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In a normal situation, they wouldn't necessarily have to go bankrupt. If they had a national lender of last resort, they could essentially monetize the debt, causing inflation, and pay their way out with their devalued currency.

The Greek economy is not fundamentally different than it was when it was accepted into the EU. France and Germany knew that then and know it now. They just want to have their cake and eat it too. They loaned money to a country that had little hope of paying it back. It's fun to say "it's all the debtor's fault" but there are two sides to every debt relationship and in this case, as much fault lies with France and Germany as it does with Greece.

Also, Iceland didn't go through the forced austerity that is being pushed upon the Greeks. The Icelandic government essentially defaulted when it nationalized the banks. There was no "We'll give you a bailout if you crush your economy through austerity programs" from the EU because Iceland is not an EU country.

Austerity only stops the bleeding to foreign creditors at the expense of the country's citizens. It does not stop the bleeding internally in the local economy. The Greek population knows this and that's why they are strongly resisting.
LMAO, do you think this is bad in all situations? If I am working for a client I use whatever their preferred methodology is. I really only do this when I am doing things for fun on my own.
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I fully agree that if Greece had its own currency, devaluation would be a viable solution, but it doesn't, so there's no point talking about it.

Government spending isn't "bleeding"; economies are feedback systems, and changes to spending in one location directly reduces income in other areas, which results in lost productivity until the system readjusts. Adjusting the system when productivity is already low is one of the worst times to do it, because there's very little to take up the slack.

On the other hand, Greece probably needed a crisis like this in order for it to face up to its governance problems.

I don't know why you quoted "don't know better"; I didn't say that, nor anything like it, as far as I understand. Iceland is not very relevant, again, since it had its own currency; in sudden devaluation, it reduced the value of monetary wealth of its citizens massively. You could view it has a massive government appropriation of citizen assets.
I have to be honest, I really just don't agree. I use Mac OS X Snow Leopard (I'd upgrade to Lion, but it's not a priority right now). I can see why things like the windows not maximizing, etc. would be annoying. Here's a perspective, though:

1. That issue of windows not resizing is generally a complaint made by native Windows users who are already used to that property. I'm not saying this makes it an invalid complaint, just putting it in context.

2. Compared with Linux, Mac OS X has more support (this doesn't mean it's superior). Compared with Windows, Mac OS X (at least in my experience) is more sensitive to power users and coders, and people who know what they're doing more. Now, I've used different distributions of Linux, and ideally, I love Linux most. But it just doesn't have as much support as Mac OS X because proprietary backing breeds rapid progress (in the sense of universal or near universal support at least). Sometimes you have to fork your own solution when you're confronted with a problem in Linux. This also happens in OS X, but often times, there's more trouble shooting advice or solutions freely available and accessible. Just a perspective.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/05/europes_ec... > Debt > Budget Balance

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"Sounds like full-on Narcissistic Personality Disorder."

And/Or some OCD and some kind of autistic spectrum disorder, combined with early success which probably encouraged or reinforced some things that a regular person would have to learn to avoid doing.
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Sleep has trouble with USB drives; sleep will just disconnect them uncleanly. Data loss and corrupt discs is not a feature of something that I would call "works fine".

There are other problems with sleep, but that's the most obvious.
Every country that issues government bonds has some amount of debt. For some countries (most notably Russia) the total debt issued is a tiny fraction of their GDP.

edit: The surplus/deficit is the first derivative of the debt. Whether a country runs a surplus or a deficit changes from year to year.
There is probably more work to do out the box to change this perception though. OSX needs to introduce the user to this when they first open an app then make it dead simple to control.
He could have done that without screwing over Wozniak. He could have been a perfectionist without acting petulant.
I know a lot of people who are more familiar with Mac than Windows and still don't know what that button does and simply ignores it. Along with the other small oval button that's there in pre-Lion.
Wait, if they get 20k per candidate hired, and the turnover is 90 days, what kind of schlock does go back to them? And what kind does not sure them when its obvious the candidate did not have any of the advertised qualifications?
You know there is going to be at least one person who will reply back with "URGENT" even though it's something simple like where do I download that ebook. Don't be that guy.
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Many people have lung cancer even if they don't smoke, and many also died old without lung cancer despite smoking all day.
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I see; unemployment is indeed better than immigration, especially from Muslim countries. Anything would be better than that.

(Did I misread you? What you write seems rather xenophobic besides being somewhat economically illiterate. From a strict economic point of view, there is no surplus of jobs. The price of labour should rise until the demand for labour abates; and the German workers would be better off. To the degree that that isn't happening (though Germany's population overall is decreasing, not increasing), it is because Germany has an open economy with free movement of labour. If you're attacking that, you're attacking the whole foundation of the EU, and I don't want much more to do with you.)
I'm not sure how to respond.

This thread is full of people saying that Macs can be frustrating because they don't do certain things.

It's also full of people saying that those things are possible, and showing how.

And there are also people saying that not being able to do those things is why the Mac experience is so clean and simple.

It would be really refreshing if people just accepted that all OSs suck, and that some (not all!) of the stuff mentioned in this thread is sucky. (It'd also be great if people would stop ranting quite so hard about OS suckage, unless they're right. Yelling about some missing feature, only to be told that it's in the obvious preference pane, is just daft.)
I really like the "will work on interesting projects" idea, I feel the same way generally myself.

Kind of surprised there's so much "do something besides this" feedback in the comments here, I can't see why this isn't an awesome way to find projects?

There's some amazing ideas out there that people have, why not tap into that gigantic resource pool a little deeper, eh?
Quoted from Lyle McDonald, one of the most respected individuals on the topics of exercise, diet, and nutrition :

Q: Does adding muscle burn more calories?

A: "Some of this also comes from the still gross misconception that ‘muscle burns a ton of calories’ (a myth I took apart in Dissecting the Energy Needs of the Body – Research Review). That is, they hope to jack up metabolic rate by increasing muscle mass. Which is a futile activity because the effect is minimal (on top of the fact that the obese are already carrying extra muscle mass). A pound of muscle burns about 6 calories at rest, you have to add a ton to impact on metabolic rate (see also the next issue I discuss, low metabolic rate isn’t a problem). And that takes a lot of time, time better spent focusing on active fat loss."

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http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/research-review/dissecting-...
For all the talk about email overload, I'm surprised more people don't do stuff like this. It's simple and effective.

Instead, everyone wants an AI solution that automatically separates the important from the fluff. I hate to be a pessimist, but I'm doubtful we'll produce a notable success in this area any time soon, if ever. Priority Inbox certainly isn't it. I spent so much time double-checking its often-wrong results that it made more sense to just stop relying on it.

The unfortunate fact is that the concept of "importance" is vague at best. It differs from person to person, email to email. In many cases, the data that makes an email important can't be found in the inbox at all, and only exists in the real world. If I just met some guy in the hall, and promised that I'd respond to his next email, how will your program take that into account? What about online bank statements, which I normally delete instantly, but which can sometimes be helpful in reminding me to check my account? What about a Facebook message from a girl I find cute vs all the other Facebook messages?

Even humans have a hard time determining the importance of other people's email. Here's a fun experiment: Go through your last 100 emails and write done which ones were important to you. Now have a friend go through the same emails and try to predict which ones you thought were important. You may be surprised at the difference.
Yes, in the current system if you inject enough money you're virtually certain to receive a patent. Otherwise you wouldn't play again...

But, there's no guarantee of reward. Far from it, you've only got a letter of marque, not the ship or crew to profit from it with.

In a reward system it'd be totally different. No applications, no licenses, just instant wide disclosure. If you don't tell people they can't use it and you won't get rewarded.

And you could just document and teach someone else's invention and get rewards that way, in proportion to the value of the accessibility you added.
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Your point makes sense when talking about developing software, however the article is in reference to planning a restaurant website for a client.

Try implementing an agile strategy with a sushi restaurant owner, or for that matter an attorney, dermatologist, or chiropractor. That would be a laugh.

B2B web design services struggle with showing tangible deliverables, a waterfall approach is the best way to keep the client satisfied and scope within your spec.
It's interesting how people attack Apple by championing the freedom to make things, and then continue to attack Apple for the way they make things.

Speaking very broadly, Apple aren't hackers, they're artists. Michaelangelo's intention wasn't to let the Pope knock himself out altering the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

And if you really do want to alter an iPhone--well, you can. It's not designed to be easy, but there's no real legal or physical barrier to you doing so. To most cell phone users, Android's openness doesn't mean they have freedom to change the software on their phones--their carriers lock it down for them. It only means that they get a shittier phone, thanks to those very same carriers and their ability to bundle crapware.
You do a nice job of explaining it, and I am grateful to you. Now that you lay it out it does seem a lot more consistent than I thought.

My only minor gripe (and this is cross OS, with many softwares and keyboards) is that it's harder for touch typists to use. Compare any shortcuts that require you to take your hands from the home keys with, eg, the shortcuts provided by Wordstar.
What do you miss from Linux that is not available on OSX? MacPorts fills in the gaps for missing GNU tools.
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What you successfully negotiate.

I don't mean to be flip, but internalizing the truth of that answer is really a life skill.
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My apologies, you're right. It's Arkham Asylum.
you have to know all the players

I might suggest cough having the players know you. There's a famous line in Chicago politics: "Don't be sent by nobody" (An apocryphal applicant, on asking for a job at a local politician's office, was asked "Who sent you?" "Nobody." "Kid, one piece of advice: don't be sent by nobody.")
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I have never been able to build a mental model of Applescript sufficient to allow me to work with it. For example, when trying to script the Terminal application, this works:

set current settings of first tab of first window to first settings set

this does not:

set first_set to first settings set
set current settings of first tab of first window to first_set

but this does:

set first_set to a reference to first settings set
set current settings of first tab of first window to first_set

Or suppose you have a tab ("get first tab of first window"). You want the container of that, so you try to apply the obvious "container of" to the tab. Nope.

Nearly every attempt I've made to use Applescript has ended in frustration when something that every book I've found tells me should work nearly everywhere does not work in the specific application I'm trying to script, and either I can't figure out a work around, or I eventually come up with something I don't understand like my first example above of referencing terminal settings.
The item set a record for a photo, not a painting. gcb may have seen a crappier item, a painting, sold for more than this item, a photo.
This is so true. I have a work-issued laptop running Linux on mainstream hardware. Sleeping or hibernating my laptop fails to sleep about 10% of the time. Waking my laptop has a 90% chance of failing to detect my external monitor, yet the window manager happily continues to display my login screen and application windows off screen where the external monitor should be.
> Modest proposal: The U.S. needs a Manhattan Project for weed/coke/heroin poppy production. Legality of demand isn't required; production just needs to completely undercut the market value of weed/heroin currently imported to the U.S. (or exported from Afghanistan, for example).

> Beats subsidizing corn for ethanol, at least.

I'm a bit confused by this. Are you suggesting the US produce "weed/coke/heroin poppy" to undercut the cartels? And somehow distribute the manufactured product to users? I've got no problem agreeing with your ethanol joke... but just to be sure, you think the US should produce and distribute drugs, including heroin and cocaine, which are highly, highly addictive?
I think it's interesting to see the ways the predictions had some right in them.

- What doesn't run on Amazon these days?

- WoW is as profitable as ever.

- Mobile has gone through the roof (what percent of your traffic is mobile, eh?)

- Internet video has gone mainstream (I used have normal friends who would pay for cable, not anymore.)

- I'd forgotten there was a time when google didn't alter my search results for me specifically.

- And of course, China is taking over the web http://mashable.com/2011/10/18/mary-meeker-internet-trends-2...

Fun stuff.
I think you completely missed my point. I am simply pointing out prompt()is provided by Apple just like alert() provided by JS itself.

Before coming to a conclusion that you can point to and say someone is wrong, please understand that not everyone here is a master of English.
Yes but K&R is a classic. Its clear style paved the way for programming books ever since. You are correct that the standards have evolved over time but remember the employer in the discussion doesn't need a C programmer, they need a .NET developer. This dude will probably never write a single line of C. Spolsky recommends K&R because it's a good test and it teaches a methodology that serves a student well in .NET. And it's only 228 pages.
I asked this of an old boss of mine who cashed out perfectly fine and then raised money for his next business. It's not just about money - having people like Sequoia Capital on your team is more valuable than the money.
Why is it that political journalists are critical, trying to turn every stone, and business/financial journalists treat their subjects with softer gloves than a teen mag does Rihanna?

If there's one person in the Valley who you can ask difficult questions, it's Bill Nguyen. Instead, the author asks him about whether his wife likes the house on Maui.
I was reading the article and the list of three letter acronyms such as WPF, WWF, WCF, and realizing we should just group these together under the name Windows Technology Frameworks or WTF.....

On the other hand, the article brought back a lot of thoughts on projects gone right and wrong. Very insightful and informative. In the end though, I have learned one thing that was reinforced by this article: if it ain't fun, it ain't worth it.

Let's face it: that which inspires us is fun. And when we are inspired, even the largest problems are overcome, but when we lack that inspiration and the fun that comes with it, it's not only drag, but little problems become impossible to solve.
Seeing that this experiment was run in April 2011, I sure would like to see a follow up on how it turned out.
Thanks for the clear explanation of the rationale.
I'm a US expat in Brazil and here people from the shanty towns name their kids Michael Jackson, George Washington, etc...except they're spelled and pronounced according to Brazilian Portuguese rules. Ex, "MJ" is pronounced something like "Mikeuw Jeksó". Another is Wallace which becomes "Uallacy" when pronounced.

There's a Peruvian film called Madeinusa (Mad-in-ewsa) about a girl of the same name, all because her mother found it on the back of a t-shirt and thought it was a good "American" name.
I completely agree. I can't believe that Lion does not have an "all-windows" Expose. It's annoying trying to find a hidden window by minimizing everything.

If someone knows how to toggle between an applications windows, please let me know.
Loved the idea _until_ that 'urgent' loophole.

I'd have gone the whole way here, there's no (real..) reason for 'urgent' mails during vacation.
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You just answered your own question. People who understand very much about developers and the types of developers for specific roles are the requirements of a good technical manager.

A recruiter who's very good with technology and who can program is better off being a developer financially.

A recruiter who's very good with people and navigating the intricacies of a project is better off financially being an internal HR manager or project manager.
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Did AS1 have closures? I was under the impression that it didn't, which makes it a very different language from JavaScript, even if the syntax looks similar.
I can't say I've seen any seminars that were quite so specific (plenty of conferences, though!), but now that you mention it I have seen a few built around someone's work in progress. Those were, as a rule, amazing experiences, with the caveat that the topic was still broad enough that everyone involved could carve out their own path.

I'd probably favor a more Deleuzian vocabulary myself, but it'd be interesting to see where someone who ran with your ideas ended up regardless.
prompt() is a built in JavaScript function just like alert(). It isn't Apple specific, that's my point.
I would like to know what percentage of people that set up the standard vacation message ("on vacation, getting back on this day, for emergency contact Jane") DO delete messages they get on vacation, and what percentage read them but perhaps when they get back from vacation.
Spot on.

There was barely an indie developer scene for mobile before the iphone.
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While in normal discourse "misogynist" means "someone who hates women and/or girls", in formal academic feminism a misogynist is someone who disagrees with the feminist dogma. It's not difficult to spot third-wave feminists: usually by the time someone uses jargon like "cis-gendered" (which is Women's Studies for "doesn't suffer from gender identity disorder") you're well above 90% odds that you're dealing with some type of left-wing identity politics wonk. Interestingly, "misogynist" itself is a high-probability marker as well. It would be interesting to run a Bayesian classifier and find out what the observed probabilities actually are....
We've never found recruiters useful. Perhaps it was the fact that most of the positions they recruited for were for large companies, and their candidate pool reflected that. Once however, when we were truly desperate, we tried to work with one agency.

I said right away that the only way this would work would be based on a success fee, and they accepted that. Also, I demanded that they send me a sample of anonymized CVs before we signed anything. So a couple of hours later they send me these three CVs, and when I looked at them, I immediately recognized the candidates (it's a small world, isn't it?).

The next step was to call the candidates and ask them if they're were really looking for a job. Turns out not one knew anything about the company in question and none of them were interested in switching jobs.
A very well written comment. This is a prime example of how we should be communicating on HN. It gets the point across without being confrontational
The question is, how harshly do you judge Steve Jobs for not being nice, and how harshly do you judge mediocre but nice people for not reshaping a half dozen different industries in a single lifetime?
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The two games also combined today for more players than MW3 Multiplayer (likely the long term predominant portion of it), and since I'm assuming Skyrim numbers will eventually die down, it's often still the most played game on Steam.
the problem with externalities is that the people who don't pay their costs have little incentive not to simply leave them off the books.
Or I don't know, you could just infect yourself with some nasty disease. Sick people tend to lose weight, too.

Just saying that weight loss in itself is not necessarily saying much.
I'd automatically blacklist them. I'm sure people who have no respect will not send any good future emails.
And if you did that, you'd probably lose weight, too :-)