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Yes, it's a rare day (but happens once a month) where I will step away from the computer and say, I'm digging myself into a hole and I should not code any more without a plan for how this will fit with the rest of the system, a plan for better abstractions, or a plan for testing, or whatever.

But that is because I spend a lot of time when not coding, thinking about these things, so the path forward is clear. And that higher-level planning usually happens informally, all the time, away from work.
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For one I believe that Germans know what they're doing. They might be a little bit too bent on saving Framany's banks - however if these banks drop then Framany drops. If that happens Eurozone has no steering wheel and no engine to get anywhere.

So in fact it is essential that in eurozone:

1. Germany and France be saved from the worst.
2. Germany and France beat the other juvenile countries into fiscal submission.
3. The new "germanized" europe lifts itself out of ash.

Whatever people think, the whole point of eurozone is "germanization" of Europe. It's not as some people state that Germany is trying to occupy the Europe. The fact is that Europe wants to occupy Germany. Thats the whole point, the whole Europe and its citizenry would like to live in Germany.

And Germans know full well what they're doing - I'd even dare to say that they know what they're doing even better than 'mericans. Don't forget that Germany annexed DDR 20 years ago and that DDR was in much worse shape than any of PIIGS. Alo Angela Merkl along with many people in charge, grew up in DDR.
As one that has read the book, thank you for giving some perspective on Isaacson's view.

Still, it nerves me a lot that you think you know when one should hang on Hacker news. This place is full of interesting technological reads; should I stop coming here because of how I think of Steve Jobs or startups or free market in general. I don't think so.
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I did something similar to this. I recently got back from a 6 week holiday—and I just marked all my emails as read. Easy!
Sadly most edges seem to be rather one-way - otherwise it might have been a fun exercise to cancel everything out.
Man looked at PHP after C# and was happy with that. I feel suspicious.
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Mine did crash one or two times, when I used it to read PDFs.
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This isn't helpful. You get what you successfully negotiate, but before entering the process, it helps to have expectations for what the "market" value is, within ~$20,000.
NYTimes's Data Points published an updated interactive info graphic, which also contains Germany, Japan, the U.S. and the U.K.: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/10/23/sunday-review/....

The print version contains the above mentioned countries and speculation on China as well: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/10/22/opinion/2011102....

Edit: Data is from statistics released October 20, 2011.
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Interesting idea, but I highly dislike it.

The entire point of email is that it is the "leave a message and I'll get back to you" mode of communication for the Internet. It is not the "respond right now" mode - that is what IM and chat rooms and other real-time communications are.

I have things to do too, you know, and keeping track of someone else's schedule in order to be able to send them an email isn't on the list. The whole point of email is that I can send on my schedule, and you can read it on yours. Now you're taking that away from me and forcing me onto your schedule.

All one needs to do is put a vacation autoresponder on their email account, and then have the self-control to not read email while they're out.
First of all, congrats for polarizing crowds. :)

This can be a good way to increase your Twitter account visibility and hope to gain some followers through this site.

Right now, the bids are low but if this idea sustainable or not needs to be seen. You can hope to make it big if businesses find it a good way to advertise and promote products and product launches.
Alot of these people will return home (all over Europe plus Turkey) once in the future, and they will bring home with them - piles of saved Euros, German working ethics and loads of knowledge.

These people will become centres of new productive hubs, where there has be nothing of the sort thus far.

It is just globalisation on smaller scale. Europe is trying hard to integrate and mix all the countries and cultures in Europe to the level that would make warfare between their citizens too costly to anyone.
I don't care what Steve Jobs' personality is like... or Larry or Sergey's, or Hans Reiser's or Linus Torvalds'.

If a product is well-engineered I can respect the narrow aspect of the engineer's brilliance, which is enough. The rest is silly to waste time on.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
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It however would be odd for GET requests to contain anti-CSRF token. In such case, users cannot pass any links that have any parameters and the session-specific token to others. This seems completely defeat the purpose of GET requests.
I just sent him an email alerting him to this thread and asking for the results. Let's see if he responds.
Priority inbox works wonderfully for me. I practically never check anything other than priority inbox anymore.

The way it deals with your scenario of meeting somebody new and then getting an email from them is that any email sent directly to you from a new person is marked as important.

The way it deals with your second scenario is machine learning. Everyone's priority inbox behaves differently depending on how you train it.
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The Service Level Agreement (SLA) discussion puts penalties and compensations on the table. Can we say that the compensation method the customer expects is the same as the Software as a Service (SaaS) vendor's SLA provides?

A while ago, I experienced issues while starting up a specific instance on Amazon AWS cloud. I’m still not sure why, but the instance entered an endless restart loop. All the application deployment work (installation and configuration of a service) we did on it for about two weeks just went down the drain. Discussion with the Amazon AWS support team ended with an escalation of the support request to their head of support.
I wouldn't say I "idolize" Jobs after reading the biography, but I still consider him a hero. His arrogance and narcissism is justified in the end; an inflated self-image is unbecoming in someone mediocre, but Jobs really was a special and important person. Still, Jobs never seemed outright grandiose, as he often acknowledged his own flaws and appreciated people who stood up for him. His other flaws, while he could certainly do without some of them, do seem to tie into his greatest strengths. And his heroic qualities greatly outweigh everything else. He was never physically violent, never even seemed to cheat on his wife, and aside from the Breakout incident, never outright screwed anyone out of money.

There's a line between mean and immoral, and Steve stayed on the better side of that line a lot more than a lot of other people who get idolized with far less question. I'm not even talking about people who are unfairly idolized, like Edison or Mother Theresa or the Dalai Lama. I'm talking about people like JFK or Martin Luther King or Winston Churchill, genuinely heroic figures who cheated on their wives or killed innocent people.
I think that's right - it has to be fun. There might be not-so-fun parts in every project - but overall, it has to be fun. Thanks for positive feedback.
Apple has always been circumspect about identifying any of their employees below the Senior VP level because they don't want any of them poached. And even their senior VPs get poached.
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there were 18 attempted suicides

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides

those suicides were still associated with work conditions at foxconn, regardless of whether the suicide is higher in the general population.
Given that it's not entirely one-way why can't it be partially cancelled out? Sure it wouldn't go the distance but why is that step not made?
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profligately, Germany is asked to bail them out yet again...and the Germans are the bad guys?

I couldn't understand the worldview of the Greeks, but now I realize that the grasshopper -- by its very nature -- hates the ant and always thinks he cheated.
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I am just wondering what your experiences have been using cloud services for your business. There are a lot of posts about the services people use (subscription billing, help desks, project management etc), but I am wondering if you regret not having control yourself.

Reasons for not using so many services is that you can fix it when there is a problem, you have full control to change and maintain it as needed.

Do you use these services? are you happy with the choice? have you brought them in house when you could afford to?
Here's a nice write-up of an attempt at the comp.compression challenge.

(http://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.htm)

EDIT:

(http://www.maximumcompression.com/compression_fun.php)

> Does there exist a file which is extremely compressable by one archiver, but almost incompressable by another one?. I thought the answer was no, but Nimda Admin did sent me a file with these very strange properties. Please download and extract the rarred file strange.rar and try to compress it with (win)rar and (win)zip. You will see compression is RAR is extremely good, but compression in ZIP is almost 0%!. Just when you think you understand compression, someone sends you this file. Thanks Nimda :-)
What about those who just scan the email subject and only read those that matter? Heck that is what I do even when I am not coming home from a holiday.
> Requiring cause to fire someone is business-hostile at best

Generally, in countries which require reasons for dismissal, there is a distinction between a redundancy and a dismissal. A redundancy means that the position someone is working in is declared not to exist (and so no one will be hired to replace the redundant employee), while a dismissal means the position continues but the employment of the employee filling that position is ended by the company.

Changing the size of a workforce to "improve efficiency, pivot, or generally adapt to changing markets" is done through redundancies, not through dismissals, and redundancies can generally happen on whatever terms are agreed to in the employment agreement.

If an employee genuinely isn't working out in a no-fire-at-will country, the employee generally has to be treated fairly and given an opportunity to correct the problems, but they can still be dismissed if they are unable to rectify the problems.

The cost of a dismissal might be slightly higher in a non-fire-at-will company, due to the time period when the employee is given a chance to correct the problems, but not significantly, and businesses can still adapt to changing conditions through redundancies. Non-fire-at-will is therefore not a significant barrier to business.

However, it protects employees against abusive practices like those of Zynga in this instance - employees who do not have anything like the same bargaining power as the companies they are working for.
Oh, wow, I got quite a bit of downvotes for simply stating a fact: the Eurozone has been around since 1999, and 11 states of the EU were founding members. Germany and France were among them, sure enough, but they weren's the only ones.
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this just tells the adversary that "a message could be there". Given that information, they still need to find out which bytes are information-carrying

This is true as far as it goes. It should be noted, however, that in many threat models for steganography, this problem is solved through rubber-hose cryptanalysis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis
I had worked for a company that spent 1 million dollars to make a J2ME game. It never even came out.
> The whole point of email is that I can send on my schedule, and you can read it on yours.

A major cause of email overload is that senders don't respect the "you can read it on yours" part of that statement. Instead, they send emails requesting info that they need to act on within a specific window of time (usually hours or days). This implicitly assigns recipients a time limit, because responding too late would be considered rude. If you're receiving 500+ emails a day that expect a prompt response, you don't stand a chance.

Communication works both ways. If you can't be bothered to take my schedule into account, then don't contact me. Complaining about this is akin to complaining about someone having a secretary.
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Be careful about generalizing "Android".

The latest open source version of Android was released in December 2010.

Many Android phones cannot be rooted without exploits.
Posted on April 11th, 2011 and it also happens to be the last post in the blog. Perhaps deleting all inbound emails is that life altering :)
The hand-wavey text in the top-left explains that "Banks and governments in these five shaky economies owe each other many billions of euros."

So while it does look like "Greece owes Ireland $8.5bn" is at least partially cancelled out by "Ireland owes Greece $0.8bn", I would expect that these statements roughly translate to "The Greek government owes various Irish banks $8.5bn" and "The Irish government owes various Greek banks $0.8bn", which unfortunately don't cancel each other out.
Just to note that those studies that suggest some alcohol is good for you are observational, and they conflate two different kinds of non-drinkers:

1) those who do not drink for personal reasons
2) former alcoholics.

Its quite plausible that the poor health of recovering alcoholics is responsible for the differences in observed health seen in these studies.

I agree with the rest of your post.
> The world needs more people like him: true leaders who will stand up for their convictions, no matter what the cost.

The true costs of these peoples' behavior is never on themselves.
Hehe, yeah, it would have been more logical to only keep the messages that DON'T have the urgent-subject :P

Is there a standard convention for "keep-as-later-reference"-subject?
I've never seen Ocaml come even close to C in micro-benchmarks but in large applications it can win on macro-optimisations eg Deens is significantly faster than BIND with much less code (www.utdallas.edu/~hamlen/Slides/Melange.pdf)
Politicians live in the public eye, in a way different from celebrities (be they pop stars or CEOs). They are, in a sense, obligated to grant interviews and be open to the hard questions, because a politician is selling him or her SELF.

A pop artists sells music, a company sells a product or a service. I'm not predicating my use of facebook based on whether or not Mark Zuckerberg did pot in college or got blowjobs from his secretaries.

So when you interview someone who isn't selling themselves, you don't have the freedom to ask those kinds of questions. Unless maybe you don't that person to ever grant you or your magazine an interview ever again.
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I should note that Sweden has its own (floating) currency, making Estonia the only Euro-zone country running a surplus.
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Same for me. Not that I never sit back to think of the bigger picture, but I've learned to think at multiple levels at once, so I can think of the higher level design while writing code / comments.

I'm usually a bit wary about planning without thinking of the code level because it can quickly result in architecture-astronaut plans which take a lot of decisions prematurely.
> There is no incentive to favour the long term. The sale is made now or not at all.

As a Tech Recruiter I completely disagree. Granted a significant proportion of the recruiter community tend to favour the short term gain but ultimately the only way to succeed in the industry is to cultivate long term relationships and generate repeat business.
Says the Boy in the Bubble right in the article:

IBM didn't survive the PC, none of the PC guys survived the web, and I don't think any of the web guys will survive the post-PC world

So he didn't say post-PC devices won't access the web (and actually, neither did I) but that web apps today will not survive. That was the point of my question.
Good question. On one hand, my mobile plan is expensive. On the other hand, its damn useful.

But I fail to see how this relates to what I said.

I can still browse the web on my mobile device/tablet.
The web is very much not in danger of being replaced by native "post-pc" device apps.
Zynga's gonna be a perfect shorting opportunity it seems. Thanks for the news and free money Zynga!
Anyone that picky about a Flash video would know perfectly well that an "official website" is the last, least useful place to look for information on a topic.
Wow. That post was just all types of awful in so many different ways.
Best way to manage contacts and build a "living" network for my young career? 
I've been attending numerous conferences, collecting business cards, learning about peoples new and old businesses, and there are often overlaps. I've met lawyers looking for startups, startups looking for lawyers, and etc.

What is the best way for me to save this data and make my own connections between these people?

Google contacts is overflowed with all my contacts and the "excel style" listing isnt very cooperative with pointing out relevant information. LinkedIn requires they accept my invitation.

I signed up for 37signal's Highrise, and it looks good and could work great if i go into consulting.

My "ideal" solution would allow me to enter in a new contact from their business card (maybe even scan the business card), keep and save notes, and also allow me to enter their twitter/facebook/linkedin accounts and view updates on the site as well. I'd like a field for: "Looking for"

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Isn't the bigger problem that he gets about 5,000 emails in the first place? Maybe he was exadurting but I'm sure he gets more than his fair share and that's too much while on vacation but I bet he gets too much email while on the clock too.

I think he need an overall change in how many people email him and how he handles email while not on vacation as well as vacation. Deleting emails seems like a short term solution.
> If it was a real issue someone would have packaged up GCC or LLVM

https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer
I like to believe the motivation is not because of competitin, jealousy or holding a grudge, but because of a deliberate strategy to raise the stakes of the game and getting others, that should be concerned but aren't, involved when different companies can make a stand together, to change something that someone strongly believes is wrong.

Of course, you may disagree that it is worth the cost, but I don't feel there's any need to assume malicious intent.
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Sadly this doesn't work whilst on a plane.
As a Tech Recruiter and former Developer I've been first-hand witness to the incredible hypocrisy and mind-boggling anti-logic perpetrated by the recruitment industry and I've attempted to answer your question at length in my blog post 'All that's wrong with the recruitment industry' http://voltsteve.blogspot.com/2011/07/all-that-is-wrong-with...

Someone in the comments below mentioned how they don't feel that the recruitment industry can be disrupted whereas I completely disagree. The industry is already suffering and multiple different factors are playing a part. As PG mentioned in a recent comment on a similar post, more and more companies are investing in building internal recruitment teams.

For the record, I agree that most tech recruiters suck. Even if you find a decent one, chances are they work for an organisation that imparts a vast amount of KPI's and compliance issues that generally restrict their capabilities and creativity.
I interviewed for a job as a recruiter once (what can i say, I was desperate). Anyway, during the interview, the recruiter told me that they get hired so that the company can select specific kinds of candidates (national, football player etc). In essence, recruiters can allow companies to discriminate against minorities or whatever without having legal problems. This probably doesn't apply in the tech field but it may be why big companies still use them.
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Would the basic salesforce "contact management service" be right for me? Any other recommendations?
Thats the whole point, the whole Europe and its citizenry would like to live in Germany

That couldn't be further from the truth. One of Europe's fundamental problems, actually, is each country's profound dislike for one another.

Immigration levels among the developed countries in the EU, which are shockingly low despite there being no actual barriers to transit, demonstrate this. This translates to a lack of cooperation and leadership, which many europeans agree is the true cause of all this trouble.
Don't be naive. Without either of them actively promoting and wanting it, there wouldn't have been a Eurozone. Any other country could have dropped out, but neither of these.