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This article is a little vague.

Personally as a UK Taxpayer I don't really care whether the desktop PCs and downing street or Whitehall run Windows , Linux or Mac they could run Haiku for all I care.

What I am more concerned about as more government functions can be interfaced with online is whether this will be done using the most standard and open data formats etc possible.

If I need to buy a specific piece of proprietary software to submit my tax information online or if all applications for public sector jobs are distributed in the latest MS Word format that I can't open without buying a new version of Windows and office then that is something I at least potentially care about.
Sounds like you need to find some new roommates. Surrounding yourself with losers is only going to bring you down.
I'd never heard of the lead molding set, but I did have a set for injection molding of plastic. And yes, I did burn myself.
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> I turned 37, so I'm probably one of the oldest guys around here

Nope! You're not... Keep pushing hard :)
doesn't HN do that already? or is that only for exact match links?
Apart from it not being ready production-ready, I find the syntax confusing and overly engineered. Perhaps I'm just dense. However, as a programmer with 5+ years of experience, it feels rather off that I can't look at some of the Opa code and understand what is happening.

Haskell providers a lower barrier of entry.

That being said, it's different. I wish them the best as the more options available to a programmer, the better.
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This is the same as adopting Agile. Just because you use some sort of Agile process doesn't mean your project will all of the sudden be fixed. Agile is generally well suited towards a group of skilled individuals.
Interesting.. I think we might be saying something similar.

I think I've noticed most people cringe from the word discipline. They feel building discipline like it's some life / breath sucking black hole that kills all creativity and freedom. Maybe to procrastinate.

Wherever I've found anyone with:

- academic discipline (brilliant in a field of research)

- professional discipline (great at their job)

- social discipline (knows how to get things done with difficult people)

- physical discipline (exercises)

- dietetic discipline (eats well)

- emotional discipline (well balanced)

- mental discipline (don't suffer from analysis paralysis)

- spiritual discipline (can take the good from everything, learn how to meditate/focus, get into flow easier)

I find one amazing thing. We call them successful at what they do. It's tied to their discipline. Discipline of creating, maintaining and building on good habits.

In a way, discipline leaves you free to create and succeed.
Wow, this is a terrible idea. Pointing all your domains to a service you don't control with no formal, legal contract on what they can and can't do with the domains you point at them?
I thought this at first, but if you look at a bracket like the one in the article on Amazon[1], it seems that they are mounted correctly, since amazon describes its depth as 19.5", and a height of 13".

Those brackets are different than what I would call standard shelving brackets[2], which should be mounted with the long side against the wall.

[1]:http://www.amazon.com/Black-Steel-Shelf-Bracket-19-1/dp/B001...

[2]:http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/BATTALION-Utility-Shelf-Bra...
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This is the article I based it on: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.ha....

Note that the expert used in the article is Bruce Schneier.
That one has been mostly abandoned by the author, for one that is regularly updated take a look at https://github.com/laullon/gitx which is a fork of the original GitX.
http://www.springframework.net/

Spring handles a lot for you, but learning to use it and (especially) debug/troubleshoot it is like learning another framework on top of .NET. It even has its own language (called SpEL).
Thank you good sir, wish more people shared their quality notes like you!
Lubuntu - Ubuntu rich debian repositories without annoying Unity desktop. LXDE is a familiar menu-driven desktop - and fast.

I am a Java 7 AI developer running a multi-monitor development desktop, a server for svn / jenkins continuous integration, an alpha production server, and two linux laptops. I also have a Windows 7 desktop and laptop for testing, and network everything with Samba. Computers range from single core 512MB RAM to four-core 16GB RAM. I use cron jobs and rsync for cross-server backups and also replicate the most important files on Ubuntu One - the cloud backup service.

Lubuntu is fastest for my Java development. I keep 7 virtual desktops on dual monitors and like the familiar menus and taskbars for application switching and monitoring. Years ago I was a Windows NT developer but Linux is much cheaper and much easier to debug via open source. In the last decade I have used Red Hat, SUSE, KDE, Gnome and Ubuntu. I have only one machine left to convert from Ubuntu to Lubuntu with a new install.
Well ok, but someone sufficiently skilled could still hand-write code in C, using pthreads and SSE instructions, that will beat the fortran code every single time, because those constructs just aren't available in fortran and it's hard to claim that the compiler's always going to be better (as a Java guy most of the time, trust me, I'd love to believe it).
Thanks! This is the best intro I've seen. Maybe now I finally have a hope of figuring out how to use the blasted thing...
Before 9/11, my little sister built a cloud chamber for the science fair. This required using a small vile of Uranium, which my dad was able to obtain for her from a nearby university. This didn't require any extraordinary connections or security clearance. I think he just phoned up a professor and drove to the university to meet him. This was probably 2000 or 2001. I suspect this wouldn't be possible now, after 9/11, but I haven't tried.
I never imagined myself as a "customer" of a programming language
Another slippery slope argument from the libertarians. /sarcasm
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Indeed. I've been using source control of various flavors for 15 years now, and that "Trees" section is completely unparseable by me. Why are there 3 of them? Why do I care that there are 3 of them? What do I use them for? If I don't use them all directly, why are we talking about them?

Further, why are we talking in terms of the actual command-line commands? Surely a version control system as popular as this has tools at least as good as TortoiseSVN so that I don't have to actually type commands into a command prompt like some bearded guy from the '70s. I'd much prefer you tell me the name of the popular Windows/Mac client and walk me through the workflow I'll actually use on a day-to-day basis.
"f I need to buy a specific piece of proprietary software to submit my tax information online or if all applications for public sector jobs are distributed in the latest MS Word format that I can't open without buying a new version of Windows and office then that is something I at least potentially care about."

Thats the point of this Microsofts lobbying, lock-in. Can you today require open documents from your government? Here in Sweden, no. You get .doc most of the time, if it is a local government then perhaps a PDF.
From a CPI calculator: $50 in 1951 has the same buying power as $435 in 2011.

That's a heck of an expensive toy!
The joys of iPhone autocorrect :) thanks.
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I've read that most of this money came from retiree savings, which are rapidly running out. Furthermore, the younger generation doesn't have such savings, yet alone the population, to keep such a thing going.

In a sense, this system of internal borrowing in a hidden tax. While it of course is not mandated, it's required in order to keep things going smoothly.
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It is only for exact matching links.
For those who still sit 8+ hours a day: Work on the boss or setup a budget for an adjustable stand up desk. Having a fixed height requires that you adjust if you want to add a floor mat, wear different shoes, or want to throw a treadmill down. And sometimes, after standing for hours, you just want to sit down. Spending $800 dollars is justified for anything that is used 8 hours a day.
Thanks! I may still do that, if I makes sense to do so and I can distribute it easily enough.
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I thought the same thing, but then I realized it's not much different from a kid asking for a new videogame console on the launch date, including all the accessories. A tricked out PS3 would run you over $600.
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This is a good article; I think his suggestions are mostly spot on.

Part of my current position is to sit on interview committees. I think I can sum up points 6-11 by simply saying: be interesting and engage the other people at the table.

Interview work is mostly boring drudge work with little payoff for the interviewer. I only remember the interviews where the person being interviewed had something interesting to say. It won't always mean you get the job but you've got a better chance than if we can't remember you five minutes after you leave the room.

Also, don't tell us about your cats on your resume. Seriously, just don't.
Quite possibly; all of the Macs I have on hand already have Xcode installed so I can't check. But I don't think that's a big issue; if you're developing software you're almost certainly going to want to install Xcode and all the accompanying dev tools anyway.
I'm actually from Europe (The Netherlands), but it is not the price of gas that appeals to me, but the flexibility of a gas stove.

I do a lot of stir-fry cooking with a wok and the only way those things work well is if there is a blazing inferno below them. I also like to use cast-iron pans for grilling, because they hold heat well and don't cool off as quickly as aluminium cookware, which helps a lot with big pieces of meat and fish.

I must admit that the cleanliness and beauty of induction stoves does appeal to me. A combination stove where half of it is induction (for boiling water, cooking pasta etc.) and half is gas for more heavy-duty work would be perfect.
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so, that's why first time entrepreneurs need interested advisors / investors! they will provide some lacking experience / skills.

the article is really not that pessimistic! :)
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I bought one of these and it works great:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S89843460/#/S0984...

They consider it a bar table, but it works perfectly as a standing desk.
This article doesn't really answer why the launch is worth remembering. It does ask us to imagine a time before smart phones, though.
I found it pretty helpful with the use of the word "tree" (got it from http://progit.org/). But I definitely need to add some kind of glossary to the page.
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It matters A LOT if you develop apps. Getting things to work consistently on different processors, screen dimensions, buttons, etc, takes a lot of effort.

It was JavaME's greatest nightmare (one could never be sure an app would work at all on different devices). Luckily, since there's no JCP and vendor-specific packages, at least that part of the fragmentation was solved...
FWIW, Pandora is just as vulnerable.
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they guys over from BeagleBoard.org (TI) currently build a node.js based framework for scripting (including "cape" support, their name of expansion boards)

https://github.com/jadonk/bonescript/blob/master/bonescript/...
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For the most part you can, sometimes you will get a .doc it's almost always available in another format or it's an old enough .doc format that opening it is not an issue.

You can also grab lots of data from parliament in XML format and people have done some cool things with it (http://www.theyworkforyou.com/) for example.

There's lots of government depts that can be interacted with using various XML formats and they will provide you with all the schemas you need.
Lesser known fact. Most homes contain alpha radiation sources through their use in smoke detectors.
http://www.epa.gov/radiation/sources/smoke_alarm.html

That being said, radiological material regulations are very strict these day. Back when I was working at a lab at school, I had to go through several days of safety courses before I could even be in the same room as some very weak alpha particle sources. The work I was doing did not utilize them, and the whole time the sources were locked in a cabinet.

It amazes me that this playset contained beta and gamma sources. Hopefully they were extremely weak; but still the radiation accumulates. (alpha particle sources are really only dangerous if ingested or inhaled, since outside the body, air shields against them)
So HN already does this and it does it exactly the right way: if you submit something which already exists, it upvotes it instead of resubmitting it, which is exactly what you want.

If you want to submit a link (or upvote it) anyway, what is the added value of this bookmarklet?
Same as getting out of the bed every morning...

If they stop offering their service, just change your DNS record, and viola. I do not see how this could be a dangerous to you.
It doesn't seem like it would be terribly difficult to port to PHP; why not do it yourself?
i grew up with a copy of 'the boy electrician' that my father born in 1921 had. it showed how to build an xray machine from 'commonly available' parts. the only warning was a brief note that long exposure caused blood vessels to break which looked like bruising. though this warning is missing from the 1913 version. i do know that the plans were removed from later 1930ish versions.

i'd say that there were at least 1-2 other experiments that would be discouraged due to health and safety these days.

http://danielwebb.us/projects/pd_tech_books/
Why not a git repo on Github? So people can contribute.
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I did that too, and used to worry about it. Then I saw a video of a guy messing around with a giant tub of liquid mercury, talking about how it's not all that dangerous in that form.
Amazon.com sells Uranium ore: http://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Inc-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XX... or get it from United Nuclear: http://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath...
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You can buy uranium ore off Amazon. I'm not sure if it's the right stuff for a cloud chamber, but it looks like it:

http://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Inc-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XX...
Doesn't Canonical already have proprietary closed source projects, the server behind Ubuntu One for example?
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I'd probably need it less if I actually did exercise! :/
Quite right. Specifically, rules engines stored in a database can be very cool. Just recognize that the rules are code and use an appropriate interface and management (i.e, Prolog or something similar).
Don't worry, the meds give me a thick skin ;)
Doesn't it evaporate fairly easily, though? And can't it also be absorbed through the skin?
The number of bytes in a sprited file can be smaller than the sum of the bytes of each file individually. So the best option might be to inline the sprite :)
Your landing page should say that this requires Mootools.
You should tell us what those limitations are :)
Interesting, thanks. Do you think one could use only one of the two narrow shelves and put a large screen on it? Can it support the weight? That way you could have keyboard and screen at different heights.
Learning to stop yourself is a hard skill.

I worked from home for 3-4 year in 2000-2004. 7 days a week, 16 hour days with the odd day off to catch up on sleep quickly became a norm because no one told me I had to stop.

I found better balance finding some time at a coworking space. The act of leaving the house and being surrounded by other similar entrepreneurs helps a lot.
> Netflix instant in the US is really only worth it if you like "B movies", or just shit movies.

This really depends on your taste. If you are looking for recent films and blockbusters, Netflix isn't really a great choice. If you are into documentaries, foreign film, silent film, and certain types of television (sci-fi and comedies come to mind), then Netflix has a large amount of content.
Surely you know that 'p' in relation to video is an abbreviation for pixels. And 1080p video isn't the equivalent of specifying "font-size: 1080px" in your transcript's CSS.
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This is a question that is rather close to my heart: I do run an ice cream factory (well, a small sorbet shop) and my tendency is toward complete openness about methods and ingredients. We in fact had the Ben and Jerry's flavor research team stop by a couple months ago, and happily gave them a multi-hour kitchen tour. I don't think there were any questions we shied away from.

It's certainly a debatable business practices, and makes some of my partners uncomfortable. I think that we stand much more to gain from establishing open communication than we have to lose. Ben and Jerry's has a lot of knowledge, but very different constraints than we do. I'm not worried that they will steal our techniques of juicing pomegranates by hand, and while they were intrigued by our one-quart-at-a-time production, it's far from obvious how it would scale to their needs. We by contrast can learn a lot about their packaging, marketing, and distribution.

It may just be that I'm not a great business person. I'm much more excited by making something wonderful available to the world, and resent having to use price discrimination to make it possible to do so. We have started charging for kitchen tours to the public ($45), and while we've met some wonderful Google engineers, it makes me sad to think of all the people excluded because of the cost.[1] I'd prefer a world where people build upon others' successes to ever increasing heights, rather than one where everyone constantly reinvents the same trade-secret protected wheel.

In response to Dan's comment below, perhaps we run in different circles, but I have not found that smart people hoard information. Rather, the smartest people I know tend to be unable to stop talking about whatever they are currently working on, where they are currently stuck, and when they last had a breakthrough. But maybe this is just self-selection: if the truly smart ones don't talk, I guess I'd never know it.

[1] If anyone in the Bay Area is interested in a $5 shorter version of our kitchen tour, we're running one this weekend: http://www.meetup.com/SanFranciscoFoodies/events/45091172/?a...
It's an AGPL runtime with an option for a paid license to make the AGPL go away.
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- Invest in a very expensive espresso/coffee machine.

If you don't want to drop a ton of cash, but still want fast and delicious home-brewed coffee, then I would suggest getting an aeropress instead: http://www.amazon.com/Aerobie-AeroPress-Coffee-Espresso-Make...
I've been working from home since August 2010.

The part where you get up on time, shower, shave, dress well, etc, is very important, as the author says. It's psychological - you're gearing yourself up for a day of work. If there is no physical differentiation between a work day and an off-day, the two will start to blend together in icky ways. For this reason, even though in general I am a very lazy person, I always do this. I always clean up, always dress properly, and have a part of my home I only use for work. I also have meetings every day on Skype, so if I look like a hobo people will know about it.

On the other hand, I do clean and sometimes cook during the work day. I make sure to get my work done, but since I'm at home I try to get some mundane things done so I don't have to do them when I'm off. I work for a place that encourages a balance of life and work, so this is more in line with what others at my workplace are doing (ie, I'm not slacking relative to my coworkers).

Being social is still something I am struggling with. Since I work alone and I don't have nerd friends, having someone to talk tech with is kinda missing from my life right now. The tech scene in my city is good but I just haven't been taking advantage of it by going to events and meeting people. In general, being around people is less frequent now, so it's more distracting when it happens. I have been sort of letting this happen rather than trying to fix it.
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Yup. It's actually part of a short story series called RealAcad Monday's every alternate week.

Other posts are generally longer and more descriptive. :)
"corporate leaders (e.g. You)"

I'm honored, and confused, that you would consider me a corporate leader.

Like I said, I see your point. And if you look at my comment, it was in the form of a question, not an imperative.
> C lets you allocate blocks of memory

It doesn't even let you do that -- those things are external library calls.
Really? You don't know what a repository is? Or are you just being hypothetically ignorant?

I believe that somebody googling git usage is going to be a little bit conversant in the topic of version control.
I didn't notice them. Was it because AdBlocker?
I just submitted the actual schedule instead of this useless blogspam.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3443405
It really depends on what level of Economics understanding you currently possess. For a complete newbie to economics, I would definitely recommend:

http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-N-Gregory-Mankiw/...

It is a solid book, and you cannot go wrong with it. However, if you want a more thorough understanding of economics, with the mathematics laid out etc. then there are other more advanced economics text for that. Also, I think, given the topics you highlighted, you want to understand more about Macroeconomics, as such these MIT lectures might help:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/

Also, remember is Economics, like in any subject, there is wide diversity of viewpoints. The best way to choose a side, I feel, is to really look deep into the a topic, delve a bit into the math and make informed decisions as to what gels with your point of view. Ping me if you need any more resources
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I...don't know about that.

It's a computer, cool, but I think that most of the people who are looking for "fun" in computers are already finding it in things like the Arduino.

Something I will hope for is that this disrupts some hobbyist economics. Things like the IOIO board from sparkfun (plugs into android, gives you 50 GPIO pins) are still really expensive ($50).

The arduino is too...$30 for a board that doesn't have wifi or any way of connecting to a network without an external card (shield).

The real holy grail of this stuff will be an arduino or a raspi with a wifi chip in it that costs $30 or less.

These little computers are all good, but when you have to tether them to something or buy an expensive add on to make them see the rest of the world, it kindof ruins the form factor for me.
The value is IMHO that you can access the comments of an existing entry within 2 clicks. Actually that's why I wrote this thing and how I use it personally. Found an interesting GitHub project? See what Hacker News says about it.
gcc also has -Wsign-compare option that warns about such comparisons.