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Seems like an amazing idea, can't wait for it to come out.
Nothing negative happened at all! I think the difficult part was realizing that I didn't need so much "stuff" and it took a while to adjust to not owning everything myself. However, I wish I had done this sooner.
I work in a completely distributed team and I think it works well if you have the right demographic in your team. The one problem I see with the model, is that it does little for junior developers or interns that are just starting out.

There's a minimum bar that a developer has to reach before I think they can work in a distributed team. Folks just starting out need a bit more hands on mentoring and the distributed model makes that difficult.

I wouldn't hire an intern, or fresh college graduate into a distributed team. I think the issues around the talent crunch have something to do with not enough people in the field. Going distributed solves the problem of needing experienced folks, but it does little for newly minted developers.
I worked 15 months for startup company in California (I am in Toronto Canada) one week on site one week off site so 50% telecommute and that worked exceptionally well product was done and company is highly successful in own field.

Sure you have to make boundaries and it helps if you have office so you can close door and isolate from rest.

Nowdays I try to teach my customers that I will work at least 1-2 days from home. Most times it works but some are not equipped for remote work at all.

It also takes discipline not to slack but that goes for on site worker as well or even more because they get more benefit of doubt being "seen to work"
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Isn't Apple an OS vendor, one with a history of not approving apps that compete with what Apple has already done, and of taking existing apps off the market when Apple rolls out their own version?
I looked into the requirements when hiring abroad, and the IRS makes it insanely confusing (surprise, surprise). I finally determined that I had no U.S. payroll/withholding responsibility as my foreign employee was outside the U.S. and did all their work out of the U.S.

For payment, I use xoom.com to transfer bank-to-bank. Its worked out well for international payments so far and their fees are reasonable.
Why should Lulzsec be held accountable and not the ignorant/arrogant developers of the Stratfor/Mtgox/PS3 sites?

Everyone, EVERYONE, should be using something like LastPass, it makes me like MORE convenient than when I used the same password for everything and it's more secure because I have unique passwords everywhere.

As for credit card data, my understanding is that there are legal recourses for sites that store that data insecurely. Sadly, no one has taken my idea of an oauth style payments system where stealing a "credit card number" would be entirely meaningless.
I have about 30, it's hard not to buy when you come across great ones.
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Sadly, this power of invisible revision is going to be used for evil far more often than it will be for good.

Why? Well, consider the incentives. Making a correction in a guidebook is fine, but it is unlikely to sell new copies so much as the All New (Not Really) 2012 Edition. Correcting typos in a book published through a traditional publishing company may require enough bureaucratic effort that only the most egregious will ever be fixed. The biographer's new chapter with previously unknown evidence warrants some sort of new sale...

But the ways of evil provide their own incentives. China can employ ten thousand censors, the NSA can grep and sed, the Texas Board of Education can decree a global search and replace for evolution. Thet don't need any further motivation.
They really need to get the near field communications stuff in there - eventually you should be able just push your basket, yourself and your wallet/phone through a scanner and everything gets tallied and charged.
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The more successful it gets, the more fragmented it will get.

Android fragmentation is about the software version installed, not the hardware. WP7 has a set hardware requirement that every device must meet, and there is a set timeline for requiring updates to the phone. With this model, the only fragmentation that will occur is generational, which Apple (and all of computing history) proves doesn't matter much.
I worked remotely for two years out of LA as one of two engineers for a tiny startup, and that describes my experience there perfectly.

I've been working remotely for the last three years out of Seattle, and it's totally different. Part of it is the availability of plenty of coffee shops from which to work (http://technomancy.us/156), part of it is having more hacker friends locally with which to co-work, but a lot of it comes down to just having a lot more communication with my remote team. At my last job I spent the majority of the day pair programming over SSH and VoIP. Also, being the one remote guy on a team that's otherwise all in-house is much, much harder to pull off.
All automation is predicated on a machine being cheaper and more reliable than a human. As the cost of energy rises in coming decades, I'm expecting that we'll discover that some forms of automation only make sense in a world where conventional petroleum is dirt cheap.

Automatic checkout only takes electricity, so that'll probably be with us for quite a while. But manufacturing jobs will return to North America once it no longer makes sense to ship in consumer goods from east Asia. And I expect that as agriculture becomes more locally-oriented, there will be a lot of labour jobs associated with that—especially for tasks that might have been automated at the industrial scale, but are cheaper done by human hands at a farm 1/100th the size.
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May this new year brings you new customers, achieve break even, bring opportunity for successful exit and all that you wish for yourself, your family, your project and everyone around.

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Mobiles for 65+. Need your input.
A few friends and I are in an incubator (Next36 in Toronto) and wanted poll YC for some input.

Our scope is mobile (cellphones, tablets, other) and we've taking a liking to the 65+ market (retirees, boomers, seniors). We think that this market is underserved by the current mobile industry, which focuses instead on the more tech-savvy 15 to 40 year-olds. We have a few ideas, but would love your input.

If you're 65+, what are your pet peeves about cellphones? Do you own a smartphone or a tablet? Why? What do you use them for?

If you're younger, but have friends or family that are 65+: Do they own mobiles? What do they use them for? What issues do they face? It'd be great if you could fill out our quick survey: http://goo.gl/rybn6

Thanks, and Happy New Year!
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For passwords, I typically use a Mandylion (http://mandylionlabs.com/products/token.htm). It has helped out quite a bit, the downside being I have to run a Windows VM for the token software.
Yeah I heavily modified Haystack and pysolr to make it work for us. Standard disclaimers about leaky abstractions apply.
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Was this done with 3D perlin noise?

Give us some technical details of the project please.
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It's OK if you are buying a small number of items. For a cart full of items it's absolutely slower than a traditional checkout where you can be unloading the cart, the cashier scanning, and the bag boy putting items in bags all at the same time. With self-checkout you are doing all three in a serialized fashion and it's slower. Also if you are buying more than will fit on the bagging area you're stuck, because the machines complain if you remove anything before you've paid.

Also the cashiers are practiced at holding the item at the proper angle to the scanner so the reader picks up the bar code on the first scan. In the self-checkout area people are picking up items, looking for the code, scanning, scanning again. And produce that is priced by weight is another bottleneck. The experienced cashiers know all the produce codes by memory so they don't have to take time looking up the code for green leaf lettuce vs. romaine.

Self checkout has its place, but it's not ready to replace human cashiers at the supermarket yet.
A few years ago, why did you move from Denmark to the HQ in Chicago? Could you have just stayed in Denmark?
All I'm getting is jargo overload from that page. I don't understand what that offers me over regular password generation/storage, besides having to use a VM would pretty much mean no deal unless I'm missing out on some killer feature.

Stores 50 passwords at a max of 14 characters? I have many passwords over 20 characters and have well over 200 passwords stored in LastPass. LastPass also supports two-factor auth via Google Authenticator now as well.

I really feel like I must be missing something. Its a glorified notepad? With the ability to XOR the passwords with another string for additional "protection"?
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Do you know of any electrical device that was designed with out doing the circuit analysis, just spatially slapped the parts together? Do you know of any buildings taller than a story that were built spatially without doing any analysis of load? When was the last time you heard of a car that was put together by someone who didn't do the math to make sure the engine wouldn't explode at speed? Try building an artificial hart without doing the flow analysis. Being good at math isn't a sufficient condition to be a great engineer but it is a necessary condition.
My pay is being sent via international bank transfers. Costs about $20 (on my end) which is fine with me. It takes about a day but I believe it's reliable.
Oh wow that's pretty cool. I used to work on a lot of BigCommerce stores, and while they have an enterprise version which bigger companies can buy (http://www.interspire.com/customers/), I had never heard of GSI Commerce, who seems to have taken the cake for that market.
I have 137 in total. Most I have had for 5 years plus, and sometimes when I look at them I am reminded of some huge plans I had to take over xyz industry. They are all now hosted at bulkregister.com
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This would be a great gift idea but it would be hard to make it a surprise.
Can you throw some light on what kind of agreements remote workers outside the country (US) are hired?
yup....PayGuard will rock the payments industry by putting an end to the localization trend in e-commerce and create a truly global payments platform.....of course I am biased for it.....LOL
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I found the ruling to be an interesting read which went to lengths to distinguish idea from expression. It even referenced an older case of Atari vs. Amusement World (Asteroids vs. Meteors) which Atari lost:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6441518363892064...

A notable quote from that case:

It seems clear that defendants based their game on plaintiff's
copyrighted game; to put it bluntly, defendants took plaintiff's
idea. However, the copyright laws do not prohibit this. Copyright
protection is available only for expression of ideas, not for ideas
themselves. Defendants used plaintiff's idea and those portions of
plaintiff's expression that were inextricably linked to that idea.
The remainder of defendants' expression is different from plaintiff's
expression. Therefore, the Court finds that defendants' "Meteors"
game is not substantially similar to and is not an infringing
copy of plaintiff's "Asteroids" game.

The Munchkin ruling also references an older case and quotes:

Thus, "if the only similarity between plaintiff's and defendant's
works is that of the abstract idea, there is an absence of substantial
similarity and hence no infringement results."

It later goes on to say:

Plaintiffs' audiovisual work is primarily an unprotectible game, but
unlike the bee pin, to at least a limited extent the particular
form in which it is expressed (shapes, sizes, colors, sequences,
arrangements, and sounds) provides something "new or additional
over the idea."

This was to be North American's downfall:

North American not only adopted the same basic characters but also
portrayed them in a manner which made K. C. Munchkin appear
substantially similar to PAC-MAN. The K. C. Munchkin gobbler
has several blatantly similar features, including the relative
size and shape of the "body," the V-shaped "mouth," its distinctive
gobbling action (with appropriate sounds), and especially the way in
which it disappears upon being captured. An examination of the K. C.
Munchkin ghost monsters reveals even more significant visual
similarities. In size, shape, and manner of movement, they are virtually
identical to their PAC-MAN counterparts. K. C. Munchkin's monsters,
for example, exhibit the same peculiar "eye" and "leg" movement.
Both games, moreover, express the role reversal and "regeneration"
process with such great similarity that an ordinary observer
could conclude only that North American copied plaintiffs' PAC-MAN.

Had they only copied the idea the case would have gone the way of the Asteroids vs. Meteors case. Where they went wrong is that they copied the expressions used to such a degree that it was found to be infringing their copyright.
I don't get what it is about software engineers that make so many of them think they're entitled to work remotely.

It seems to start with the fact that many engineers think 100% of their job is coding, and therefore they can get "more" work done when working remotely. This is absolutely dead wrong. Engineers also should be accomplishing the following in order to maximize overall productivity:

- teaching other engineers

- learning from other engineers

- coordinating engineering tasks to minimize duplication

- doing what is necessary to ensure the software is what is needed

- communicating with others any insights that may be had while developing

- working with other departments to make sure everything is in place to build whatever it is you're building.

This is just what I can come up with off the top of my head in 2 minutes, and each of these things takes a significant hit when the engineer is working remotely. Any engineer I would want to hire has quite a bit more to offer than coding skills, and as soon as you require more than a basic automaton blindly building a product exactly to spec, you need human interaction with that person to maximize potential. We already learned this lesson a few years ago with the total failure of "all software can be outsourced to India!" I don't see why we need to learn this again.
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What does this mean for classics like Spectre? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(video_game) It's been around for a long time on multiple Apple platforms. Will Atari start attacking not only recent entrants, but also ones who were there far more than a year ago?
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I think there is potential in having a second chamber where the people making decisions serve a long term in office (possibly until they choose to retire) unless they are actively recalled. As you say, that puts them above the need to make decisions based on the worst kind of reactionary politics, as often happens to those serving for terms of only a few years who always have one eye on the re-election campaign fund.

On the other hand, I think getting into such office in the first place should be about more than buttering up the current PM. Rather like the US Supreme Court, if all you have to do to reach such high office is receive the assent of someone who may themselves be on the way out politically by the time they appoint you, there is a very real danger that too many bad apples get in and then can't readily be removed.

I've often mused idly over the jury service for politicians idea. For a while, I wondered what would happen if we ran a staged process where randomly selected citizens were invited to join the second chamber for one term of office, lasting quite a while (say 6 years), with a new intake every other year so you never have a chamber full of people who haven't figured out how things work yet. The difficulty I always run into is that like jury service, it probably has to be compulsory rather than an invitation if you're going to get a reasonably representative group, but unlike jury service it is clearly not reasonable to require people to give up several years of their lives for public service. And you can't really do it on shorter terms of say one year, because then the administration of the day can just wait out a hostile second chamber and hope for better luck next time before steamrollering through all the bad legislation it really wants in one favourable year.
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> But who introduces you to new artists, who gives you news and opinion, who provides the bits between the songs, tells you what's happening in town that weekend, tells you when the road's closed?

This is just my personal opinion, but I (and most of my friends) absolutely hate having to listen to FM radio for those exact reasons. All of my in-car music is played from my smartphone. I don't even remember when I last heard the radio.

For new artists, there's nothing that can beat online music services giving personalized recommendations based on your own preferences (or even based on what's popular). A generic radio presenter can't even come close.

As for the news, what's happening, closed roads, etc. I can get all that info online and skim across it in seconds, rather than having fragments of information trickle down from a radio presenter between songs and commercials.

I understand it's your area of work, but there is no way FM radio will ever survive in it's current format as we move forward.
The problem is, most of the negative effects of the cloud are not immediate downsides; rather they are future risks of catastrophe, which people are generally very bad at measuring and accounting for. What's the probability that Google accidentally flags you for abuse and eats your Gmail account tomorrow, consuming your internet identity along with 5 years of email, documents, blogposts, photos, videos, etc.? How do you rationally place an expected value on that outcome?
only if you will not do same quality work as on site in which case I wouldn't recommend to hire you anyhow
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By the same argument, C++0x should not have been, yet many people did.

I see little equivalence; despite the flux of the C++0x specification, many C++ useful and usable compilers existed and implemented several portions of the specification.

Put another way, the draft status of portions of the Perl 6 specification say nothing about whether "Just compile git HEAD yourself!" is the preferred distribution and deployment mechanism, nor about whether the right approach to supporting real users involves slapping a TODO tag on regressions to appease the test suite.
There was also http://www.blogbinders.com/ that made a go at the same idea ~8 years ago. Sadly they didn't survive.
Personally I'd apply the same logic in that case: copyright covers specific expressions/implementations of an idea, not the idea itself. I agree with you that the law (or in this case vague approximations to the law as implemented by random and capricious App Store policies) should remain the same no matter who you apply it to.
Because I like living in the US better than living in Denmark.

I've recently moved to Spain for part of the year because I like 65F and Sunny better than the Chicago Winter.

Neither moves had anything to do with work per se. (Except that I'm a better worker when I live where I want to live)
How did it take $87 M for this idea to fail?

If the real challenge was getting everyone to agree why did it cost so much?
This, one thousand fold.

A lot of projects on the "Get Involved" page or whatever, have a list of "prerequisite' knowledge. Don't let this intimidate you, often playing with the source is a much better way to learn about the subject than trying to research that topic, feel you understand it, then looking at the source.
Excellent idea. As a meta-comment I'd love to see a similar list made for Twitter. I'm sorry if this has already been done and I missed it.
Even after Scribr, Facebook, Twitter and the Internet itself are gone.

I like how this is presented as if it is a certainty such a day will come to pass :)
Right, for us 90% of these people were in europe/south america, and the remainder were definitely working on multiple projects/clients and had businesses setup that they did their contracting through.
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Anybody who's heard one at full blast knows that the MacBook and MBPro have loud fans - that's not in dispute. What's unknown is the proximate cause of it turning on.
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I sure it was a joke, but do not underestimate rural Ontario. Thanks to the unfortunately now historic funding structure of the education system, Ontario poured massive amounts of money into rural technology.

I cannot speak for the Fenwick area, but here in the most agriculturally productive area of Ontario, the schools had high speed internet access back in 1994-1995. Most of the schools in the city were lucky if they had dialup, if internet at all. Labs full of SGI machines when SGI was a major player. Remote video-conferencing classrooms. You name it, we probably had access to it.

As a result, we seem to have a disproportionate number of skilled tech workers. I am really quite amazed at the talent that has come from this small farming community.
That's not social skills, that's attitude/decency and work ethic.
You got it. Quoting from the 5.2 manual:

Because of the lexical scoping rules, local variables can
be freely accessed by functions defined inside their scope.
A local variable used by an inner function is called an
upvalue, or external local variable, inside the inner
function.

i.e., the external local variables the closure is closed on. And for C functions made available to Lua scripts:

When a C function is created, it is possible to associate
some values with it, thus creating a C closure (see
lua_pushcclosure); these values are called upvalues and are
accessible to the function whenever it is called.

- http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html
They forgot what, to me, looks the biggest of HP's blunders for this year: "on demand content printing", or as I choose to call it "pay twice as much to get a magazine article".

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111012a.html