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Agreed. The pomodoro technique is great for keeping your breaks time-bound. I often just walk around the office for a few minutes and refill my water bottle, etc. Gives me a chance to stare at something else than a screen.
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40 hour work week was a reaction on the employers with too much power. They pushed their employers to work beyond their physical health limits. As a rule, a more balanced work structure was introduced that protected both partys on the long run.

There have been a lot of research about most productive work rythm. But it differs a lot depending on the kind of work. But 40 hours is a general avarage for most people.

The end conclusion is, depending on the work and your personal context, you have to find a balanced life where.
You can customise it, just not arbitrarily.

I can change the display format for the time in the status bar, but I can't have an animated kitty running about up there, as much as I'd like to.
Digikey has some in stock, but at $19.50.

http://search.digikey.com/us/en/products/STM32F4DISCOVERY/49...
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That is a great story. Shorter and simpler after mowing the lawn one dad. I told my dad I wanted to invest in stocks. He thought this was a great opportunity to teach me about money. So he loaned me money to invest in the stock market. Help me pick and buy stocks, track their values. Eventually to sell them and pay back the loan keeping profits for myself...

The only real issue was it was the start of tech bubble and I was a computer nerd. I bought all tech stocks which soared, my older brother buy shoe companies and the like...

I nearly tripled my investment while my brother lost 30ish% of his. Not sure it was quite as real world learning opportunity as he was hoping.
If you're talking about working for yourself (that is, working for customers), then sure, that makes sense.

If you're working for someone else who is paying you specifically to work 40 hours, then there's no reason to work more than that unless you consider your time worthless.
Be careful about the term "should", it implies a lot of assumptions that are probably not shared by your audience.
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Lots and lots of people don't read FAQs. They don't even read instructions on how to download something or register software, they just write to support ("where is my product?"), so my advice is: FIX YOUR SOFTWARE.

Example:

BlogJet (blog client I wrote) required entering XML-RPC endpoint URL for a blog to create an account. Of course, few people knew the endpoint URL for their blogging engine, so 80% of support requests were customers asking for help on configuring their blog. FAQ didn't help (yes, I tried); the solution was to automatically detect XML-RPC endpoint URL from their blog's URL. After I did this, the percentage of such support requests dramatically dropped.

The next 80% was customers asking to resend their registration keys. I just wrote a system to automatically resend them, so people no longer wrote to me, they just filled a form and received a key.

The next 80%... The point is, find those 80% identical support requests, fix your software or add automation to eliminate them, then repeat. Most questions that can be answered by FAQ are things you can fix in software.

As for the system where customers enter their question and get redirected to the related question in the FAQ (see Wordpress.com, Google) -- people hate this, just like they hate browsing phone support systems looking for a way to contact a real person.
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I'm also interested in this. Looks like it's only the two of us.
That is an example of a great headline. It's amazing how effective good copy writing is.
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I completely agree, but passion isn't the only way to experience joy in your work, and obsession isn't the only way to express passion.
I'm really confused as to why some people seem to have strong feelings about this.
Yeah, my office is downtown and we have our normal lunch rotation. Petra is the main place I've used it.
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Brogrammer? No. If someone referred to a female co-worker as a Hogrammer, then yes.
If all the 'Think Different' ads, the product differentiation by Apple, and the Jony Ive's memorial speech about caring about months for things that the user will never see, with no regards to its contribution to profit, cannot convince the downvoters that Apple is not like all other run the mill companies, then I don't know what will.

Regardless I hate it when people act and support the cynicism that all companies are the same, they all work for profit, there can never be a do no evil company. May all such thinkers stick to their dogma lifelong and suffer from it.
The best thing about GoogleTV is that it has HDMI passthrough, so for the most part you don't have to use it unless you really, really need it.

The only time we use it on our set (we have the Logitech Revue) is for Amazon VOD.

I'll upgrade to the new firmware, but....that keyboard as an HID device for a television is such a pain I can't see this ending well.
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At least until 2015, you won't need a license unless you're distributing commercial content to other end users or building an H.264 encoder. And the MPEG-LA has agreed to never charge anyone for watching free videos, so Youtube viewers will never get shaken down. http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/know-your-rights-h-264-pa... Maybe after 2015, they will start collecting royalties on commercial decoders.
A rather confusing post: does the author want to work only 20 hours? Or work 40 hours but be rewarded the same as someone who works 60 hours? Or work 60 hours doing something they love all the time? All of these seem quite unrealistic but for different reasons.

The 40 hour week was brought to America in 1938, brought about primarily by unions - the word 'weekend' didn't even exist until the 1870s. Enjoy the freedom that so many worked so hard to provide you.
That's the difference between really liking your job and really liking the money your job provides.
I know this is utterly mad, but, maybe some people enjoy working 40 hours per week, and some people don't.
As an in-house Recruiter at a startup, I thought I'd throw my $0.02 in.

The bottom line: you're right. There are a LOT of "bad apples" out there spoiling the names of the decent Recruiters. One person here said they've never had a call from a good Recruiter; that's because we know better. I don't call people for jobs they're not suited for. In fact, I rarely call Techies at all; you don't answer your phones.

Anyway, it's NOT always the Recruiter that sucks, as I demonstrated here: http://bit.ly/pokYV1

Loved this discussion though. Thank you all for solidifying so many of my beliefs.
Well, FLAC already can be played in the millions of Android phones out there. I don't see the point in having two different formats, it will just make worse for the consumer who want to change from one platform to another. I bought a lot of FLAC music and it is a shame that I can only listen it on my Android phone and not on my iPod.
I worked email support for a website once upon a time. I'm pretty sure 40% of the emails were "I forgot my password", despite a large "Forgot Your Password?" link on the top of every page next to the login box. And this was a rather technically-oriented website, too; most of these people had to be fairly tech-savvy to even be using the site in the first place. If those people can't read the site enough to find a link in the obvious place, my hopes of getting anybody to read a FAQ are not very high.
Commenter Nick Carr makes an excellent point, which, if you'll forgive me, I will copy-and-paste:

While I think there is, at a mechanical level, a clear parallel between the two practices, at an intellectual level they could hardly be more different. Commonplacing was a means of more deeply internalizing an author's words, as its early practitioners often pointed out. It was a sign of attentiveness, of profound engagement with text. The cutting and pasting, or mashing up, that we do online today tends to be much more cursory and superficial.

I have a "commonplace book", though I didn't know to call it that – a notebook where I hand-copy interesting passages from books I'm reading. Perhaps I'll start doing the same with passages from the web, as an intentional slowing-down of the process of textual palimpsest generation...
To me, it doesn't really matter whether or not most people care about that in their phone. The definition stands. Nobody but Apple owns iPhones. Maybe no iPhone users care about that, and that's fine. But that doesn't change the fact that they own a license to use it and not the product itself.
We totally agree. That's why we automatically pull up related FAQs but don't pull the customer away from their flow of writing a message to you. We've found it works quite well, as demonstrated by the numbers. It's not annoying like the latter system you mentioned, but surfaces those FAQs that could have helped with that 80%.

-Evan Hamilton
Community Manager, UserVoice
Mainly, I assume that if I tell someone that "bro" puns are just jokes, they will stop thinking that I'm being serious.
Many people think GoogleTV is pointless, because they can't imagine throwing away their current TV (or blu-ray, or DVR) to buy one.

That's not the point.

The point is that it's a good feature to have, and soon enough it will be silly for you to buy a TV that can't do those same tricks.

It's like a TV remote on old TVs. You probably wouldn't throw away your old TV just because it didn't have a remote. But when you bought your next TV for whatever reason, you probably wanted the one with the remote.
and the first to do about that is blogging about it.
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My bet: either the experiment will fail with a "strange" technical issue, or the "anonymous customer" will report a success but will choose to remain anonymous and not provide any more information (because he is nothing more than one of Rossi's lies).
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168 MHz, since I couldn't find that in the article. The price/performance seems poor compared to 65-cent M3s, but the performance looks impressive.
What a great idea. I wish them success!
I frequently put in extra time on projects without compensation. I care more about doing the job right than I do about squaring up a timesheet. It's not about my time being worthless, it's about my life being worthwhile.
> You can, however, take apart your car and replace the parts.

However, if you do certain mods, said car is no longer street legal.

> Your analogy fails because nobody has any expectation of replacing or changing the software in a car

Not so fast. There are lots of folks who want to change the engine control software, specifically the software related to engine performance. There's even an industry that serves (and sometimes cheats) such people.

See http://www.goapr.com/support/chip_tuning_faqs.html .
This is one of many character assassination posts by this guy in an effort to promote his own startup.

Not the best marketing strategy, folks.
That's not what our numbers are telling us. Yes, some folks will never read. But there are plenty of folks who just don't want to go digging through a big ol' FAQ. That's why pulling up matching articles while they type has been so effective for us.

-Evan Hamilton
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thanks mrbgty for taking the time to look at the site and giving feedback.
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I have added that to my list of to do.
Thanks.
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I write with my hands on paper as much as I can to get my eyes off of the monitor and my hands off the keyboard. Yes taking notes on something like evernote is more useful down the road, but for me there is something more free about jotting notes on paper. It gives me a mental break, a physical break, and if I come up with something really useful, I'll type it in a note program. As an added bonus, the retyping of it usually lets me come up with something new to add.
Something is off about this article. If anyone is truly a chronic complainer, they shouldn't have had a chance of getting hired. Startup employees need to be similar to founders, because both their compensation and the effects of their work are closer to that of founders than they are to employees at BigCorp.
Whining about 'the law' being unfair, simultaneously whining about how others aren't following 'the law' hard enough. It seems like Aaron is suffering from that all too common delusion of thinking 'laws' are formal foundations for a perfect world, rather than a mere reactionary element that stamps down activities that TPTB don't like.
If we're going to cite sources, (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crunk), but to be honest, it's always meant "chronic (high on marijuana) and drunk" here in the Pacific Northwest.
The navigation system in my car has a 20GB hard drive, runs Linux, and arguably has more power than an iPhone. I'm still not regretting the fact that I can't load software on it. When I'm trying to get somewhere, I just want the GPS to work - I really don't want to see it crash because I loaded a dodgy piece of crapware on it.

Likewise, the first time a customer tries to make a phone call and instead gets a pop up ad saying "YOUR PHONE IS AT RISK!!!!1!!!11!1!" you will know you failed at delivering a successful smartphone experience.
The original definition of crunk is "smoking chronic (marijuana) and getting drunk", but it has also become a term for getting "crazy drunk".

Either way, it seems like a bad idea to use this word in a job posting.
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Hm, I thought it was the opposite. They used to have hacks out before the phones and iOS versions were released. Apple keeps closing the doors on every new hack, so hackers are publishing fewer hacks and actually taking turns publicizing exploits so that Apple can only close one at a time.
This doesn't count as a honeypot at all because it directly references a YC start-up and comments on start-up culture. A honeypot might be an article from msnbc about sexism at Walmart.
What nearly killed Apple last time was a bad supply chain that resulted in ridiculously expensive desktops full of non-commodity parts. This time they're actually equipped to compete with efficient manufacturers, which is why their dystopian policies worry me now.
Damn... I had no idea. I guess that would explain why my year old cell phone is more powerful. Thanks for the info!

Perhaps Version 4 of the Raspberry Pi will use it!
I agree. I wouldn't buy from this site if they paid me double the cost.

Edit: If you want people to take you seriously, you should take yourself seriously. I am sure the game is great, given the offline response, but online we judge you by your website.
I'd totally be up for more research into this area. The comments I'm talking about are not asking for harder evidence. They're saying "my personal experience is worth more than yours."

And there aren't any women (that I know of) who are telling men that they can't complain about their treatment as public figures. So you've created a false dichotomy. Plus there's the fact that there are male public figures in this thread saying that women are harassed more than they are. So really, we've got people who aren't might not be public figures of any kind telling women who are to suck it up.
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Problem with using physical media - STORAGE.

Trust me, I have literally 1000's of pieces of paper lying around here with ideas, sketches, the works, built up over 15 years. I'm never going to scan any of it.

Get a tablet before it's too late.
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There's a trend in this whole thread that I don't understand. After pointing out that the users are licensing the ability to use the proprietary operating system rather than "owning" it, the main rebuttal is: nobody cares, so it doesn't matter.

I don't understand that. For example, few people care about taxes, war, or clean energy policies (less than 50% vote in much of North America). Does that mean the work done in these areas doesn't matter? The fact that most people don't care has little to do with the truth of the matter.

Only Apple owns iPhones. It doesn't matter that nobody cares about this, they still don't own their phone.
I don't know how you found that post confusing. It's pretty clear: a fixed-length work-week for any type of creative, rewarding or challenging job isn't ideal. (I added the creative, rewarding and challenging part, because I'm sure it's implied).

The op's point is that the freedom you think we ought to enjoy, isn't freedom...it's a rigid pre-defined template. Real freedom, when it comes to work-life balance, is working the amount of hours in a week which you want and is appropriate.
It's a violation of the DMCA to break DRM. Actually, I think it is technically in violation of the DMCA, but the Library of Congress recently gave a 3-year exception to jailbreaking phones. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/07/apple-loses-...
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html advises making certain changes to titles, and says you can make up your own titles, and said "Please don't do things to make titles stand out". There was a warning that a submitted editorialising title may be edited.

I generalised that to changing any link-bait (or otherwise unsuitable) title to something that better fits the intent of this site, which I think is a good guideline.
If by being kids are you focusing on purely unproductive play, or worse passively watching TV, then No.

Of course, I think there should be some of that. In fact, I think even adults should have some of that. I still play Go. I even still play Magic The Gathering and Video Games. And I watch more TV than I care to admit and let my kids watch more TV than they shoudl.

But the TV is a guilty pleasure I know I should cut back on for them and me, and even playtime comes after the home work is done and comes along with me trying to teach them things they won't learn in school. I try to make the lessons fun as well as educational, but I'll let the fun slide long before I let the educational part slide.

Paul Graham incidentally at least touches on this (and the fact that "childhood" now lasts much longer than it used too) in Why Nerds are Unpopular at http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
Without subsidizing the price they can't sell GoogleTV boxes for $150 bucks they'd be losing money. Not with any decent sort of processing power. Remember all those Android smart phones out there are subsidized by contracts. Apple's box is subsidized by iTunes sales.

I'm telling you a lot of those console like games on Android smart phones aren't going to work on a GoogleTV with a $150 price point.

EDIT: I'm not saying the BOM on the boxes are over $150 but total costs involved (marketing/manufacturing/support) would run at a loss. Or even that Apple is selling their box at a loss but the platform is subsidized.
It depends. Whether a term is sexist depends on intention, as the term itself is ambiguous in meaning. One of the meanings is sexist, another meaning is an oxymoronic contraction of words; the kind of language joke hackers are supposed to enjoy.

If we attempt to spin things in a positive light, it may be assumed that the intention was to describe the culture in their startup, which involves jokes around such terms as 'brogrammers'.

If we attempt to spin things in a negative light, they are obliviously sexist.

The truth may be anywhere in between, but the truth doesn't matter: only reception does. And it isn't being received well.
I just watched your demo video, and the system looks nice and very useful, unlike those I wrote about in the last paragraph -- customers instantly see the answer to their question without interruption.
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It's useful for weeding out this place as an employer. As a male programmer who intends to remain a programmer, I'm disheartened by this future where I may have to work for juveniles and have these types of discussions.
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Journalists traditionally "go to jail" to protect the identity of a source in the face of a judge's request that the identity be revealed. Part of this derives from their ethical obligation to protect the anonymity of a source once they have promised to do so in order to gather information for a story. It's also done for practical reasons, as to disclose the identity would cripple their ability to collect information in that manner going forward.

I'm reluctant to see that as parallel to refusing to turn over evidence of a crime. For example, if a journalist had documents that are potentially incriminating of a third party, and a judge asked for them, I don't know the journalist would refuse.
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Perhaps you are making reference to some papers they filed with the U.S. Copyright Office that noted that modified copies of Apple software are used in the process of jail-breaking. The claim was that the process was copyright infringement.

Note that this is different from saying that it is criminal. Under U.S. copyright law, not every infringement is criminal. In fact, criminal infringements are the exception, not the rule.

So, as far as I know, they did not claim what you say they claim. Unless you have a good citation to the contrary, that is.
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The other factor is that the patents that serve as a disadvantage for MP3 will be expiring sometime around 2015-2018.
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Of course, there are many worse things to spend your time on as a kid than a combination of physical exercise and teamwork.

Do you see something wrong with playing soccer? Or was the key word in that sentence the "just"?