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There has been a lot of talk around here recently about "work while traveling", etc. So I thought some HNers would be interested in my latest project:

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Introducing WikiOverland.org, the encyclopedia of Overland Travel (For everyone that's dreamed of traveling Overland with a car/4x4/motorbike)

First of all - Yes, you can drive around the entire world with your own 4x4 or motorbike.

If you are traveling with a vehicle across a couple of countries, a continent, or the entire world,
http://wikioverland.org contains everything you need to know to successfully get around.

Some of the important topics covered for each country are:

* Crossing the border - paperwork requirements, insurance requirements, costs and permitted length of stay.

* Gas prices, quality and frequency. Prices are converted in real time to any currency and unit you prefer.

* Roads, Bribery and checkpoints.

* Camping - both paying and "wild".

* Navigation - with paper maps and GPS co-ordinates.
* Vehicle maintenance.

* Buying and selling vehicles.

* much more.

More general topics covered include

* Popular Overland routes.

* Vehicle shipping.

* Bribery tips and advice.

* General Paperwork requirements explained.

To start out, checkout the http://wikioverland.org/Overland_Frequently_Asked_Questions

For anyone interested, there are some things you can do to help make WikiOverland better for everyone:

* If you know a thing or two about the country you live in (like gas prices), please take the time to add or update that information.

* If you are passing through a country, please take 5 minutes and update sections that have changed.
If nothing has changed, you can just update the "last updated date" for those sections so we know it's still good as of now.
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...although this probably isn't a ton better. :-)
It usually means they want you to have the same views on what language to use, what platforms to use, what computers to use, whether or not you do "test driven development" and things like that. It can also mean they want you to be around the same age and have similar tastes in clothing, hobbies, political views and music.
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nice demo, clicking on stuff led to http://circos.ca/ which is also very awesome :)
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Maybe since there are now strategies being used by the powerful to minimize WL's effect that it makes sense for them to change their strategy as well.
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What also helps is to ruthlessly flag off-topic (especially political) and spam posts from the new page, if you have enough karma to flag submissions. Submissions that receive enough flags from different users are autokilled, and then they drop from the default view (showdead off) of the new page. I visit the new page frequently to look for good new articles to upvote to the main page, and to flag articles that don't belong on Hacker News at all.

I do like the idea of part of the main page display showing some subset of the newest submissions, as many very good articles don't make the critical karma gain soon after submission that is necessary to reach the main page under current forum settings. Hacker News doesn't offer a way to "bump up" old but good posts, as do forums that prioritize display by last reply date.
Way cool. Hopefully this also means that more hosters start supporting python 3.X. It's hard to find python hosting and even harder to find python 3.X hosting. Often VPS has been the only practical solution.
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I second what mikeash said about Twitter and I'd add that because of the nature of Twitter you'll be posting a support inquiry publicly (I doubt many DM's get sent) which makes the company want to resolve the issue and in the process make themselves look good.

It's like publicly saying "hey, we're a company that takes support seriously, just look at us being helpful". There was a great post on HN a few months back about a guy who got a steak delivered to him when he arrived home from the airport from his favorite restaurant because he tweeted something about really wanting one of their steaks before his flight departed and he mentioned them. The company had followed him on Twitter, knew he was a loyal customer and went the extra mile to personally deliver the steak when his flight landed. I always think of this story when I think about customer service for my own company.

The point is that Twitter's public nature can make or break you as a business and smart businesses know how to leverage that power for positive PR.
I was going to link to https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib-py3, but as of four days ago the 3.x branch was merged into the main repo: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib.
Yes, although in the end Vinay moved in a different direction (single shared source instead of 2to3). I'm really interested in diving in and figuring out some of the pros and cons of that approach; I hadn't thought it as going to be possible on a codebase like Django.
As am I..
I came across this this other day http://www.simplecv.org/
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There might be a tipping point when the big tech companies decide jack up the offers high enough to be competitive with finance. Once that threshold is crossed, I'd imagine you will see a flood of smart people fleeing the financial sector to do something more rewarding with their lives.
I've used them and didn't have a problem until I wanted to transfer to another domain registar. After painfully trying to find the transfer auth code and transferring the domain name, 1and1 continued to bill me for a couple of months. To their credit, they reversed the charges after I called them - but that didn't leave me with a satisfactory experience.

I can understand why a company might want to make it painful to leave their service, but continuing to bill me points to either incompetence (some bugs in their billing system) or a malicious act (doubt it though).

But otherwise, yea, a nice & cheap service.
You can also freely branch and merge between your own private branches, without making everybody else see these numerous branches polluting the file hierarchy of the central repo.

More generally, I never liked how to cvs and subversion a branch is basically just a copy at the file level. That mixes version control metadata among the file paths that are themselves being version controlled.
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For one, you can have much more atomic commits, which can help with maintaining the code and finding and fixing bugs. Just push all of your small commits at the end of the day.

Another benefit I've found--as a student with an internet connection that isn't always on--is that I can still commit without it.

It's also much easier to use branches in Git. If I want to try something weird, or temporarily break some code, it's trivial just to create and use a new branch.

Ultimately, the reason you're not seeing much of an advantage to Git right now is because (from a user's standpoint) it's basically a superset of SVN. Once you get used to it and learn more about it, chances are you'll start improving your workflow to take advantage of more of its features. Git can basically support the same workflow as a centralized system, but it also supports other scheme.
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The page has mentioned that for quite some time now, but I haven't heard of any actual effort on that front. Does anyone know if there's progress there?
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I waded through most of it and it seems as though the domain owner's email was broken into which then allowed the thief to begin the transfer process. So from what I'm reading here it actually wasn't GoDaddy's fault but just another Gmail account broken into.

I hate GoDaddy more than probably anyone here but it looks like their upselling and bad design didn't cause this one. Rats! I really wanted another excuse to talk shit about GoDaddy.
The "ideal" is to give the app permissions akin to another account. This way the app only changes what the user says it can change, etc, even to the point that users can upgrade or downgrade these permissions later.

The most obvious advantage is the app doesn't have to learn the users new password when they change passwords.

But you're right, the whole dance of having the app never `touch` the user's password is bullshit, a pretense cooked up by bureaucracy. You could get all the meaningful functionality of Oauth by letting apps request a single "permission key" when they login - with the user's password. On the other hand, if a site want real, meaningful security, it could give each user a seperate "app password" that they authorized apps with. That would provide real protection - but since it requires one teentsy extra step for the end user, it will never, ever fly.
The tech companies already do have offers high enough to be competitive with finance. On another note, I do not know why working at Facebook would be intrinsically more rewarding than working at Jane Street. Finally, the finance skill set is not quite the same as what is needed at Facebook. They would be more likely competing with startup companies and Google NYC.
On a bit of a tangent, I know quite a few practicing musicians who have tech skills and are in startups. They all seem to do quite well, perhaps because both career options require a lot of faith & passion, as well as financial discipline.
Every single time I've had to interact with Slicehost, I ended up tweeting my satisfaction and love for their customer support right afterwards. To be able to put faces to those names on the customer support chat and ubuntu configuration tutorials is amazing.

Kudos to 37signal for putting this up - the format is really cool, love the design - looking forward to more of these story-lines.

Cheers
Absolutely not related. I truly hope you made this comment out of pure and sincere ignorance. This isn't a story about rights being trampled on no matter how hard anyone may try to frame it that way. This is just another case of someone getting their email broken into and the byproducts of that break in which in this case was a stolen domain.
"One of the reasons domain prices are low is that people register domains they are not using."

Reverse causality?
Siracusa said so.
Sounds like great news!
Will this be merged into the official Django project?

And, what does it mean for developers using Django? Will I be able to run official Django 1.X on Py3k soon?
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fijal responded on the reddit post of the same topic about how sys.exc_info is dog slow under PyPy, so the dances you have to do for exception handling will probably rank highly in the con list. They're also pretty shitty looking.

Edit: you already responded over there, never mind.
Out of genuine curiosity, what influenced your decision to put your money into the bank? Personally, I think that's a very smart decision, though I know a lot of people who've gone into the angel investor game to varying degrees of success.

I once fancied the idea of becoming an angel investor (and have made a few very small investments), but then I spoke to a colleague about that path, and he gave me the harsh reality of it. That doesn't mean I still don't fantasize about it, but I know it's a very different skill set than I already have.
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Not just that, I would also assume that PageRank will penalise your site if a JS takes so long to execute.
How does it know where you are standing when it isn't the full path? It must integrate with the shell somehow, right?
This seems to be the fundamental shift in thinking since mp3's have become so ubiquitous in the last 15 years. The thinking that, if this isn't offered the way I want (mainly priced at whatever I choose, or as close $0.00 as possible, or if it isn't available), then I am rightly justified to steal it.

Doesn't anyone else think this is a problem? I'm not saying I don't do the same, but I don't justify it in any other way than saying that I want stuff for free.
To take your tangent further, this describes me! I originally was a musician and studied for a degree in Music Composition. At the same time I had also been programming for the web since I was like 11 or 12 and suddenly one day I realized that my career choice should have been my hobby and my hobby should be my career. Now I've been progra,Ming full time, in the web dev biz for almost a year, and got a small startup I'm hacking away on on the side. I also switched colleges and am a Comp Sci major.
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My job title is Software Engineer where I work (well that's what it says on my desk), and honestly I find it to be a little silly. Maybe because of what I grew up associating "engineer" with; my father is an engineer / manager for a power plant, which feels like 180 degrees away from what I do. But in the end it's just words, I couldn't care less what you call me as long as I'm being paid to code!
Ah, lowering the barrier to entry to the stock market. Can't think of any way this could go wrong.
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This? http://aeroquad.com/

I'm not sure how much effort it will replace thought. I doubt everything can be abstracted away in a software.
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Thanks for your comment, its the other schemes beyond a centralised workflow that I have not arrived at yet, as I'm new to Git and not finding it friendly so far (despite years of experience with other systems), I probably just don't get it yet ;-)
Unless they were making copies and forwarding the e-mails on.
Agreed. You can make it pretty far on effort alone.
Apply and mention it, I can't give you a definitive answer either way. We do have some people working as consultants in Europe (your other comments seem to suggest that you are living in Oslo?).
Problem is that running a company isn't something that brings me happiness.
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He said on the page that it apparently involved a Gmail hack of some kind, so even if it's not "the only way", it sounds like it was how it was stolen in this case.
This is related to the discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3302144
You're being down-voted for the very same reason that someone in the US complaining that Canada doesn't use imperial units would be.
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Antarctica.
I use VMs to test for bugs in my code on other platforms, and to test new releases of various Linux distributions.
Not everything in life is meant to be loved. I hate flossing, but its a necessary evil if I want to have teeth when I'm 60.

Some things just need to be done.
If your understanding of the military comes from 1960's television sitcoms, you're not qualified to discuss this subject.
I don't think it has anything to do with ego inflation.

To me "engineer" evoques a specific methodology and state of mind that is shared by all engineers, whether they build bridges, sewer systems or software. It emphasizes that your job is to create solutions to real-world problems - and that writing software is just one part of that job.
I think its unfortunate that RMS speaks at RT - a channel that broadcasts Russian government propaganda and weird conspiracy theories.
why having a company gives you what you want vs running a company? Do you just need the money to be happy?
If people own their organs, then why can't they sell them? In any case, this seems to be a step in the right direction.
Short story: delusions of grandeur

Slightly longer story: ever since I was very little what I've always wanted to do most was to change the world. In whatever nontrivial way possible.

At first I thought this meant I should become a scientist, but as my understanding of the world matured I realized the scientists I look up to most are actually entrepreneurs and that without being entrepreneurs their contribution to the world mostly simply wouldn't have as big an impact.
I've written large Rails and Sinatra apps, as well as a couple Spring apps and straight Java apps. I"m evaluating Play now and even though I usually prefer Ruby to Java, I'm finding Play (with Eclipse configured to be Textmate like) as productive, if not more so, than Rails.
Yep, I realize that, but the first thing I wanted to do was drag P1 left and that's impossible.
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Robert Jordan is dead, so I'm not so sure what you expect to happen through that donation...
Isn't it a little early to say "wrongly," while the companies are still playing hot potato?
I love Siracusa's podcast, Hypercritical. Always opinionated, and even right some times, Dan Benjamin basically just gets out of his way and let's him rock out. I particularly like the fact that Siracusa's ideas come out so quickly, it's sometimes hard for _siracusa_ to keep up them.

Of course, his other claim to fame are his Epic OS X reviews.
Quicklisp works differently: it gives you a consistent set of libraries. If you want to get the library with some exact version (which may be inconsistent with the current quicklisp dist), you can download it separately and use at your own risk. (And quicklisp will quickload it as well, because it gives preference to local libraries - nice :)

This isn't ideal, but here you have to make some trade-off, because in both Java and Lisp you can't have two versions of the same library loaded at once (actually, in Lisp you can do that with some rename-package trickery, but that's beyond the scope of quicklisp. I wonder, can you do the same thing in clojure? ;)

Considering specifying dev-dependencies. Once again it's not in the scope of quicklisp, which is a library distribution tool and not a dependency management tool. But ASDF, the build tool and dependency management system, allows to do that quite easy: for example, you can define a separate system for dev, which you may load or not load, depending on your needs.

Actually, leiningen tries to do all at once: dependency management, library distribution and building. And that's why it's quite complicated (in the sense of Rich Hickey's complecting, I mean)...
"Other startups, like TeamTreehouse and CodeCademy, are trying to teach programming online, but Griffin says that just doesn’t work."

What data does he base this assumption on?
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Thanks! I'll definitely keep that in mind :)
You own yourself, but cannot sell yourself into slavery, for very good reasons.
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Quantcast uses MarkMonitor [1]. I bet it's expensive, and I have no idea how expensive, but you can configure your domain such that changing any registration information requires a phone call to a short list of people (ie CEO, CTO, or head sysadmin) and security codes. If your domain is important, it might be worth it.

Also, godaddy just got private-equitied, so it's going to be extra shit as they ruin the company, pay themselves an enormous fee, and sell it to the next greater fools [2].

[1] https://www.markmonitor.com/services/domain-management.php

[2] http://mashable.com/2011/07/02/godaddy-sold/
and I pointed out the headaches they caused me. I'm not really sure what point you are trying to make.
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Sorry, s/database/text field/. The box is only 20 characters long, why would someone need more?

Look, I understand what you're saying. I'm not saying this is right, I'm saying they just don't think. Security gets confused with validation, so they just put in a number and move on.
I'm pleased that this has been picked up and welcome your critique above.

You're point about not fully understanding coffee is probably fair. I didn't sit down and learn coffee before actually starting on this project and kind of picked it up as I went along.

Most of my comments were about personal opinion and I think coffee could be extremely useful if learned and used appropriately.

The syntax thing is more relating to the function vs -> points. By not putting "function" in a different color, I find it difficult to see where functions start.

The Ternary operator example, is indeed typo, missing line break. It was supposed to read

x = true

x? "Badger" : "Fish"

The points in the original post were my experiences with coffee and I hope to be able to use coffee in the future, but until I figure out the issue with closures and the language becomes more mature and has decent debugging tools, I'll stick to plain ol' JS.

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I finally had a better understanding of the context of the opportunity and started to think big. And I found people I liked who understood the vision and were willing to back the idea.

The hosting bill back then was ~$100/month since it all ran on a single box so, no, that wasn't a factor. It was a question of opportunity and not costs.
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I don't understand how this is related to the article. The article has to do with searching spatial data structures, such as you would make for partitioning the space of a large scene in a graphics or mapping application (or game, etc.). Maybe I'm wrong and someone could enlighten me....
That ... sounds ominous and fascinating. Would you mind writing about your experience?
Mattee is still right that part of the decision from the Swiss gov comes from the fact that file sharing does not hurt the Swiss local economy (they explicitly say it).

I don't think there's anything wrong with it, they exploit their status of being a small country. The Swiss have always been ignoring other countries problems and only do what benefits them most (hence the fiscal situation and the protection of the bank industry).

If you can afford doing it, why not do it?
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Isn't Jane Street a little... unique? Most banks don't write blogs about OCaml, right?
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Awesome. Yet Another Web Service Not Available In Canada. I think I'm going to start trending #YAWSNAIC .

It's not like Canadian distribution laws are so complex that no one can understand them. But services available in the US that are also available in Canada are rare... Pandora, Spotify, Google Music, Amazon MP3, etc... None of these are in Canada, and Senzari already says it's not available in my country. But Grooveshark and Last.FM work. Is someone being lazy?
Ha, General Assembly :)
From the article: "Stallman is the man behind the concept that every computer program must be free for users to study and modify as they want."

Does he suggest software must be free?

We know he doesn't say the must be free in cost. Does he say they need to be free as in speech? I've never heard him say that. I don't think of him as telling others what they must do.

I feel like a lot of the polarization around what he says comes from misunderstanding. This feels like one of them.
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