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With two toddlers around, a case is a must with my iPhone.
This information could be obtained by users/consumer review companies by reverse engineering (or purely testing) products to make numerical comparisons of various properties.

In the case of mattresses, the size of springs isn't as relevant as the amount of sag in the bed when a 70kg person is lying on it. A more advanced measure could be the evenness of weight distribution across the mattress. These measurements are unlikely to be performed by consumers because of the time and effort required. However product review companies could generate revenue from selling consumers detailed comparisons/analysis of products.
The best advice I could give is, whenever someone you manage brings you a problem, resist taking it away and solving it for them. Instead, give them some pointers on how they might solve it, but leave ownership of the solution with them. This is hard to do consistently, particularly when it would take you less time to do the work yourself, but the long-term effect is that you grow a team of self-sufficient people, who only bring you problems when they have tried hard to solve them themselves and genuinely need your help. This in turn means your time is freed up to work on the most important things.
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You don't need an MBA. You already know what you need to do. For every conversation you have, concentrate on one thing: being an active listener. Focus on that like you would focus on a technical problem.
The names are both equally original (e.g. stolen from Douglas Adams).

The packaging guide is fantastic, and will be heavily linked to.
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Agile Coaching helped quite a lot (even if you don't use Agile)[1].

A CTO of a very successful startup on the valley recommended me Difficult Conversations[2].

As long as you remember that empowering other people to do great work is very valuable in itself (as it is a multiplier), you can motivate yourself into getting to understand this side of software development.

It is not only important for tech leads, but for CTOs, and open source project leads.

Good luck on your new job!

[1] http://pragprog.com/book/sdcoach/agile-coaching

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Difficult-Conversations-Discuss-What-M...
"After this experience, it was hard to understand that the software engineering community did not recognize the benefits of adopting a high-level, type-safe language instead of C." -- N. Wirth

I suspect that the good programmers did notice the benefits of a strict statically typed language, however the cost was probably deemed to be too high at the time. Because C was a "mid-level language" and stayed close to the metal it could efficiently use the limited resources of pre-LSI (let alone VLSI) computers; effectively C allowed you to break the rules if you wanted or needed to. These days obviously the performance difference is generally less than a few percent and hence can be largely ignored.
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The first time I heard of Ron Paul was when he was basically the only one who stood up for Wikileaks in Congress and defended them when everyone else was calling them traitors and terrorists. I really liked that and I've been following him since:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM20w0jHH8A
John Mauldin frequently links to / references / includes excerpts from STRATFOR in his own newsletters. This is just an excerpt, but should give anyone curious a sense of the quality:

http://www.johnmauldin.com/images/uploads/pdf/mwo082511.pdf
My valuation of my phone has nothing to do with my clumsiness.
"if the cartridge is inserted and is 'full' of toner the printer assumes the cartridge is new and it resets the counter for the typical output"

Exactly; I've done the same trick with Brother toner cartridges for quite awhile now by using black electrician's tape. The sensor is just an optical fill check, there is no communication going on between between the toner cartridge and printer (although the cost of the official cartridge could make you think it's capable).
Your linked article has some merit, it isn't something to dismiss out-of-hand. However, there's a significant flaw in it, where he discusses how Obama was excused but Paul isn't:

Obama did it with Jeremiah Wright, openly grappling with the past toxic association, owning it, explaining it. Paul has not had the wherewithal or presence of mind to do that. Indeed, he has not even named the association, the first step to disowning it.

But this is false, he did address it four years ago. I've linked and quoted that statement below. [1]

Also, Sullivan goes on to say "And unlike Obama with Wright, Paul got money from these newsletters."

You'll have to make your own value judgments here, but I think Obama comes out worse. It's true that Paul profited. However, it seems clear to me that Obama's relationship with the real perpetrator (Wright, in his case) was far closer than Paul's. Obama chose Wright to baptize his daughters, and used Wright's ideas for the title of his book The Audacity of Hope. This make me believe that Obama had a close, respectful relationship with Wright, and that some of Wrights ideas molded Obama's own. None of these things can be said of Ron Paul with respect to those newsletters.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/01/08/idUS233377+08-Jan-...

"The quotations in The New Republic article are not mine and do
not represent what I believe or have ever believed. I have never
uttered such words and denounce such small-minded thoughts.

"In fact, I have always agreed with Martin Luther King, Jr. that
we should only be concerned with the content of a person's character,
not the color of their skin. As I stated on the floor of the U.S.
House on April 20, 1999: 'I rise in great respect for the courage and
high ideals of Rosa Parks who stood steadfastly for the rights of
individuals against unjust laws and oppressive governmental policies.'

"This story is old news and has been rehashed for over a decade.
It's once again being resurrected for obvious political reasons on the
day of the New Hampshire primary.

"When I was out of Congress and practicing medicine full-time, a
newsletter was published under my name that I did not edit. Several
writers contributed to the product. For over a decade, I have
publically taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention
to what went out under my name."
I have an old Brother HL-1440 that doesn't work like this. I think what happened is that at some point Brother was financially forced to operate like its competitors.
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I think this is the opposite of what happened. Python packaging works perfectly — operating systems and external packaging managers have no business managing python packages.
I really wouldn't hold up the Canadian mobile industry as better than the US. It's one of the few markets actually worse than the US (data, call charges, etc.).

The US has regional or urban carriers; often they're MVNO, or have some local infrastructure and use another big carrier for other areas.

They're mainly confined to the low end/poor/no credit market. Until recently, they barely had featurephones. Probably the big ones are Virgin Mobile, Boost Mobile, and MetroPCS.
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Ron Paul hasn't changed his views. But what has changed are the views of many Americans as to the importance of RP's views.

Before, talking about the Federal Reserve and Wall Street was boring.

Now, people are looking at the criminal behavior of those on Wall Street, and looking at the behavior of the Fed with a more critical eye.

And the only politician who was talking about this before things went askew, was Ron Paul.
Not to mention that makes link cycles impossible.
Or use a tether to prevent your iPhone from plummeting to its death http://gizmodo.com/kenu-highline/
I'm going to have to demand better evidence that you can't drop an iPhone (cased or naked) without breaking it.

The glass it's made of is not the same as, say, the kind you drink wine out of. Unfold a paper clip and try to scratch your iPhone. You'll fail miserably.

I know anecdotes are not the same as data, but I've heard so many "my iPhone is indestructible" stories like http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/switcher-hangout/237495-iph... that I'd love to see the results of an actual durability testing lab.
I use and have used an Otterbox case. VEry durable and not bulky at all. The 3G version was bulky, but their 4S version is sleek and not as heavy.

I dropped both iPhones numerous times on every type of surface there is. Without using an otterbox I'd be paying thru the nose for a new iPhone, as a friend of mine who doesn't use a case has done a few times.

Get heavy duty/durable case not a flimsy one you buy a the five dollar store!
I think where it gets muddy is multiple people working on and/or using the account on company time. If maintaining the account, updating contacts, etc was part of their regular job, this argument starts to make sense. That would be online with working on side projects on the job or with company resources.

If it was a "I'm too busy, here.. log in and grab his email" sort of thing, that seems more in line with the "you can use my phone" analogy.

Either way, I'm interested to see what their argument is and how it shakes out as this could impact quite a few other things.
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I don't know why he pushed you should learn "the popular one" so hard, unless he meant that ironically. There's no way to choose the most popular language from PHP, Ruby, and Python.

I do agree on books vs. blogs though. When I started learning Python as my first real language this summer the best source I ended up learning from was LPTHW[1] (I used the free online edition). I think a book like that is a good tool for learning a language, because it makes sure you hit on every important feature/concept in that language. However, I later bought a physical book for $30 about Django that didn't do anything except hold my hand and walk me through what could be a 20 minute Django tutorial on YouTube. Maybe it was just a bad book, but when it comes to learning a framework/stack, I think the documentation provided if you choose one of these so-called popular options will be plenty, and from there it's tinkering and screwing up that gets you there.

[1] http://learnpythonthehardway.org/
If people want to increase the scope of federal power to grant it a role in education or any other myriad of issues, then there is a clear process - pass a constitutional amendment granting it that power. For example, alcohol prohibition required an amendment yet somehow the war on drugs did not.
I too do not use a case with my iPhone. I had the original iPhone, which I had one of those film screen protectors on. My 3GS I never put those on. Never had a case on either. I've dropped each a handful of times on various surfaces, sat on them, etc... maybe I'm just lucky (could easily be), but I've never cracked or broken one. Really not worried about it. Picking up a 4S in a few days and I'm going to go caseless on it too. I even took my iPhone 3GS to Burning Man and used it as a quick camera and notepad out there (no talking of course). Didn't hurt it, despite everyone telling me the dust would kill it.

My Macbook Pro goes without any additional protection aside from my Crumpler backpack. I use the smart cover on my iPad 2, but it just feels to 'fit' it so well and acts well as a quick stand.
I literally tried as hard as I could to scratch the screen of my iPhone 3G after I retired it. Keys, paper clip, knife... the screen is unscratchable. Are your wife's car keys made of diamond?
Ask HN: What's your new years resolution?
Healthwise, i have the same cliche "cut down on smoking, excercise more" resolution!

business wise, i'm hoping to double our revenue/traffic for my website (link in profile) and maybe find an interested buyer if the price is right.

also to finish up and launch this other project i've been working and try and make that one a success too!
Form and design indeed holds value, and I couldn't agree more that the iPhone 4S is the sexiest piece of smartphone ever made (I have one myself and its appearance does appeal to me), but... I couldn't help noticing that it seems the author of the article and the people who share his opinion are the kind who'd pick up a smartphone for its outside rather than its utilitarian inside. This struck me as counterproductive.
I'm not a big Lisp fanboy, but I wonder why it wasn't considered an option for at least bootstrapping the compiler? I think even if no Lisp was available on their machines that hand coding one in assembly and then using that would have been much faster than other options (note: it's been 20+ years since my college Programming Languages class (where ironically I built a Lisp-1 in Pascal) so I may be mis-remebering my programming language history here)
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Indeed. I bought an Otterbox case when I moved to the iPhone 4 and have dropped it a number of times with no ill effects. Also the cat likes to scoot things, and has knocked uncovered iPhones off the (tall) kitchen counter before.

I also prefer the feel of the phone in the Otterbox, tbh. It's easier to hold on to (despite aforementioned drops) and it's harder for the cat to scoot, too.

Silly post, really. Surprised it made it to the front page.
When I had my Treo 650, I got in the habit of keeping my keys in a separate pocket than my phone. Yet, with the iPhone I stopped doing this more and more. Now I don't care. I have yet to scratch it or damage it in any way.
When it comes to programming books, I tend to prefer paper-based books versus e-books.

With paper-based book it's easier for me to flip back and forth through the book to quickly reference something. Also, reading code snippets is a whole lot easier since you don't have to worry about screen size messing up the code readability and formatting.
Gorilla glass is nice, but its not perfect. I don't use screen protectors but the only thing I carry in my phone pocket is my phone. By the time I get a new phone, the screens are always pretty beaten up.
+ Skype, Zendesk, Opera, Rovio, among others.
"I drop my iPhone a few times a month and although I have [no] case I have never even gotten a scratch on it. I'll keep [not] using a case, thank you very much." And my iPhone 4 has literally been sent flying through the room. Twice. (Yes, inadvertently.)

At some point I just said "what's the point of keeping it pristine if you're keeping it under wrap? you won't be enjoying it." and decided it was simply more worth to be just a bit more careful.
This is an ancient idea. I read a 2600 article back in the early 2000s or possibly late 1990s that did essentially this same thing using a bash script and one of the first URL shortening services available at the time.
I think so. Wirth called out Fortran's lack of pointers, records, and recursion. You have (or can fake) all of these things in assembly. Recursion is particularly important for building a compiler, since much of it involves manipulating trees.

Also, consider the stated goal of the project. They wanted to write a throwaway compiler so that they could bootstrap a Pascal version. In this case, it's a bad choice to use a language (Fortran) that's so different from Pascal. On the other hand, assembly is very flexible, so you can use whatever idioms you think will apply in the Pascal code you later intend to write. This will make the translation much simpler.
i was leaning towards using paypal as well but wanted to setup that merchant account right from the start. i feel that it gives your site a bit more credibility that way.

I've bee very hesitant to go the chargify route for that exact reason you mentioned. I'd rather rely on a long running stable company like PP than to risk it all on a startup that may not be there in a year or two.

thanks for the advice :)
I recently had to do the same thing on my HL-2140 printer. I believe I found the trick on Amazon discussion forums.
that is quite a bit of hardware for $51 a month. Anyone know of servers in the US that are priced even close?
You can still have a bloated federal government administration with autonomous states, so I do not think he will be put out of work. Just look at the EU.
The linked Gettys article is fantastic too:

https://gettys.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/red-in-a-different-l...

VJ is at PARC now.

The old VJ LBL papers are still collected at ICSI/ICIR (Vern Paxson is still there!):

http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/pubs/browse.pl?groupid=...

There used to be some attention paid to deliberate evasion of congestion avoidance (Stefan Savage did a paper on it), the idea being that a malicious user could monopolize a link by ignoring congestion signals (interview question: when you upload a file via Wi-Fi over your DSL connection, how does your computer know how fast to send packets?). Maybe some of the reason that turned out not to matter was, we were in a temporary period of not needing congestion avoidance.

Finally, as I understand it, at least some of the fundamental ideas behind VJ's "hydrodynamic" congestion avoidance scheme are derived from Raj Jain's CUTE, which was done for DEC in '85.
I'm also anti-case, though my hubris resulted in this beauty: http://cl.ly/0y3b2K3l3E2m2n1A0L2l

Ironically, breaking the screen only hardened my resolve to not use a case; why let the crack be in vain?
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This brings up a question I've also wondered when looking at moving to EC2: it simply costs more to run when you have a few servers that use up a lot of bandwidth. At what scale does it become more efficient?
Moonwalking actually has a pretty extensive bibliography. In addition to the memory techniques, the references to Dr. K. Anders Ericsson's work on how to become an expert at anything was really interesting (http://www.coachingmanagement.nl/The%20Making%20of%20an%20Ex..., for example)
I went all in with Apple's new Applecare for the 4s... basically whatever happens, turn it in and get a new phone for $50. I figure I'll be spending close to that on a decent case, but the phone could break in that case too. I think it's just cost effective to stay without the case.
My understanding is that ZAGG (Invisible Shield) and Ghost Armor are making out like bandits in the new market of sexy tech toys that people don't want to put big clunky cases on. Their products fill the perfect niche - I think that many people feel that what the author says is true (a drop will have the same effect on a phone when it comes to a "full break/crack," regardless of the presence of a case), but what they are trying to prevent are scratches and scuffs marring their pristine toy.

An Invisible Shield put on with care is barely noticeable - I put a wet-apply shield on my Samsung Focus screen myself - and except for a little bit of the "orange peel" texture it's almost completely undetectable. It's great insurance against killer scratches, a scuffing drop onto concrete, and spills of sticky/nasty goop. At any time I could peel it off and replace it, or just get rid of it.

That said, I have nothing on my iPad but a Smart Cover, but it generally lives at home and isn't in and out of my pocket all day. On a screen of that size, I think there's something to be said for avoiding the orange-peel texture.
Those people talking about how well the iPhone survives a drop could do worse than taking a look at some people actually testing this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elKxgsrJFhw
A case isn't there primarily to protect the screen. It's there to absorb shock, protect against nicks and scuffs on the non-glass regions, and provide a non smooth-as-glass grip surface for your fingers and palm.

A good case will also have a raised bezel on the front so any potential screen impacts from a drop on a flat surface will hit the bezel and not the screen.
It's closer to $65 a month, with current euro->USD conversion.
Show us an example of a Canvas or WebGL animation using only HTML5, with no Javascript or anything other than HTML markup.
It's ok to break up with Dropbox
If you are valuable enough your employer probably doesn't want you to take any vacation. Your only real bargaining chit is being able to get a job elsewhere which means that if your skills are specialised enough and your employer is the only game in town where you would be that valuable then you actually have little to no bargaining power.

Also when you have a large number of staff who all doing essentially the same job they will usually get roughly the same vacation time or that would be regarded as unfair.

Just because somebody works as say a programmer but doesn't happen to be numero uno rockstar-ninja coder doesn't mean they don't deserve some time off every year.
Plus the amount of editing, proof-reading, fact-checking and all the other overlooked activities that differentiate a book from a blog.
Or, buy a phone that can resist a 1 meter drop on concrete without a case. That's pretty much any phone except the iPhone 4 and 4S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elKxgsrJFhw

Yes, sure, full glass is beautiful. But not very drop resistant.
I have an ipod classic (I need rockbox and physical controls for music). I don't have one of those condoms for it because I like that over time it gets a beaten-to-shit look. I don't want that for my phone.

Maybe it only has a marginal improvement to fall protection, but for someone who spent most of his article creaming his pants over the iPhone design, I'm surprised he doesn't care about day to day wear and tear.
The problems with charity as a model for providing what is provided currently by the government is that it is basically dictated by being able to make a plea to people with enough spare money to donate.

But the government just gets money from the people. Also, they get mandates from the people. So getting the government to tax you to pay for someone else's problem is exactly the same as paying for the problem yourself. Except now you've got a bunch of politicians involved. I don't see how that's supposed to make things better.

If people in a society want to pay for poor people's problems, they can just do that. On the other hand, if people don't want to pay for that, then of course they would never vote for a law to make them do that. I can't think of a case where people would rather be taxed by the government instead of giving money to charities.
"Here’s a scenario for you: Your boss encourages you to sign up for a Linkedin profile which you start to actively use in your work as well as socially. The time comes when you and your company part ways for whatever reason. Your boss now says that the account that was set up belongs to the company and you have to give it up. Does it sound like an unlikely scenario? It has happened to lots of people out there and it will happen again"

http://theundercoverrecruiter.com/content/social-networking-...
If the systems you're paying for are proprietary, then they can, and sometimes do, die the classic proprietary software death.
I agree, rm -rf /

the problem is you need root for that. The OPs code there, even though it is quite amateurish, doesn't require root.
If we can make zero-mass fuel, why bother shrinking the ship?
You can certainly drop an iPhone without breaking it - but I wouldn't be sure it would work every time.

Also, scratch-resistant and drop-resistant are not the same thing.
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