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I was an artist most life and learned engineering when I was 20. It was extremely difficult but I did well and graduated at the top of my class. I can still draw and paint, but creating beautiful web interfaces is very hard for me. Like you're saying, it's not for lack of ability. It's a curse of knowledge.

When you design a UI as an engineer, you're thinking long term. Like make the whole thing white so that new features can be added in easily. Also, the logo is going to need to look good on white anyway for email footers, Facebook apps, etc..., so just make header background white. Then you may have integrations with third-party widgets. All will support white best.

Also, things that 'look' good often are not usable. Like text below 11px, and low contrast shades of text may not be visible to older folks. I see this stuff all the time on sites with 'awesome' design.

Also, images for backgrounds, corners, buttons etc... slow the page load down and don't allow for easy extensibility or iterating. So if I can't do it with CSS, I don't do it.

Page load time, non-buginess, and iteration leading to smooth functionality are the most important parts of UX, IMO. Making the site look like a piece of art does none of these, but I think art gets confused with UX too often. Do you visit this site for the beautiful design? How about Google or Facebook?

If you spend the time to do beautiful design and functionality like Apple, you can create something where the beauty does not detract from usability. But, that takes somewhere on the order of 10x the resources since they're doing 10 prototype designs, refining 3 of them, and only keeping one. If you're trying to create a market, then that makes sense. However, if you're trying to create the most useful product in an existing market, then you're wasting time IMO.
You could always buy the device outright instead of letting AT&T subsidize it.
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I had a similar idea sometime ago. I think you can try a ton of things before deciding that it's failing.

Let users create their own guides, which they can share with others for free. User generated content can be a huge driver of traffic. Then your business model becomes freemium. Normal users' guides are free, but you pay a little for "expert" guides.

Get professional tour guides on board. For example, in the UK we have blue badge guides who are certified. Getting them on your site will add some credibility.

Make some deals with existing tour companies, either to offer discounts through your site or just a cut of ticket sales.

Have you considered selling your existing guides as ebooks on Amazon or other platforms? Even if you have some awesome guides, I don't know about them because I've never heard of your site. I do go to Amazon to buy travel guides when I'm travelling. If I see your guides show up in the search, I will at least look at a sample on my Kindle. You could do both - have some free guides for promotion and have some cheap ones to make some revenue.

Have you considered selling hard copies of your guides? Most people don't have a way to read a PDF when they are travelling.

Use the Foursquare API to show a "hot destinations" chart on the homepage. Show where people are checking in and link to your guides for those places.

Use buysellads or call businesses directly to place very targeted ads on the site. Affiliate links for tickets and hotel bookings may also work. AirBNB has an affiliate program - ride their success wave.

There are lots more things you could try. The important things I feel are generating lots more content and being creative about distribution channels.
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Observation biais.

Estimations from China:

- In my office, a Web company: Android vs iOS is maybe 30 - 70

- In the subway, Android vs iOS is more like 80 - 20.
No downvotes because Miguel... we love you (and Mono et al. are really good pieces of technology)
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That is only 10,000 years before all of humanity has one...
Mozilla could just sell the search bar to Bing or anyone else for that matter. This really isn't that dangerous unless searching the web as a whole "pulls an Enron" and people go back to browsing Yahoo! categories.
With samsung the world leader in ram I would have thought they could've done some great things in ssd field. Bummer.
I think you mean 10,000 DAYS (which is still 27.4 years).
Glad the sale wasn't the other way.

I remember when Seagate first bought Maxtor.
You get diagnosed, usually without you having any idea it's coming.

For me, I didn't get diagnosed until this year, and I'm 32. It gets worse as you get older.

It took one hospitalization and a treatment center for me to get properly treated.

Bipolar used to be called manic depression, because it is characterized by two main phases:

Depression: Usually more severe than even Major Depressive Disorder in bipolars. High risk of suicide. Suicidal ideation, inability to eat, complete loss of functioning, etc.

Mania or Hypomania: Periods of highly elevated mood. May exhibit grandisoity, visions, hallucinations, increase in spending and sexual activity. Increase in irritability.

There's mixed states too, like a wired depression that is lethal. They're not as common.

The #1 symptom of all mood disorders is sleep disturbance.
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It took me about as long to write the program as it would to have just calculated the royalties - it saved no time.

That's key. The more difficult situation is when it takes more time to write the script than it does to do the darn thing. In that situation when people are strapped for cash and resources, guess which they'll choose if they don't have vision and backbone to endure the short-term pain. In day-to-day operations, people would rather not endure the short-term pain because everything needs to be done yesterday, especially in poorly managed organizations. Of course, the gems will eventually leave the poorly managed organizations too.
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I took CS101 twice because I hated it. When i found my passion in web, that's all I needed. I learned AS3 and LAMP in a relatively short time; it was just a matter of motivation!
MacVim also uses a native open dialog, as well as Finder right click 'new macvim buffer here', both of which are kind of nice.
Whether real or not, this would look more legit if there weren't so many jump cuts.
In my team, in the last 3 months, 6 people have bought Androids vs 2 buying the iphone 4s
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Geopolitically, South Korea is a puppet state of the American Empire. So is Japan.

Both countries invaded Iraq for oil at the command of George Bush II.

Both countries have ~30,000 imperial troops stationed there.

Both countries toe the imperial line on foreign policy.

Why can't Americans see their own Empire? The rest of the world does.
As a desingineer (not a particularly amazing one), I love the freedom I have to create entire projects front to back on my own and have them look and work great. But I totally agree about the "slotting." If I do one or the either, I feel slighted. If I do both, but get paid the same as if I did one, I feel slighted. I think desingineers are meant to be on their own, not slotted into one or the other in a larger group.
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The most interesting thing about that video is that I'd love to have such a piano in my living room just to have it play great piano music for me all day.
This reminded me how much I wanted a Disklavier. I've played piano for much of my life, and when I acquired a Roland Juno 5 years ago, the first thing I did was write some custom MIDI software to... test it out. While I'd probably be more careful with such expensive equipment, I'd love to know what happens if I fed it the same program that fried a voice chip on the Juno.

(Like cleverjake pointed out, the music is really made by the Disklavier's controller. Still a fun hack.)
As far as I'm aware, books are cheap in India.

I wonder what usecase would justify an underpowered tablet.
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(According to Wikipedia...) Seagate and WD are both have their HQs in California but Seagate is incorporated in Ireland. They also have a wafer fab in Northern Ireland.
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Just because most (not all) programmers are self-taught, doesn't mean that's the natural or optimal state of being.

This is mostly a criticism of academic CS (which aims to produce systems programmers and researchers). The underlying implication that programming is somehow unteachable is bogus.
There are far more cost-effective ways to mature bright teenagers into contributing adults for society. Arguably more effective ways at large as well.
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As the largest flash vendor, Samsung may win no matter which controllers are used. Seagate has no consumer SSDs so I can understand why they want to buy that business from Samsung.
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IANAL but have you ever read an Open Source license? Or almost any other software license? If you cannot unload liabilities onto the consumer, you cannot have Open Source code. If you could sue for a defective "free" product we would be worse off. Or do you want to require all software to always, legally "work". At some point, customers should be held accountable for their choices.
Strange, my first edition Java in a Nutshell was published February 1996, three months earlier.
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cat a big logfile on iTerm, cat a big logfile in terminal.

Then for some really screaming performance, cat a big logfile in xterm. Then, for insane performance cat a big logfile in mrxvt or rxvt.

Anti aliasing really slows things down, so performance is faster in the "native" terminal apps when that turned off, but with x11, theres way less than millisecond delays for printing stuff on the screen. I do like my terminal to be fast.
I will never purchase a compiler made by you or someone who thinks like you. Sure, it will take 30 seconds to fix your puny 2000 line program that's contained in just a handful of files all of which you control and with no code generation engines or text transformation steps in its build chain. But it wouldn't be that easy for everyone.
It actually is inevitable, as even you admit when we begin to reach our 70s/80s ;). If we don't die of something else, all of us will die of Alzheimer's. Simple fact of universal amyloid plaque buildup. http://www.amazon.com/Ending-Aging-Rejuvenation-Breakthrough...

Also technically incorrect on the mental decline as well - our brains do start to irrevocably decline at around age 30. Our myelin sheaths fully develop in the early 20s, and from there, we have a few golden years until it's all downhill :D http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090320092111.ht...
I looked at the 2 itineraries available for my city and it was the typical tourist attractions. Like others have commented they're already widely recommended online and in print guidebooks. If I made an itinerary for a friend i'd recommend specific niche places the locals go relevant to their interests.

What if you bump the price up to $20+ per itinerary then offered more value by having each itinerary custom made to match each customer's personal interests. Maybe also have the 'local experts' who made the guide ranked like a restaurant on yelp to build up trust.
I remember my AI Professor telling us about the teddy bear solution where, before you ask a question to someone else, pick up a teddy bear and ask it. More often than not, saying it out loud will most likely answer your question.
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I saw the downvotes and just chuckled. I literally DID have it open for 3 weeks. What I posted DID happen, no exaggerations.
Mythical and wanted as may be, it is also one of the most misunderstood kind of roles. Bigger companies are simply not used to combine design and engineering in one role and try to push you into one (oh, you can code?). As a jack of all trades, master of none, you are often not taken seriously by either side and have to work twice as hard to prove yourself.

Once you do make it into the right places though, it is an incredibly fun and diverse job. I take most of my satisfaction from the notion that I can go from concept to (prototype) implementation on my own if I have to. It is one of the most empowering feelings in the world.
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> It's not 'bipolar disorder', specifically.

Indee it's not about actual bipolar disorder (a.k.a. maniac-depression) at all. It's just a figure of speech. It's describing more a combination of cronic procrastination, unwillingness to do "boring" things even when it arguably goes against their self-interest (e.g. failing Intro to Philosophy), etc.

(I wish I could make myself clearer but I have no time for that now, as that would be procrastination).
Is this really so different from other disciplines? I find that courses and theory are good for grasping the basic concepts, not for actually learning how to use those concepts in the real world. I'm guessing that holds for most other disciplines too.

I read a course about data structures. It was taught in Java, but it was very clear that Java was not the point. What did I learn by that? Not to write linked lists in Java - I've never had to do that again - but to understand the basics of how to think about storing data in your programs.

For me, courses are great for grasping theory.
If you can't spend 1-2 days revisiting old basic algorithms like this, you are not even self-motivated or capable of learning on the job to probably join the "bigger names" like you mention. Interviews like these test how well you are at basic comp. sci problems. I used to be like you and from a much more distant country but eventually I realized these questions have a lot of merit: if you don’t know these basics all you are capable of is gluing some APIs and solving some of integration/compatibility problems in different platforms. Not a good fit for companies who are creating those APIs, platforms and breaking new ground. Also, think about it from a statistics point of view: you are more likely to get false positive with people who can’t pass that simple question those who can.
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In the short term this is good for Seagate. In the long term though, I think this is good for Samsung. More and more of our memory needs are being met by online storage.

Sure we'll need NAND going into the future. But are we going to need it in the quantities that we currently demand when cloud storage is becoming more and more popular?
Fortunately, there is more competition in the SSD space. And given that SSD will probably become the norm in laptops and desktops, this shouldn't be a problem for most people.
QuickSilver: just works, and selects correct thing you might be looking for.
Spotlight: is slow, show all kinds of crap you are NOT looking for. To add insult to injury it also requires typing way more characters to get a hit, and requires several keypresses to select that item, not just return.

Z does for cd what QuickSilver does for the Finder. It's totally awesome: https://github.com/rupa/z
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Or use Ruby and ActiveSupport::Dependencies.
Does it support large (256k samples) array FFTs? I could use it for PADsynth algorithm ( http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/doc/PADsynth/PADsynth.htm ).

Also, from the API, it seems that I could implement Paulstretch algorithm ( http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/ ) easily. When I'll have some free time, I'll try it.
EDIT: I looked a bit closer on interface EFFECT and Paulstretch cannot be implemented as an effect, but as a generator. Needs to be studied more :)
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* Terminal.app

* SBCL

* DiffMerge

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* Graphviz

* Chrome, Adium

I have not spent 1 cent on software for my Mac so far. The only software that tempts me is OmniGraffle, because it really is that good.

I live on the command line and quite often, in open source software.
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> in practical use it doesn't have enough contrast for me

This is actually what makes the deal for me. On my bright, (nonprofessionally) calibrated IPS screens most color schemes are just too much of an eyestrain for long coding sessions. Solarized (either Dark or Light) is deliciously smooth and pleasing.
I suppose it's great advice, though it does highlight the sad state of affairs at the moment.

It is a game of musical chairs, and you need be sure to be in a seat every time the music stops. Make yourself or others redundant, and you make the company happy. For a while, until the next round.

Centralized technology is making jobs redundant at an incredible pace.
Agreed. Two of my latest Seagate purchases died while I was very satisfied with Samsung. It might be worse though, buying a Samsung drive, should one expect Seagate or Samsung quality in the future?
what are they doing to broaden the applicant pool?

And why you want them to do so? I personally want that YC or any other program select applicants based on their skills and abilities and not any other criteria.
WD and Seagate now make 87% of all disk drives. Unsurprisingly, they just slashed warranty on various drives down from 5 to 3 years, and even down to only 1 or 2 years for some models. Oligopoly will suck for us consumers.
Being "a weird UI obsessive" is a very small subset of users, given that if you asked a typical smartphone user what "UI" means a majority of them probably couldn't tell you.
They told us about it when mentioning why cores of inductors are made of layered steel and not a single piece. That apparently keeps the eddy currents at bay.
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Yea there is absolutely nothing impressive about this. Thank you for saying it in black and white.
Yeah it is a great game, you need to think in a broader fashion than angry birds. It is kind of like the difference between protecting something vs attacking it a la computer security; protecting takes more forethought.
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Storage professional here. Disk drives failure rate is usually 0.5 to 3% a year. Drives do fail, so you can't draw any statistical significant figures from the failure of a couple of drives among a total of four or five (or even ten or twenty).

However my company's selling drives by the thousands, and here's what I can say: Seagate barraccuda are the worst pieces of crap being sold since the infamous IBM 80GB debacle; their failure rate is 10% a year, no less. Unsurprisingly Seagate just dropped their warranty to ... 1 year! Keep away from these at all costs...

Seagate Constellation seem to be OK but I only have a few of these.

Hitachi 1, 2 and 3 TB look impressive: 1 failure among 2 thousand drives, in 2 years.

WD seem OK, but I haven't nearly enough of them to get significant numbers (a couple hundreds).
excel is the reference. it is so ridiculously optimized, it is not even funny.

outside of spreadsheets, take the itunes simple list view as a baseline. the 'simple' things are important. double-clicking the column border resizes the column to fit the longest text, etc.
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I like the simplicity of the idea, but I would not enjoy a daily mail with a colloquial tone as is used in the website. Maybe because I'm nearing my forties...

I have a similar reaction when the cigarette paper I buy use "tu" instead of "vous" to address me (in French).

I suppose one can choose to write something like “What’d you get done today?” because the normal way “'d be borin'”, but in fact and all things well considered, the colloquial tone is more boring (to me), after two or three reads.
Online storage providers still need to purchase hard disks.
Nah, most people would search bing for google.com.
Well that's true, assuming that digital distribution is less expensive (likely) and the copyright holders are not charging anything (less likely).