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This guy has some interesting points, and does seem to be addressing the problem. I was one of those 20-something techies who quit after a year (not at his company, though).

Legacy code base, of course is not as much fun. Dual ownership of projects is a really good idea. At my old job, I was thrown into the code base with no support, and told to figure it out. I did, but it's not much fun scratching your head for a month and then writing 100 lines of code. Especially after a few rounds of this, with no feedback.

The 9-5 thing is interesting, but I don't think I could do a 9-5 shop. That might be great if you are established, have a family, and are working on a known problem, but for me, I find that I'm either 100% in, or 0% in, and there's not much in between. I think I'd get bored in an environment like that pretty quick (that's not to say that they're wrong, just that it's not for me).

As for working from home, not sure that it's too important. I mean, hopefully if you have a package or a doctor's appointment you can VPN in for the day, but as a whole, don't really care.

Ultimately though, money is a big part. At my old job, I got a stellar performance review, and a 2% raise for the year. They also bumped the baseline for new collage hires to more than it was when I joined (so I was now making less than the new college hires). I said that this was unacceptable, that my rent had gone up more than that, and that I wanted 5%. They said no, but that next year I'd be in for a promotion. I said goodbye, and they offered me $20,000 to stay. That's just broken. I left.
Does design make startups successful?
at peak of popularity, photobucket would burst to high-single-digits of all bandwidth on the web. I can believe that megaupload would also burst to low-to-mid single digits considering just how much of the pirate tube sites and warez sites point to megaupoad now.
"In America, we don’t like to be rude." Ummm here in NYC being rude is pretty much the most popular sport!
Who Was Steve Jobs?
I suppose if the order is as such, "we already have this stance, and if we market it now it will benefit us" it would not bug me as much. However if it had this order "If we take this stance and market it, it will benefit us" it implies the stance will last only as long as the marketing and the benefit. I guess at the lowest root, I feel like marketing and politics should never be mixed, that using marketing in politics, and taking advantage of politics in marketing is somehow perhaps irrationally, the cause of a lot of our current cultural and lobbying abuse troubles. However, I am so left wing I fall a bit off the scale and I most definitely do not have the soul of a business man, perhaps I am best dismissed as a crazy person.
Antarctica has more fresh water than the rest of Earth too, and on top of that it's twice as warm as the Martian poles, far more accessible and even has a breathable atmosphere — but there aren't millions of people there either, and it's still considered a very harsh environment. In fact, even the people who live in Antarctica tend to avoid it in the winter.

> Also, you are incorrect in your silly assumption that life will be harsh for the millions that arrive - it seems much more likely that we could send robots to build the infrastructure while the first few land, making small cities, etc, and otherwise preparing for the mass arrival.

AFAIK, this is not literally impossible, but is way beyond our technological ability right now. If you mean a couple of centuries from now, yeah, maybe. But do we even have any proof-of-concept cities built entirely by robots on earth? (And keep in mind that to really reflect Martian conditions, they'd have to be thermally insulated cities that produce their own energy without any geothermal or hydraulic input and very little solar input and which have independent air supplies — but any cities built by robots would surprise me.)
I think the biggest change for regular users is a good package manager. ELPA is coming per default in emacs24, and there is a project in github (el-get) that is even better. I have a pretty big emacs config, and configuring some external modules (and updating them!) used to be a nightmare. Now it has gotten much easier.
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Mark your calendars for SpaceXs next launch (to the space station) on feb 7.
Please add this line, for a vehicle which flew and suceessfully put its payload in orbit:

Energya: 100 metric tons (retired)

Ares V and SLS have never flown, yet.

So if Falcon Heavy works and flies before SLS, it will be the third most capable (in terms of mass to LEO) launch vehicle ever flown, not second, and the most capable of those availbale at the time, since the two vehicles which have succesfully lifted more mass are both retired.

Being third and the only one currently availbale should be good enough. There is no need to lie and claim you are second.
Forgot about the Energiya. To bad it only flew successfully once. Had the Soviet Union not crumbled around the same time things may have been different.
Where do you get your water and food? Do you subsist on a foraging diet and drink water only from nearby streams.

Technically speaking, the carrying capacity of the Earth under such conditions is low. Prior to the advent of agriculture and modern sanitation the human population was naturally limited. First by the availability of food, then by the problems of disease inherent in city living. The technology to live the way humans do today is only about a century old. Our food and water typically are the products of industry and technology. Mars would up the ante a bit but in essence would be little different. The norm on Earth is not free roaming foragers living naked out of doors.
Another huge oversight which they only fixed 2 days ago was only enabled 2GB of virtual memory on 64bit OSes. This made most 64bit OS people I've spoken to crash every few minutes. How did that get past QA?

Of course, it could be fixed with a patch on the EXE someone released. Until they encryped the EXE (to prevent piracy) and broken the only fix people had for a month.
Your best bet would probably be to get the unions to pull back support. But doing that will be hard.
It renders 12.5% more than twice as many pixels. Maybe that's a lot; my brain doesn't do relative quantities to better than 1 significant figure.
We started our migration process for AeroFS yesterday (I actually looked through email chats with Weihan, my co-founder, and every few months we've been talking about moving away from GoDaddy; yesterday was the final straw)

Still, I'm wary of moving the domains until we're all back at the office (many of us are taking time off for holidays for the next few days).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_(rocket_family)#Spec...

12 tons demonstrated and 25 tons in development.
Union knowledge workers. Outside of healthcare do they exist in the US?
Isn't the indication that Google said it will remove H.264? Have you seen Google go back on that statement?
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Takes $1.5 Million Pay Cut
My two biggest dissapointments with the Steve Jobs bio was they they never really gave both NeXT and Pixar the proper attention that they deserved. To me the wilderness years of Steve Jobs are where the real insights are for my money. In fact I'd dare say that even the failures of NeXT helped Apple a great deal -- it's as if running that company was where Jobs earned his MBA.
It cuts both ways. What if someone with nothing to lose found some way to take out sony.com or whatever? I hope that will never be possible, and I bet anyone trying that would end up in jail, but you never know.
when you are talking about total internet traffic, 2% reach with a page that weighs 100KB is very different to having a 0.1% reach of people downloading pirated movies
A 32-bit executable can use 2 GB on both 32 and 64 bit OSes; there's a linker flag that lets you use 3 GB, if you're not playing any dirty tricks with your pointer bits. More than that, and you need to recompile the EXE for 64-bit, which is far from trivial, and uncommon for games. Especially games that also run on 512 MB consoles.
And nowadays you can throw in multithreading problems into the mix.
That stuff reads like the biography of a real-life Tony Stark.
I have to think there is a huge financial worldwide cost associated with fighting what you characterize as a nuisance.
> Putting patients in deep debt,

The bankruptcies are from living expenses, not medical expenses. Sick people can't work, so housing and so on become a problem. Free unlimited heathcare can't solve that problem.

> going uninsured,

All poor people in the US are eligible for medicaid. Many don't bother to sign up until they get sick. While they're technically uninsured until then, they're not actually uninsured.

> people dying because they can't pay for treatments,

Feel free to list any place that will do every possible treatment "for free". (And no "every approved procedure is free" isn't anywhere near "every possible procedure".)If you can't, we're merely arguing about where "for free" stops.

There's always a point where it comes out of your pocket. Yes, even under the nationalized system.
This timeline seems to be unaware of package.el, ELPA, etc, by proposing bundling MORE packages by default in Emacs (IMO Emacs' default installation is already huge).

Also, I don't see the keybinding changes gaining any traction, because they would conflict with too many existing packages. As one of many examples, C-c (proposed for Copy) is already used for lisp compilation.
There is no real recipe for success.
> However, when you look at the actual accelerations involved the moon is much more attracted to the earth (by over 100x) than it is to the sun

Your "over 100x" figure is entirely made up. The correct answer is 0.46.

Depth of the well does not matter, it is the steepness of the well. In other words, what is pulling the hardest on the Moon. The Sun pulls twice as hard as the Earth, so there is a compelling argument that the Sun is the Moon's primary.

The black hole at the center of the Milky Way is (rounding up for your benefit) 4 million solar masses and 27000 ly away. But that inverse square law really hurts and the Sun's gravitational force is 733e15 times stronger than the black hole's.

Let's step it up and include all 10 billion solar masses in the center. The Sun is still ahead by a factor of 290 trillion. The galactic core has almost no effect on the solar system, so it is silly to claim that any planetary body orbits the core.

Regarding tidal lock, the force of tidal lock is (more or less) proportionate to gravitational force * angular velocity. While the Earth's gravitational force on the Moon is half as strong as the Sun's, the relative angular velocity is 12 times faster. So the Earth's tidal forces on the Moon are six times stronger than those of the Sun. Naturally, the Moon is tidal locked to the Earth.
Good debugging is key, and as anyone who ever worked with me will note, I'm a fantastic debugger (in no small part because I'm cold, rational, and rarely get upset). I keep meaning to write up a post for my blog with "Andy's rulez of debugging." There are really very simple, but very effective.

Like: "don't assume" and "divide and conquer" (they do require a bit of explanation)
People would rate you "great" but you'll be able to say "How would you know?". At which point, the better you get, the worse
you'll know you are. Anybody who rates themselves as "great" is probably on the uphill side of the learning curve.

This attitude annoys me greatly. I understand Dunning-Krueger and all, but I still don't buy the idea that skill is inversely proportional to confidence. I think it's simplistic to think that confidence directly implies lack of skill and vice-versa.

I mean clearly no one likes an ego-maniac who acts like a know it all. But at the same time, sometimes people are right when they say good things about themselves. Even if they act completely narcissistic.

In fact, I would say that maturing has done nothing but increase my confidence in my skill level. I think that I can say that I'm a good programmer and that I hope to be a great programmer some day without being cocky or egotistical. It doesn't mean that I'm always right or that I don't make mistakes. But at the end of the day, I have confidence in my abilities.
I'm pretty sure openbsd is fine, since they removed telnetd from the OS years ago. The big question is, why do other systems still have a telnetd?
It should be pointed out that Emacs maintainers aren't in some kind of stubborn elitist get-off-my-lawn mindset.

Making Emacs more welcoming to newbies has been discussed time and again on the Emacs mailing lists. But the general consensus (one that I happen to agree with) seems to be that "learning Emacs the hard way" is, generally, the right way.

As just one example, I think that emulating the inferior Undo/Redo paradigm (using the Ctrl+Y/Z binding familiar to Windows and MacOS users) hides the full power of the Kill Ring and may mean that some Emacs users will never get to know about it.

I know it's a topic of heated debate and I don't mean to start this debate all over here on HN. I just thought it would be good to point out that newbie-friendliness is continually being considered and reconsidered by Emacs' maintainers, but (for the most part) usually rejected, and I think for good reasons.

See this thread for one example, there are many more if you care to look for them:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2005-03/msg...
Only thing I know of that it gets used for in my work is to talk to certain routers that don't support ssh version 2 since the software I work with doesn't support ssh version 1 anymore.
This is understandable, but the valuable thing that this article illustrates is how, if you have entrepreneurial leanings, going to work as a developer within a business whose primary product is not related to software is not a winning proposition. Management isn't always a rational creature, and no amount of negotiation can get you a reasonable offer.

Obviously there's a ton of money to be made by catering to businesses that have money, but the best way to extract that money isn't to go and program VB6 all day. It's to start a separate business that offers that same service, which patterns the transaction in such a way that management is willing to pay market rates.
I agree with you about most/all voluntary transactions being win-win (it seems almost tautological), but the question then becomes, "How many transactions involving both the very rich and the poor are truly voluntary and non-coercive?"
I really don't know, but it sure seems like a potential horrible, Netflix level misstep. There's no evidence that FB users want Timeline or that it will work the way they want their social network to work.
Android drivers to be included in Linux 3.3 kernel
Bingo. The questions one asks before launch are "Does it work?" and "Will it sell?". Performance is part of the former only inasmuch as it impacts the latter. Far more important in those final days is the coarse QA, not tuning.

Look down that forum post for all the people asking for help getting it working. Every one of those would have been a lost sale if this were in the shipping product.

And who knows: maybe this was off for a reason. Maybe they hit some voodoo late in the process which produced a crash bug on one of their 19 test systems that didn't occur with a debug build. So one of the engineers tries an unoptimized build and it works. Slightly slower is better than crashing, so they pulled the trigger and shipped it.

Shipping software only looks easy when you look only at code.
Everything I've ever read from this guy makes him look like an asshole. At first you think it makes sense, then you think about it for a moment and you realize that it isn't a good idea.

Paying extra is not the solution. Doing something while you wait may be one. But I doubt 30 to 60 minutes a week is really worth paying anything extra. Stay up 5 or 10 minutes later every week and you make up your "time saved by paying" except for free. Plus the 5 minutes really won't mess with your sleep pattern.

I remember the last post I read where he called his entire staff a bunch of jokers, tried to make a point about being exceptional, and made everyone involved look like jokers anyway. I think this guy might do this stuff on purpose. It really gets people talking and you know they say any press is good press.
This hasn't been updated in nearly 2 years.
This post is really starting to make anti-SOPA look like a witch hunt. Why point the finger at startups who use Godaddy's services?

Godaddy itself is just one company on a long list. This attack against Godaddy is nothing but a big distraction from the real issue: fighting SOPA.
I totally agree. Getting laid off once will shift your world view. The company is generally going to act in its best interest, and so should you. I love my current company and feel 'loyal' in a general sense, but that's because they treat me exceptionally well and constantly throw cool projects at me.

Here's what I don't get. All of my contracts so far have been for 'at will' employment -- meaning either party can terminate employment at any time. If you want to keep someone around a while, why not have them sign a 3 year contract? I would consider signing such a contract if the incentives were right.
> my app provides a service that was missing on the iPad.

That’s awesome! What is it? Is there a way you could tell people what that is in the description of the app?

Right now I have trouble telling what’s different about Read from, for instance, Instapaper.

Like paulsilver, I don’t think that “beautiful and revolutionary” means enough by itself.
I live in Germany, and I know many engineers who work for one of the big carmakers (either directly or through some external company). Most of them are under some form of collective bargaining agreement. They have a lot of nice perks, like paid overtime (in the form of days of) and pretty good salaries.

Meanwhile I work as a developer for an internet company. I've never heard of anybody working under a CBA, or any kind of compensation for overtime (except for extreme cases, like working on sundays). I earn significantly less too.

So I guess unions can be good sometimes, or something.
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In government jobs.
Yes. Use the modulus implementation of the vignere cypher. Then look up how C and python handle modulus.
"The U.S. House judiciary committee responsible for the Stop Online Piracy Act (or SOPA)" - from the first sentence in the link (note the URL for the PDF is at http://judiciary.house.gov).
5 Reasons you don't want Ice Cream Sandwich
Warning: I upgraded an HP ProLiant DL385 server from CentOS 6 to 6.2 and the network stopped working due to an incompatibility with the 6.2 driver.

If you have a server that uses a Broadcom ethernet controller (tg3 driver) I hope this saves you having to make a Christmas trip to the data center...
State and local government.

Some "knowledge worker" roles in phone companies are CWA positions.
I'd be less worried about the fact you're a couple and more about the skills you bring to the team.

Lanyrd (YC W11) was founded by a couple, but more importantly they were a great team (Simon is a developer and previously the founder of Django, his wife Nat is a designer who was previously at a UX consultancy).

Just because you're in a relationship it doesn't mean you should form a startup together unless both of you can add significant value to the business.
I searched scholar.google.com for the word law and the quoted phrase "reasonable belief". The results were interesting to see, it seems "reasonable belief" has a lot to do with a lot of laws.
Apple increases dominance of mobile shopping
The lack of a decent magnetosphere on mars is probably the biggest issue we have to tackle if we are going to send people there. It would require some pretty significant infrastructure on mars to shield us and all of our life resources. We would never really live ON mars. We would live inside of containers that happen to be somewhere on/in mars.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/as...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars#Magnetic_f...
AFAIK IBM, HP, and Dell use nothing but LSI controllers in their servers; that may be a hint.
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No, we just work quickly :).
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Sure, I did it by hand. Not sure it was really challenging enough to impress me, though.
Both your site and the screenshots from your app look beautiful. It looks like you've done great work. But I personally do not feel inclined to try your app because I do not see anything it does that I'm not already getting from Reeder, Flipboard, and Instapaper. For people in my position, is there anything you can tell me that will make me want to try your app?
Cool idea. Sounds like you can still send emails but not receive any until work.

I noticed that mobile email doesn't always help get more work done, unless you're the person asking the questions in the emails.

If a bb user is busy answering other people's questions... you're likely doing their work too. The culture of "we're waiting on you" that grows in an organization is the real enemy.

Interruptions are bad too. When someone shows up to interrupt and steal your attention indirectly they are saying "what you're doing is not as important as what I have to say". It might not be in those words, the act of interruption does that. Emails, calls, have to be managed.

Somehow I manage most days to do okay with zero sms notifications, zero email notifications on my phone and zero notifications on my computer. Nothing beeps.

There rarely are many problems that can't wait 1-2 hours. When it's urgent, someone emails, then calls. Poor planning on someone else's part doesn't make an emergency in my part. If people really need you they'll send you stuff a few hours in advance if not a few days. I reward pro-active behaviour and get back to them really fast.

Do any of you employ any strategies to get a better email/life balance?
> Wouldn’t you rather contribute to a cleaner environment with an electric car that looks like a Maserati than with an electric bubble car styled to look at home disgorging a dozen circus performers?

You would think - but I believe it was Freakonomics that did a story wherein they discovered that a large part of the Prius' success over other hybrids was due to its unique and recognizable styling. It's a very visible way to broadcast your eco-credibility.
Yes. The secret URL is rethinkdb.com
The key 61803398874 corresponds with the letter of the alphabet with a as 0. Enjoy!
No, the Tesla doesn't sell for "under $50k". It might cost some buyers that after a tax credit, but other buyers might not be eligible for that credit or the full amount of the credit.
FTA: "The SpaceX factory was used as a shooting location for Iron Man II and Musk has a cameo in the movie.[44] According to Jon Favreau, director of the Iron Man movies, Musk is the inspiration for Favreau's and Robert Downey Jr.'s interpretation of Tony Stark.[29]"

:)
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Let's start a union.
Here is the HN story about Commit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3386547
Hedging their bets I guess.

Common to donate to both the Republicans and the Democrats, because no matter who wins they're ingratiated to you.

Why supporting and opposing a piece of legislation makes sense I don't know
Very nice..more javascript goodies.
Amazing use of div layers and animation via jQuery.
I want to see them apply logic and reason otherwise it might be difficult for me to continue to view them as a credible source of technical information. It will be interesting to see what choice they make.