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One reason may be that it actually has interesting engineering aspects. The other one may have to do with some sort of self-validation: "Hey, Dropbox is a massive success, can I build something like this?". It's what usually happens to popular services like Twitter, GitHub - they all have had numerous "me too" attempts.
The extension "kbfiles" may do what you want:

http://kiln.stackexchange.com/questions/1873/how-do-you-use-...
Emcien, Atlanta, GA.

We're looking to hire two people to satisfy the following needs: Rails, sysadmin and C programmer.

We're a pattern analysis company based in Midtown, Atlanta. We've recently hired a sales team and we've got plenty of work to do.

Our apps are Rails-based, but are anything but typical. We do some computationally heavy stuff and basically use Rails apps as a presentation layer. We're usually dealing with huge datasets and need someone that has a strong sense of what Rails is doing "underneath." ActiveRecord behaves differently when you're dealing with 60,000+ records at a time.

We need a C programmer to back up our chief scientist. Operations research experience is a huge plus.

We use several AWS tools including EC2, S3, SNS, and RDS (We also use Heroku for several apps). We need someone to manage our EC2 environment. This probably wouldn't amount to a full-time responsibility, but we do need someone to "own" this aspect of our business. We'd like to have a C programmer + UNIX admin combo but if you can fill our Rails and sysadmin needs, that works too.

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iOS can use USB over the dock port, but is subject to strict approval and licensing from Apple which is why there are very few dock port accessories.

Meanwhile since Android devices just use microUSB, there's no licensing involved.
@jteo: We don't yet have the means to sponsor non-EU/UK candidates. If you have an EU passport or otherwise have the legal right to work in the UK, we'd be happy to hear from you.
Or just leave it in place and simply not update it.
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The alternatives try to address the biggest problem of Dropbox: the Dropbox company knows the content of my files. That in turn means that various US agencies can browse and analyze my files without my knowledge, approval and a warrant.
What drew me to this article was it's discussion of the tactics a unorganized group can do and try all at once. A neat superposition of several topics.

Like a glorified case of the wisdom of crowds.
It's more an issue of openness rather than one of forward thinking. Apple just doesn't want unapproved hardware connecting to their devices. They also want royalties from anyone who DOES get their approval. They'd even block audio hacks like this if they could.

Once a company gains too much control over the consumer, innovation suffers.
I applied to one company based on the posts below and they were very prompt in getting back and was eventually offered an internship there, so yeah, they do take this pretty seriously.
Not everyone is from the US. If you are from the US then I agree, don't use it.
I think it's part of a general push by the bleeding edge away from hosted-cloud solutions and towards controlling bits of the stack themselves. dropbox is a good candidate for replacement because storing a few personal documents to sync with your various devices sounds like something you should be doing for yourself, unlike, say, email which is manifestly harder to do right.
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Sadly, these just don't look very good unless you're on a Mac and using a touchpad.
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If the vocabulary doesn't exist(or isn't predominant), it becomes hard to point out the distinctions. Certainly, humans recognized from pre-civilized times that there were children, but expectations of children were going to be different - in a smaller tribal society, for instance, each one would be a unique person.

A more recent concept is the idea of the "teenager" in western culture - people who aren't adults and aren't children either.
bup uses the git repository format (packfiles) but splits big files into chuck to avoid this problem. Also does de-duplication at the chunk level.

https://github.com/apenwarr/bup/#readme
https://github.com/apenwarr/bup/blob/master/DESIGN#L92
We post on most of these threads and our batting average for hiring from them is MLB respectable. We have below-average turnover; we're just growing. Every single thread we've posted on has introduced us to candidates we were thrilled to talk to.

HN is our single best hiring vector, both in quantity and quality.

I think you can safely assume that people are getting hired from these threads.

(I think posting the job thread on weekends is counterproductive and don't post in those months).
The Kindle store is where I made 99% of my book purchases last year, so I based the decision off my own buying preferences. Also, it's much easier to publish a book through Amazon than Apple (at least from what I've read).

If you sign up for KDP Select, where people with Amazon Prime and a Kindle can rent your book for free, then the digital version has to exclusively be on Kindle for 90 days.

As for stats, the book has only been out a week and a half so the data isn't that interesting. Plus, I've yet to really make a big marketing push behind it. In a few months I'll have another post sharing some stats and what I've learned.
I got an offer (well, sort of a [paid] trial period type offer, but I believe it was a good fit for both parties) from a company that posted here a few months ago. I ended up declining it and taking a safer option. Kind of regret not taking that offer, actually.
The adoption rate is expected, people should stop complain about the python3 situation when it's not that bad.

http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-semi-regular-reminder-...
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Ahh true... That book is really deep. I love it.

Unrelated comment, but I feel compelled to mention... I just moved to SF and read that book right when I got here, only to find out that Pirsigs son (who is one of the main characters of the book) was stabbed and killed at roughly 22 (I am 25) a few blocks from where I work. For some reason, that story really affected me and has changed the way I look at life. I highly recommend the book to anyone in any field.

Being an engineer amplifies its meaning.
Git clients exist for iOS, Android, Windows, and Linux. There's 98% of the computing world right there.
Coming from the opposite side, I wonder if there's an "anti-hoarding" disorder; feeling that most things (physical or virtual) in one's possession is a liability, a weight that would be better off discarded unless they are absolutely necessary. Almost everything I own adds to my psychological debt and I feel a weight being lifted off my shoulders whenever I can get rid of stuff, documents, files, emails or anything else attached to me.
Any tips on how to best market a self-published book?
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Right?! What an awesome way to kick off 2012.
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Developmentally, children have no alternative; that's all they have to wire their brains (from learning to walk to learning to talk and on). Part of the things you learn as young person is to delay gratification, and think before you act because it pays off in the end. Adults are perfectly justified to use that acquired skill. Overanalysing is usually pointless, but the opposite, not doing so at all is ... childish.
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I agree with this assessment. There are very, very, very significant differences between the brains of children and adults that should profoundly affect the way we approach them. I don't argue that we're doing education correctly now, but to blindly treat children as adults would be a mistake.

As to the author's experiences teaching himself French—the plural of anecdote is not data.
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The rollout of the top H1 is downright painful (locked up the browser with 100%+ CPU usage on a C2D MBP 13") in Firefox 12.0a1.

Everything else works though.

It's all good in Chrome 16.0.912.63 on the above machine though.
It seems that the thesis that Stone abandoned (according to your third link) was about love in marriage, not about the increasing awareness of children's nature. He may have had multiple theses, not all of which he abandoned.

The idea that Western societies' perception of children went from "miniature adult" to "distinct category of human" in the 16th and 17th century is not an unusual theory among Renaissance scholars. It might not be the most accurate description of what happened, but its credibility is not as suspicious as you seem to think it is. Art historians regularly appeal to this theory, not only in English contexts, but also when talking about Italian art and the rest of Renaissance.

My sister (an art history major) wrote an honors paper on Titian a couple of years ago, focusing on how the artist's portrayal of children changed over the decades. There are transitions that cannot be explained simply by saying "He was just trying to paint more realistically". For example, the context, setting, composition, props, etc. of this painting (http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=c&a=p&#...), when analyzed with the usual tools of art historians and compared to other paintings of children, suggest that at least part of the transition involved a shift in the concept of a child. The way in which similar portrayals spread throughout Europe in the following decades also supports the theory that this new concept was being rapidly adopted and developed. (I'm not an art historian so I can't explain this very well, but I'm sure there are many scholarly sources for this.) Artists might not have invented the new concept of a child, but they were certainly responding to it -- and Renaissance artists were often the first to respond to the latest philosophical developments of their times.
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I guess "Lasting Impact" awards are a much better metric than "Best Paper" awards. There is evidence that best paper awards are not actually indicative of a paper's future impact (if defined as the number of citations):

Judging quality remains a difficult task for the initial reviewers, but also for the best paper award committee. Despite its honest efforts, the best paper award committee has not selected papers that are cited more often than other papers. In other words, the best paper award committee did not perform better than random chance. From this viewpoint, Desney Tan’s claim that “The Best of CHI awards represent the top one percent of research submissions to CHI” appears too optimistic.

http://www.bartneck.de/publications/2009/scientometricAnalys...

My own rant on this topic:
http://raphaelwimmer.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/best-paper-dem...
Yeah, this highlights another point—the animations (and the effort required to view them) can be so distracting that this may not even be an effective way to educate me about the product.
Well, that pretty much explains why people have a hard time "getting" music theory. Gibberish+Goobeltygooksus7
Where do I get similar info about capacity for other types of visas?
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How did you come across these high-quality editors? Just curious.
There is absolutely shame in "good enough". Mainly that created by weaselly coworkers trying to get ahead and establish technical superiority in the eyes of the non-techie management. These people never write any code themselves but are the first to start WTF'ing really loudly when someone else completes something. Usually the volume and banality of things programmers complain about identify their technical competence, with the bottom of the barrel being complaints about whitespace and formatting. "WTF! Bob put TWO spaces instead of ONE all after method names all over the ENTIRE file! whaaah!" Yes, it becomes this petty with some people.

So a smart programmer will strive for 'quick perfection', establish respect in some other way to counter this, or if they really want to sink that low, fight back with similar tactics. Smart programmers can also create review traps if they can guess what colleagues will attack them on.

Its also good if you beat up another programmer on the first day so the others know not to mess with you ;).
Yeah, I pushed it a bit with that one for sure, but I just couldn't resist, haha
What next -- a three-button mouse or a punched card reader?

(Let me unpack that: the iPad -- with multitouch screen and accelerometer and gyro -- provides a unique user interface of its own. While this accessory is fundamentally the n'th generation descendant of the 1970s console game controller. I'm kind of annoyed, because if this catches on it will potentially cost us a raft of new user interface innovations by allowing lazy back-ports of console titles instead of forcing developers to confront the inherent strengths and weaknesses of an entirely new and different way of doing things. If I wanted a console with a traditional controller I'd buy a PS3 or an XBox360 ...)
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FYI that's "Doozer"
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I believe you're describing Zen Buddhism.
Very much baby steps in jazz music theory, but this will probably be helpful to some people!
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I can't give advice from experience for at least another month or two, but I'll post a conversation I've been having with a successful author on book marketing next week.
My personal opinion on this post is that it does not fit on HN. I don't understand why this post would gratify any hacker's intellectual curiosity, therefore, this post is off-topic, and does not meet the standards of HN. It might be beneficial for you to read the Hacker News Guidelines. Here is the link: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
yeah, as I said in the post, it's Jazz Theory 101. But anyone coming from a classical music theory background will hopefully find it a helpful insight.
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Since when are a bunch of pictures of desks a moral issue?
That makes sense, but in this case the blog was hosted on Tumblr. Free, no need to worry about vulnerabilities, and virtually no spam.

I wonder if there is a simple open-source tool that can convert WordPress blogs into static sites for archival. Like, just crawl the site, save everything as static HTML, and write some .htaccess rules to replicate WordPress's permalink structure. Everything will remain exactly where it was, except there won't be any vulnerabilities and you can't accept comments anymore.

But I suppose the author really is the kind of person who likes clean desks -- the kind of person who cannot stand the sight of no-longer-maintained things being scattered around his part of the Internet. (cf. SoftwareMaven's comment about virtual hoarding above.) If that's the case, I can understand, because I'm a bit like that, too.
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I don't see any reason they can't add this later. Get something that works first, then make it better.
Ironically, the situation is very similar to math.

It's relatively easy to read music theory notation, so that the Gibberish and Goobeltygookus make sense, similar to learning mathematical notation. (I personally believe this is easier than learning the alphabet, but that's a different story)

However, understanding what the abstractions mean is difficult. The difference between memorizing formulas and intuiting patterns. Maybe this is no harder than understanding the abstractions behinds words.

Like most "hard" things, the largest reason for difficulty is one of obtaining persistent practice.

If it were common to sing piano music using theory words rather than a single "lalala", for example, or if our language made use of specific tonal changes (up a second v down a major third), or if everyone learned the theory at the age where we now learn the alphabet, the gibberish goobeltygook would seem "easy".
If we're taking the organic model, what it was died. It clearly wasn't profitable/rewarding enough for the old owner, perhaps if you don't change it that will be true for the new owner.
If you're interested in another tech writer's book experience, check out Philip Greenspun's "The Book Behind the Book": http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/dead-trees/story .
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That's because if a programmer is bad, work doesn't get done, and people notice immediately. But if a manager is bad, the subordinates often manage to get work done despite the manager, and the bad manager is in turn more likely to have a bad manager who doesn't recognize the on-going failure.
enjoyed reading your comment, but if one is drawing too many similarities between their work environment and prison, it could be time to find/create a new work environment.
Right, and that makes perfect sense. But haven't you seen representatives point to people like this and write them off as "bad apples"? When a large enough portion of the population deliberately ignores a law in protest it can't just be the end of it. That's only part one. Disobedience as a protest isn't enough. There has to be a second part where we somehow communicate to those in power why we act this way and why things need to change. Without that second part we're all just a bunch of hippie, counter culture, bad apples as far as they're concerned.
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Just watch this classic clip from Glengarry Glen Ross:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI

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AcademicWorks has hired two people from posting on HN. We consistently find our best candidates from these threads. I have a memo to post at the first of every month, because we are always looking for talented engineers.
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Yes, the name comes from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraggle_Rock#Doozers
This was posted here a few weeks ago, but at the time it was Mac-only. Now it works on Mac, Linux, and Windows. I assume this is the reason for the re-post.
Actually it's a perfectly succinct and easy notation. Not many musicians have a "hard time" getting it, except for those that never cared to study it.

In fact, in the history of jazz piss poor black kids that never went to school managed to master music theory just fine. And an enormous amount of people all around the world.

The particular example you mention (chord naming) has something like 1/100 the difficulty of something like regular expressions.

And it's several orders of magnitude easier than actually learning to play your instrument. Which also millions of people manage to do.
For me, I find myself spending a lot more time on G+. I'm having more discussions and really finding G+ so much more awesome overall.
Sure, you can turn that clock back. Living in different countries or cultures can help break down perception, exposing misconceptions and the fundamental beliefs you took for granted. In a more dramatic fashion, LSD and a few other substances, as well as strong spiritual and near-death experiences can lead to a sudden shift in perspective. After such an experience, you might find yourself spending a lot more mental effort observing the world around you, as the filters you've relied on are removed from your field of view.

It might even be observed that abuse of certain substances, such as alcohol, could at least temporarily reverse a person's level of mental development (Woot, happy new year!).

It's far from being as tested and documented a science as developmental biology and psychology, but there are various commonly practiced methods for disrupting the progress of that mental development clock from a smooth arc to a more tangled shape.
As a gamer I can't help but wonder, why is this the missing link in IOS gaming? It seems like a step backwards. There are some really fantastic games on this platform that have made use of the on-device controls and the ones that don't well they seem to be uninventive and poorly created clones/ports of console and computer games. I can't speak for everyone, but what I like about the IOS gaming experience is I can quickly and conveniently take out my device for short bursts. I can't imagine waiting for a meeting and pulling out a controller. In most circumstances if I wanted a controller experience, I think I'd rather wait to play on my console. The problem here isn't that this is a dumb invention, it's not, it's really cool, and I applaud the hack, but I question if this is the "missing link" when there are fantastic and well controlled games already available on this platform.
I love the http://www.groupme.com scrolling stuff. It was done tastefully and to great effect.
if this type of thing interests you, i also wrote in detail how i did mine here: http://www.startupsopensourced.com/2011/05/01/startups-open-...
Agree 100%. The whole thing feels backwards, a lazy bandaid.

What's next, using a bridle to control a car?
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