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I mean sure, I can take your money. I can promise you things. So what?

What do you mean so what? People can always go back on their contracts, does that mean nobody should do anything ever?

If you're promising to support, say, Ubuntu 11.10 on a Blah Blah GX23921r3i laptop, then the 'so what' means that if I can't get wireless working, I'll contact your support and you will, because you've promised that hardware and that OS can work and that you know how to make it do so. It means I can trust X hardware and software to make a usable combination without having to gamble that I hit a compatible X driver or Y setting on my own, or put up with a laptop which can't wake from sleep, or whatever.

And why the hell was I downmodded for asking a legit question? Is this place falling into reddit land?

No whinging about downvotes - it could be someone on a mobile device misclicking for all we know.
I think there's more of a balance to be struck here. It's true people can be thrown for an emotional loop by their lives outside of work, and to persecute them for that will just make it worse. On the other hand, I have personally found that working with (and being around) depressed people is absolutely poisonous to my happiness and associated traits such as motivation and productivity.

Maybe that makes me selfish for wanting someone else to deal with the problem, but seriously. I don't want to deal with your problems. There are too many awesome people in the world that raise me up to heights to want to attach an anchor to my feet like that.
Read is the bare minimum. I requested write so that people that are helping can send out a tweet from the form to let their followers know that they are taking calls about a certain topic.

It doesn't tweet without the user's consent.

edit: Also, full access includes direct message, which it doesn't request.

Update: Removed write access, just read. Thanks for the feedback.
"A pound of muscle burns about 6 calories at rest"

Is that per hour or per day?
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

I hesitated to start. Partly because I found the original Harry Potter kind of boring/frustrating. And partly because it's fanfiction, a sort of writing I do not normally enjoy.

I'm most of the way through the 1200 pages and find it pretty enjoyable.

Harry's portrayal seems pretty uneven (swinging between "scientist/genius in an irrational world" and "arrogant prick demigod").

I like Drako's additional depth far better than Rowling's one dimensional jerk.

Find it here: http://www.elsewhere.org/rationality/ (after the first few chapters I switched to the pdf version.. link on the right of that page)
Have there been any usability tests (or even just a logical argument) that show the OS X-style dock to be a good UI mechanism?

Seems to me that turning off magnification and flushing it to a corner (so that everytime it grows it doesn't move around the existing icons) would have been a better default solution.

Apple usually thinks these things through though so maybe I'm missing something?
Thank you so much for that very informative post.

I am not really good in speaking french, and I will make the landing next january..
I need to know, is it mandatory to speak french to be connected with local businesses in Montreal?

Finally.. what is the safer area to live at in Montreal, specially for a family with kid? :)
Thanks so much again for your great help.
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Maybe they count each US state as a country?
Or, in networking in general, it isn't so much who you know, it is who knows you.
Right now it would resolve to the location of whichever of our name servers handled the request. Theoretically we could pass through the original requestor's IP address, but we don't right now.
Thanks for the follow up.

Still, I wouldn't place such a rude "I don't care, it's deleted, mail me again when I'm back" autoresponder.
Show HN: my idea of startup community
I hate to be cynical but it seems like doing this is just saying, "I am more important than the people who send me email, so I will place the burden of tracking my schedule on them."
The other interpretation of this is that his email inbox is generally full of useless dreck that does not matter all that much to either him or the sender.
Perhaps the success of this experiment says more about the kind of email he receives than it does about the general applicability of the experiment itself.
I'd read Six Easy Pieces first.
"In our experience, we’ve found the link between believing and succeeding incredibly powerful and real."

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I would like to see a statically typed language with compile time checking of comments. If a comment references a function and the signature later changes, that comment should throw an error at compile time. It would also be nice if a comment, or parts of a comment, could be tethered to pieces of code, so that any modifications to that code will produce a warning indicating you should potentially update the comment.
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Not that many although the tech industry doesn't seem to be going anywhere thank fate. Still, it's not like those jobs are even theoretically available to more than maybe a quarter of the population. One thing that surprised me when I read it[0] was the huge difference in profitability of domestic and multinational firms in Ireland per employee in the same sector. Twice as productive, twice.

[0]http://www.gillmacmillan.ie/economics/economics/economy-of-i...
There are no titles at a small startup. You are all founders. And being a CTO of a small startup is absolutely nothing like being a CTO of a midsize company.

You should focus on what your current at hand skills are and how to get the company to succeed.
> And it's not like people who actually have something important to tell me can't give me a phone call.

That's what I'd be worried about in doing something like that, actually. I don't really like phone calls, and I'd prefer even people who have my phone number to email me if the matter doesn't absolutely require a phone call. So I wouldn't want my email habits to push more people to call me.
Cherokee vs Nginx: Is Cherokee the best static content server for a beginner?
I have read the pros and cons of most of the popular web servers and have come to a conclusion that Apache would (probably) be the best web server for serving dynamic content - - no wonder YouTube, Flickr and Facbook, among many others, use it.

I do not know if that C10K problem applies to Apache even when serving dynamic content only (I think it does), but I think any web server used to serve dynamic content needs some good tweaking for optimized performance, and the fact that nothing beats Apache when it comes to documentation, resources and support on the web, I think should will go with Apache for dynamic content.

That apart, the confusion begins when it comes to choosing web servers for static content (including streaming videos). I see that Nginx, Cherokee and Lighttpd are among the best (I am not considering non-open source or non-linux stuff here). So, which to choose?

[1] I know one cannot go wrong with any of the three (Nginx, Cherokee, Lighttpd).

[2] Lighttpd's development has evidently gotten slower than it was a good time ago.

[3] The documentation is pretty good for all the three, and hopefully, so are the knowledge resources on the web.

Precisely, and noting point [2] and [3], if I am not wrong, I should either go with Nginx or Cherokee. I would love to see someone clarify these...

>> is Cherokee just as fast (mb/s), performant (connections/s), and reliable (think downtime/restarting server) as Nginx for serving static content and load balancing, for small, medium to large (and really large) websites and applications? (Think, the size of YouTube, Apache or Facebook.)

>> How about streaming videos? Does Cherokee do it as well as Nginx? or are there any limitations?

>> if the answer for the Q above is a big "hell, yes!" then, I should probably prefer Cherokee, right? Because, since I am a beginner, it would a lot easier to setup Cherokee as it has a graphical admin user interface + really good documentation. Yes?
Yes I know, but we're planning to grow fast, hire more and more engineers, so I need to prepare for that somehow, learn to be more than best.
You might be doing something wrong

I am aware of restoration period for muscle tissue rebuilding — I have struggled with this for 10+ years (getting my BMI down from above 28 to around 22 in that period) and have of course read plenty related to weight loss (metabolism, calories, strength-training) hoping to find the silver bullet, but there is none (for me), it’s just a lot of hard work, hence why I felt mrtron’s comment deserved a reply.
FYI, Terminal.app has an option to make Option work as the meta key, it's under Keyboard. Also, C-w deletes words.

You can also hold option and click to move within the line, although unfortunately this doesn't work if you have Option assigned as the meta key.
I guess that already exists in some way or the other (e.g. social media monitoring). The interesting bit here would be to track interactions w/ a specific person throughout different social medias.

Just my 2cts ;-)
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Firing those sort of people certainly seems to be the best way of ending up with an organisation full of yes men.

Unlike the article author, I think getting rid of the people that incessantly moan about rigid company policies, bluntly tell management their strategy sucks and god forbid actually claim to know things about their market is the perfect recipe for failing to spot the next Netflix/Google/telephone because nobody wanted to upset morale by raising it at the company's Praise Our Strategy session.
Unless they are an idiot savant, anyone who can do math very well can learn to use English (or whatever their native language is) competently. Anyone who says otherwise is making excuses, usually for laziness.
Looks like American business has taken a page out of the Soviet management playbook, though a bit late. This sort of inter-worker competition, with high score lists being publicly posted, attempts to use high-quota workers to motivate/shame/scare others to catch up, even adding "game-like" elements, etc., were all popular motivational tools in Soviet factories. (Cf: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/soviet_gamification.html)
Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank, ofcourse. (still a noob)
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HTML5 is on a killer spree, Web Sockets May partially “kill” HTTP as well
We considered DNAME records, however a DNAME only redirects subdomains:

Unlike a CNAME RR, a DNAME RR redirects DNS names subordinate to its owner name; the owner name of a DNAME is not redirected itself.

Thus for this to work for a second-level domain the redirection would have to occur at the top-level domain. In essence the behavior is not what is needed for this particular problem.
Napoleon and Alexander the Great killed a lot of people.

Colombus wanted to profit owning a big part of what he "discovered"(including the people).

Most of the founding fathers of America had slaves on their properties and also killed people.

America's pioneers killed native Indians, stole everything they owned and eradicated Buffaloes, dried rivers, cut ancient forest, contaminated the water for profit.

The best generals on the WWs killed people, cheated on their wifes, drank a lot, let their people to beat and rape their enemies...

And here we are discussing that some guy was not perfect. Of course not, learn and focus what you can about the positive and try to incorporate in in your life, if you can.
Is it bad that I've never heard of this app or seen it been used in the wild before? The iPhone app looks really ugly, and I can't see myself convincing my friends to start using it if they have to pay for the app when we could just be using iMessage, SMS, or Facebook Messenger. What's the draw here?
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I would not trust my Twitter account to an outside party. Could you provide other login mechanism? Also I rather liked if it just used microphone as international calls are probably too expensive.
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Do you have an indian passport? Are you of official dual nationality? If not, then you are an American. Your personal preference is your own. As far as the state and your neighbours are concerned, you are an American. If you wish to identify yourself as Indian-American, you are free to do so. But to your neighbours, and to me, you are an American.
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I'm thinking of buying a 1st Gen. Ps3 since I do not own one now. It selling for 150.00 with 7 day any reason return policy. It is 60gig 1st gen backward compatible. I'm not as savvy with the new systems and want some advice. Is this a good deal or should I buy a new one instead? Am I missing out on any features besides storage? I have a time constraint so any suggestions would be highly appreciated.
The three types of people to hire:

1) People who never think anything is wrong.
2) People who will believe anything.
3) People who don't care about facts.

... success!
When I was 12 (18 now) I decided to make a website for my boy scout troop and I ran Microsoft Frontpage and used GoDaddy and got a website up. It was something about putting something I made online and being able to access it anywhere that really drew me in to the web world. I haven't stopped from there and have been very successful in my endeavors since then. I am living in a downtown apartment working for myself doing things I love after just graduating high school. Sadly but truly not many people my age can say that, especially around here (in the south.) All that to say, it was an awesome feeling at age 12 having something online and being proud of something I made. From there it never stopped and really grew into a passion I hope to carry for a lifetime.
The difference is whether it is based in reality, and it is hard because it can be hard to stay in touch with reality when your ego is invested.

So much nicer when you just fire everyone who doesn't stroke your ego.
The head of Princeton's physics department wrote, "Is Feynman Jewish? We have no definite rule against Jews but have to keep their proportion in our department reasonably small because of the difficulty of placing them."
"Beatings will continue until morale improves."
Upgrading to Rails 3.1
This is good advice, but it's dangerous for leaders who aren't themselves deep experts on their issues that divide their people. It hinges pretty strongly on a boss being the most discerning person at the table.

As all of the comments point out:

For 'victims', 'nonbelievers' and 'knowitalls', read 'defenders of the unpopular', 'visionaries' and 'pragmatists.'

How do you know which is which?

Easy: the boss should be a technical expert, as well as the most demanding user of the product. Such a boss will know when technical decisions are being made rationally and when they are being made for political reasons -- and thus evaluate whether a complaint comes from someone who sees themselves as a victim, or someone who sees something beneficial getting axed.

Such a boss will be able to recognize an earnest and appropriate expression of a compelling, competing vision, and differentiate it from a lack of buy-in. Why? Because he knows the technologies in question, and because he knows that "buy-in" always risks turning into a mindless "lock-in", and so it's useful to have contrarians on your team.

But, hey -- I'm preaching to the choir on HN. And I'd say there is some evidence that leadership is increasingly technical and expert in companies that are winning.

These kinds of decisions are always hard.

For non-technical people, making decisions about technical people, I have a suspicion that they'd do as well throwing darts at a board for all but the most blatant cases of personality misfit.

I've been in situations where the person who created the most value for his company was all three of those things: 'victim', 'non-believer' and 'knowitall'. All they cared about was the product, and it turns out that's the thing you want them to care about.
Quantum Man goes into a bit of detail about this matter
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/quantum-man-lawrence-m-kraus...

Dirac was a very bright, but logically bound person. His decisions, right down to his marriage, were based on logic. If you've ever seen "The Big Bang Theory" think of Sheldon. Feynmann, on the other hand, had both the logical abilities of Dirac and the sociable abilities that made him capable of interaction outside his narrow discipline. That is what he meant by "extremely normal in all aspects".

When you get into people who are extremely skiled in something it's often the case they do so at the expense of everything else. This tends to create an eccentric attitude that doesn't transcend social circles.
The main draw is that it's multi-platform. Added bonuses include very limited setup and no worries about needing to start the app once it's installed.
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Yep, a regular login is planned. Also looking into adding in browser calls. Just wanted to get it out of the door quick.
It sounds like you're a talented engineer who's comfortable working on the technical side of the house. If that's true, the biggest challenge you're likely to face is managerial.

Being CTO in an agile environment is about managing the technology roadmap and making sure the technical team is shipping code as efficiently as possible.

Your first goal should be fostering the creation of lightweight engineering processes that allow your team to operate without procedural roadblocks.

Resist the temptation to "superman" your way through technical problems that could be delegated to slower team members. The CTO needs to remain focused on the big picture.

I'd recommend 2 books:

The E-Myth - which talks about how most small business (especially true of software companies) are started by "technicians" who must balance that trait with being an entrepreneur and a manager. I found it helpful for my transition.

Now, Discovery Your Strengths - discusses how important it is to identify and play to the strengths in your employees and co-workers -- rather than trying to fix their weaknesses, which is a losing battle.

Best of luck. With the open and humble attitude you're displaying, I'm sure you'll do great!
Really? Why should you be able to reverse engineer Apple products? What makes you think you're entitled to the source of this company's products?

None of us should feel entitled to be able to hack and reverse engineer anything! If a cdeveloper or company is nice enough to open source something then that's awesome! If you don't like proprietary software then don't buy it. If you want to hack something, make it from scratch or find an open source base for it.

If I run a software company and I'm making something folks really enjoy and get a lot of use from then I'm entitled to charge for it! They're paying me because I did the hard work to develop a tool they find useful and don't have the time, energy, and often times skill to make themselves. If I let anyone reverse engineer it and see the source then someone like you will go ahead and clone it and now my product is worthless. If I lock my customers into a particular toolset and software environment, the reason is twofold. I want to make some money! And that lock in provides a better experience for my customers. I'm not hiding it and no one is forced to buy my products. But they do because it's the best option for their needs.

Open source is great, free software is almost like a cult. What's so bad about making a profit? Why should programmers give away source free but CocaCola is free to keep their secret recipe?do programmers lack the need for food, shelter, and the money to acquire those things?

And the only war in mobile is between companies. There's also this silly war of ideas between the "open" Android platform and iOS. But the real winner is the consumer. There will always be competition. iOS cannot get 100% market share. So consumers have a choice. If the current choices don't suit certain people who want more "freedom" then you're free to start your own mobile platform and build a business around it. And when that happens I wonder if your current attitude toward wanting everything free will still hold. The only freedom afforded by the FOSS movement is the freedom to work your ass off on a piece of software and subsequently starve for lack of income. The FOSS belief that ALL software should free and open source makes it an extremist view. There is a place for both free and proprietary technology in our world. Most of us have to eat and we don't own a farm to grow our own.

I'm reminded of the naive thinking of a teenager whenever I hear rhetoric like this. This ain't no hippie commune.
Physical Chemistry by Levine. It has given me an amazing theoretical and quantitative grasp for thermodynamics, aqueous systems, etc. It's incredibly easy to understand if you've had general chemistry and diff eq. It's my best textbook this semester.

It gets into quantum and statistical mechanics, but I haven't made it that far yet.
His father was a MIL contractor, maybe it was uniforms -- or whatever that was a cover for (ie. not limbs).

Feynman's starring was high on the agenda for the then-authorities: he was basically the first (and only?) successful physicist "born and bred" in the USA, not being a self-proclaiming (or immigrant) Jew.
The shallowness and laziness of Isaacson's research is quite staggering. John Siracusa pointed out on Hypercritical this week that Isaacon had a lot of information when there were sources he could borrow them from, but there's no depth from his return to Apple onwards -- because there was nothing already out there for Isaacson to reuse.

For those who want a lot of clear examples of the issues nirvana is highlighting, do yourself a favor and listen to this week's episode ("The Wrong Guy", http://5by5.tv/hypercritical), as well as the upcoming bonus episode.
No, I disagree - and I'm black. He's right. The image portrayed of blacks (by everyone - including many blacks that have "made it") is that we are artsy folks who "do" music and play sports. As a result, people often don't intuitively consider blacks when they think of professions and otherwise intellectual activities.

In fact, the only reason most people are going to even click on this link is because they are amazed to see "3 black guys playing chess" ... whoaaa! The simple fact that people are surprised and curious to see "how they got interested in chess" is proof enough that "The image of African people usually vastly misrepresents their true potential".
The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy (Dave Madden)

Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty (David Kadavy)
It's actually also used by WhatsApp, only not in a way that suggests they will ever open up their service for federation (and why would they?).

So yeah, XMPP is part of the solution, but not if it's used in a closed off proprietary way.
Yeah i get you, negativity can be infectious. But like i said, some bosses can deal with it well, some can't, but either way...firing people because of it is a silly solution.
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That's a whole lot of waffle extrapolated from Portland's food carts (which are great, btw) and handmade wallets.