixelcloud.com/
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> Population density is hardly a good measure.

thirsteh claimed that Copenhagen was overcrowded. I didn't bring density into the discussion.

> Munich has 4300 people/km2 and, let met tell you, it's hard to find an affordable flat there. NYC or Paris are hardly a good comparison, either. In this sense, Munich is very crowded

"Crowded" in the sense that thirsteh used refers to population density, not whether or not it's hard to find an apartment. Also, you can't automatically assume that it's hard to find an apartment in Copenhagen just because it is in other cities. It's gotten a lot easier in the past few years, and if you're willing to look beyond the city center, you'll find something pretty fast.
My thoughts exactly. He used the rent from 1 house to cover the mortgages on both his rental and his own house.

A typical mortgage around here is about 1/3rd of your income. So being able to basically have other people pay 2 mortgages for you is _huge_.

He also mentions he bough a bunch of Cisco stock for 7$ which he later got to sell for 30$. That's more than a 300% return, so depending on how much he invested, that can easily amount to a hefty chunk of cash as well.
Isn't that the problem that version control has solved? Once the first commit is done you're just uploading deltas/changesets, so the size of the project doesn't really matter.
Yep, this server is stuck on CentOS 5.5, which is apparently the latest the host offers.

I'm glad the new version uses a current kernel - I (naively) assumed that as the server was set up recently, the version of CentOS installed would be the newest one.
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Culture shock. I was a military wife and lived in Germany for a bit less than four years. I had to deal with some culture shock when I first got there, but not nearly as bad as many Americans who go there: My mother is German, I already spoke some German, I knew from family stories that the furniture and stuff is different.

One of the big issues Americans have with German homes: "The refrigerator is the size of a dorm refrigerator!!!!" This weirds out many Americans like it's the end of the world or something. Oh, and let's not get into the fact that many apartments are "unfurnished"* -- by that, they mean there is no refrigerator or stove or kitchen cabinets or light fixtures (just wires sticking out the ceiling) or kitchen sink (just a tap sticking out the wall). Germans move into rentals and buy appliances, kitchen cabinets, etc. The American housing office would cut deals with landlords and go in and supply the sink, stove, frig (an American style frig), etc. If you aren't military and don't have a housing office bridging some of these issues for you, hey, you get to cope on your own with the difference between what is normal in the US and what is normal in other places.

If you aren't up for that, yeah, run back to the US and continue to measure "civilization" solely in terms of (your concept of) material wealth, without regard to food quality, actual culture, local history and so on. Please do so quickly, before doing yet more damage to the public image other nations have of us "ugly Americans".

* This was more than 2 decades ago. I have no idea if things have changed since then. Feel free to give an update if you have more current info.
I think even without having seen those logos, I would draw a cloud the same way: one big bump with a smaller bump on the side. I wouldn't go as far as referencing the golden ratio, but something about it feels "right." It's hard to explain unless you're also artistically inclined.
It's not for making the colors nicer to look at for you but to avoid you putting on clothes which doesn't match in colors and look really off-putting to the non-color-blind (e.g. red pants, pink T-shirt).
Yup.

I'll check the PDF, thanks. Also see:

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm

http://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue22/features/golden/ind...

People do seem to like ratios of small integers, though. Which is why the supposed aesthetic elegance of 1.618 ((1+sqrt(5))/2) is most probably within statistical significance of 1.5 (3/2) or 1.666 (5/3), it's impossible to test whether people don't just enjoy ratios of small integers instead of the irrational number Phi.
There's a lot of significance in function/method signatures and non-alphanum chars that google is getting to grips with (and hoogle/hayoo for haskell seems to be state of the art).

Ruby Class#method, the (dozens or more) symbolic "operators" in scala, haskell, ocaml (which are generally functions, not operators).

I think it's up to each language community to build those tools now.
It's overcrowded in terms of housing available.

It's expensive in general. It has about the highest cost of living outside of Japan. OP was moaning something about not being satisfied with giving up half his paycheck.
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It puzzles me how the author of this article came to the conclusion that Apple borrrowed/stole its cloud icon from Pictos.

Apple's MobileMe was announced on June 6, 2008. From the start, it used the same cloud icon. [1]

According to the Pictos web site (and the Wayback Machine), the Pictos collection came into being in 2010. [2]

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20080720090522/http://www.apple.c...

[2] http://wayback.archive.org/web/20100701000000*/http://pictos...

Edit: I thought of one possible explanation. The author, a designer at Microsoft, explains his reason for writing the article is because people accused him of copying Apple's cloud icon for use on ASP.net's website. This made him search for earlier examples than Apple's, to somehow justify using the same cloud shape that so many lazy designers do now.
This has to be the most uninspiring and boring life story I've read so far. His focus on speeding to an early retirement is frankly depressing. He could have applied the same discipline and hard work on making great products.
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Why is 2GB a problem? I use more than that almost every day downloading movies & TV shows...
Definitely. It also becomes a nightmare you really don't want to lose quality development time to when you try and introduce a new workflow system mid- or late-project.

We have this problem at work where our repos aren't set up right (basically everything going into subdirectories of one monolithic repo) and a side-effect is it's difficult for us to figure out a good backup and deployment system (so we do it by hand).

It's an easy thing to sort out when just starting a new project, but when you're half way through it and the deadlines are coming close it's no longer a priority, just an annoyance you think you'll get around to later.

Add to that the fact that you might not really consider burglary to be a plausible threat, and that they say they did do backups between computers, it seems they just accounted for the more real threats (hardware failure), thought that system worked well for them, and left it at that.
Just checked for Pennsylvania (2009-10 academic year), and while the biggest spenders are over double the lowest spenders, there are no order-of-magnitude-difference pairs. Also, only two of the top ten spenders (per student) were in the top 10% academically.
Not to mention his wife's salary.

But the HN posting title seems to have been adjusted from the original title (which doesn't mention corporate programmer salary).
The problem is that what works in Finland won't necessarily work elsewhere. For example in Finland teach is a high prestige job in a large part because Finland doesn't have the range or number of alternative professional careers available that countries like the US have.
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> It's overcrowded in terms of housing available.

Except that's not what overcrowded means. Also, most people I know (including foreigners) manage to get an apartment pretty quickly - but you can't expect to get something in the city center in a day without making an effort.

> It's expensive in general.

With housing being the notable exception. Try comparing what $700 or $1000 will get you in Copenhagen with what it'll get you in London, Paris, or NYC and you'll see what I mean.

> OP was moaning something about not being satisfied with
> giving up half his paycheck.

That's another area where he probably didn't do his homework. First of all, the wages are some of the highest in the world. Secondly, while the tax rate is high, the amount of deductions is so big that the vast majority of people don't give up as as much as half their paycheck.
Come on now, size is no excuse, we're using subversion and git with Unity projects that are well north of 2 GB.

Use git-submodule for your sounds and videos and other binary blobs.

Unity makes their own asset server for people who aren't comfortable with git or svn -- there's plenty of debate on the quality of this option, and it's more money, but it's definitely cheaper than losing your entire game.
Am I mistaken or they didn't used the golden ratio for the arrow in their icon? The arrow seems bulky and weirdly proportioned. I wonder how it would look like if they did.
In my opinion this post ignores the significant divide between the general understanding of hardware and software.

Most people have a general idea of how an internal combustion engine works, how their fridge works, how a tv works, hell, even about how a nuclear power plant works. Most people wouldn't know how to make any of these things, but it's not exactly a "dizzying invisible depth" either, and most people are capable of making informed decisions without being engineers.

When it comes to software however, most peoples understanding remains completely at the surface. I don't believe this is something we should accept as "normal", because this is exactly what leads to many of the issues our society is currently struggling with. Not just software patents, but many of the current security and privacy issues or the huge unemployment.

The general understanding of software was not, and still isn't part of peoples culture and education in the same way a basic understanding or hardware has always been. This significantly undermines the decision making on all levels of society, from government policy to personal choices. The patent mess is just a symptom.
>Where 1st gen children who keep their culture of origin do well academically (if their culture demands it) but subsequent generations absorb more of the african-american culture which shuns academia.

You can't really change a culture though. Is there any way you think it can be fixed?
Great comment. So essentially if we bring the system I posted, the unit of measurement of the system will become the new money.
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I agree. Encryption is a good idea, but I just don't think it's all that practical. If people really wanted to crack encryption, the technology is there (and if the person has the patience and time) it will be cracked. And they don't want to spend the time and effort to get that encrypted info, there are other ways to really get at it. The user still remains the unpredictable variable and weakest link in network security. I just think there are better ways to secure networks and the internet...
My landlord used to vacation in a nice coastal area. For a number of years, he went to the same town, same rental. At one point, the cottage came up for sale. $200k. He dismissed it as too much of a risk for his financial situation at the time. Less than five years later, the boom and bubble in coastal properties had exploded the market value to $600k. For a humble cottage. That regret (he could have bought the cottage and rented to cover) - missing that opportunity is why he purchased multiple properties in an up and coming area before it became the young professional magnet that it is today. He had done quite well for himself, a liberal arts major who has minored quite successfully in real estate.
Relays!

I'm ashamed I didn't suggest those first. One of life's most precious moments was touring the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club during the last year of their old switching system's operation. It was built around some old relay-based telephone switch the size of a couple of refrigerators, and the whole thing made these awesome clacking noises. It also emitted this constant, periodic metallic click, like a metronome, which I was told was the clock.
Judging from the post on their homepage they're not stopping development.
Well, the PISA testing started at 2000 and the current Finnish system was established back in the 1970's. Finland has always been pretty much at the top of the class with PISA studies. The fame came mostly as a shock for the nation, as we have always had pretty common lil'brother & grass-is-greener attitudes towards the rest of the world.

Also: the stuff measured by PISA (Math, sciences & reading) is only around 50% of the national curricula. The rest are about foreign languages, arts & excercise, religion, philosphy, history etc... There are more art, craft & music classes than say, mathematics. While wasting less time teaching and learning in classroom than most (http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/04/09/less-school-higher-...). If I were to engineer a PISA-breaking education system, I would probably not approach it like that.

(The curricula (.pdf): http://www.minedu.fi/export/sites/default/OPM/Koulutus/yleis...)
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Awesome tutorial. This is the first time I have seen a tutorial that actually goes end-to-end.
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And pretty cool that he has chosen an already existing game here. Pretty smooth!
He's letting that 900K appreciate, so it should be enough soon for a lifestyle as frugal as theirs.

And I expect that his income will remain good. There's something about being able to say 'no' that puts you in a position to snap up the really juicy work.
There's more to life than writing code 9-to-5 for someone else. Some people want the freedom to code when they want on projects they choose. They may also want the freedom to do other things like travel the world and spend time with people in places that would otherwise not be possible.

Nothing wrong with wanting something different.
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What is this based on? For someone living in Finland, this seems very far from the truth.
Only a bit. Still within the ballpark.
I'd love to hear his wife's take on this frugality. "I didn't miss the 2nd car a bit" - I imagine the Mrs. has a different idea about that.

So pretty much, have a high-earning wife and buy a firecracker realestate deal that pays 2 mortgages. Doesn't sound so much brilliant as lucky?
I spend $12/month on github. I think Atlassian now even has free private repos. You're simply not taking taking basic precautions by not doing an offsite backup.

If you work on a laptop like me, for example, just assume one day you'll be in a public place and when you turn around your laptop will be gone.
As nobody ever checks and bothers to measure these things:

- the ratio of the bounding rectangle is indeed between about 1.60 and 1.64 depending on how you fudge the pixels. but only for the inner cloud shape, including the embossed highlights, not for any of the other four possible measuring points.

- the ratio of the two small circles might be 76:47 if you again fudge the pixels just right, but then it's 1.617, so that's really close.

- the ratio of the two larger circles on the right is way off. 106:71 is a ratio of 1.49 and that's not going to come anywhere near the golden ratio no matter how much you fudge it.

Hey if anyone got a much higher resolution version of this icon I could measure the ratios to within some precision, that might be nice.

Additionally the ratio between the biggest and the smallest circle is almost exactly 4:9. I bet that's really significant too. Because 9 - 4 = 5, and as the great Malaclypse the Younger already stated in his magnum opus Principia Discordia: "All things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropriate to 5. The Law of Fives is never wrong."

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It seems that both the title article and yours say exactly the same thing: "Steve Jobs' might be alive today if he had the surgery immediately when it was first recommended to him." The title article is very inflammatory. Your link is much more balanced: cancer is a bitch, and it's impossible to know anything about it with certainty.

But the difference between the two articles is purely style, not substance, in my opinion.
"By the time afternoon rolls around, you’re in caffeine withdrawal. This is often why people are sapped by mid-afternoon."

Actually, no. You feel sapped in the afternoon because you need a 15-20 minute nap. That's normal. Take the nap and you'll feel energized for the rest of the day.
Please change the huge PNG's on your site into JPEGs of the correct size. I shouldn't be sitting waiting for thumbnail screen shots to download. A similar thing happens on the blog gallery section - you have huge images, that just display as thumbnails, re-compress/re-size and reduce your bandwidth.

Looking through your site you really need to spend more time on your core product. You have loads of pages about who you are, your office, your mentors, yada yada yada. I see more content about your company than your product at the moment. Also, most/all of your top nav opens new tabs (on the homepage), this is just annoying. You seem to be running two sites, one of which appears to be just a fancy homepage (www. & about.).

As others have said, you seriously need to address your server count/infrastructure. It's just throwing money away.
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Well, universally I'd label that the OMGspeculativemarketisabouttocollapse meme.

Also missed out the travel for a year and see the world while running a blog meme. My personal favorite seeing reality hit and post schedule start to slip Scheudenfreud is awesome :)
It seemed to me that the significant thing about the post wasn't really its content (which the world at large doesn't understand or care about), but that a genius Google employee had proved incapable of navigating their flagship social networking product, resulting in the public distribution of content that was intended to be private. I don't actually know if the mainstream press have made anything out of that, but it seems like potentially fairly massive PR fail.
Before the crash, virtually all real estate deals were firecrackers, so no luck was involved there. The luck involved was in mostly cashing out before the crash. He doesn't say whether 2011 is year 11 or year 15...
There's always an outlier who attributes his success to skill (and he's usually writing a book about it so we can all follow his three step process to riches).
I would love to hear the HN community thoughts on my article. My new blog is a work in progress and I am always open to suggestions how to make it better.

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One more addition, this is where the blogger is mistaken:

Funny thing about the Golden Ratio, if you look for it, you'll find it everywhere.

He meant to say "five", not the golden ratio. 1.666 = 2/3 and 2+3=5. Because as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst said to Malaclypse, "I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look."
We're Brits, that's just how we talk sometimes (especially when drunk). Don't take it to heart. Although I do think he should have got his thoughts clear and told his mates before making a proper public statement.

As for Paypal, I'd assume they have algorithms taking care of fraud potential and detection. And for the algorithm to be correctly trained, they must have been bitten previously. The hate is just because we always hate them, like Microsoft.
He's a developer at Microsoft, not a designer. Quite a well known one.
This sort of thing happens fairly often in the
indie game & game mod scene.

It does? Can't think of any other instance & honestly I think it's pretty ridiculous to automatically assume malice on their part.
Rhythmically, it sounds exactly like a hippie drum circle.

EDIT: To whomever downvoted me, I like hippie drum circles.
Better check that guess before relying on it.
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I think you underestimate the relative skills/responsibilities of flight attendants vs. female Japanese office workers. They former are trained in airplane security and first aid. The latter are just administrative assistants -- even the few ones that can speak English aren't trained to be translators, for instance.

For what is worth, I use US or Canada airlines because their Tokyo-N.America-Sao Paulo flights are way cheaper than the good Asian ones (as in U$1500 instead of $2000).
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Unfortunately it has broken ihackernews.com. The comment page no longer shows the title of the article.
I also eat when I'm hungry, which happens to be at meal time, I eat as much as I want, and get no fat. It's not that I'm lucky, I got fat when I was eating shit in Algeria, but I leave in China now, eat white rice twice a day, no dessert, no bread, no potatoes, some meat including fat, many soups, a lot of different spices, no industrialy prepared food. It is not by choice, it is just what we eat in China.
Not to steal HN's thunder but that was a direct quote from the article.
No, but I thought it would be at least polite, having noticed the change, to express my appreciation for the work PG does.
This ^ is the only reply that should've been here. Not all the "WTF were you expecting" meta-rants.
Hey, they have to sit in those bleachers ...
This is more of a management issue than anything to do with the format your information is stored in. Lots of physical reels of film, photographs & documents have been lost due to poor management & I am sure this trend will continue into the digital age.