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No, there seems to be something else, otherwise the printer wouldn't know that there had been exactly 1500 pages printed. I think you're on the right track, but the trick OP described triggered "Oh, this is a new cartridge", not "Oh, this cartridge has ink in it".

It'll be interesting to see what happens in another 1500 pages - what exactly will the printer compare to, and will you be able to reset?
First of all, nice read.

I'm a PHP developer and I work everyday on a Mac environment and I was wondering if there is any chance for you to write an article like "Ultimate PHP developer & power user tools"?
Ron Paul's big moment
What makes you think that even if you do pay money, the system you love will continue? Or that the system you love will evolve the way you want it? Or that you're not the product?
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A surprising number of the old Portland theaters serve beer and food. The one I've been to (haven't visited them all) that serves you at your seat is McMenamin's Mission Theater at 16th and Glisan. I haven't been to Living Room Theaters on 10th, but they serve you at your seat, just not while the show is in progress.
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We need a new method of transportation through space. Could the higgs boson be removed from a neutron so that it would not interact with the higgs field? We could create a tin can sized ship with it and accellerate the near zero mass object close to light speed and decelerate just as easily if zero mass fuel could also be made.
when I said sanity maybe I should have been more clear: political sanity against tyrannical crap like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_... .. this bill silently passed without any substantial media coverage and grants the president unprecedented powers the kings of old would envy.. I know no politician or anyone for that matter is "perfect" (really no such thing exists) but I like a lot of what he is saying not everything. I would leave it at that to avoid any diatribe that may arise on HN over political discussions.

Maybe this should be a tech-only forum to avoid getting people charged up and polarized.
I think I'm worst at delegating

I'm having a hard time being a good listener

Wow that is a description of me 10 years ago to the T. I was always the guy that people turn to and the guy that pulled the project out. It can and does go to ones head. Be very careful to not become arrogant, I really wish someone gave me that advice 10 years ago.

As for your case specifically, the delegation is going to be the hardest one and the one that you have to cross the chasm on. Given your nature (I know from experience) it will be hard but you just have to trust in your people. Hire people that you believe are smarter than you, this will help in delegation because you will perceive their opinions higher than your own. Also try to remember, you design systems the way you do because it worked for you, they will design it their different way because they are drawing on what worked for them, look at it as an opportunity to learn a different way of doing things. Many times when people like you and I enter this type of role we believe that we are the authority, it can make working with our personality type unbearable when you are a subordinate. Instead take it as an opportunity to learn. Help them make their solutions better, not make your solutions better. Just because you are the lead does not mean you are the best at every situation, be humble and try to be an eternal student, that is the best advice I can give you.
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"whiny douche"? Well, that pretty much put the nail in the coffin. Guess the other reply today about proggit compared to here was probably right. Tis a shame.

Sorry the "post by Marco" wasn't relevant enough when it was sitting right next to this link, said "marco.com" and had hundreds of comments.

Dasil003, you're really going to call me a douche when you were even commenting in that thread? Sorry, I'm not going to resort to calling you a name.
By the fact that he handed down password and permissions to the company to operate this account, one could argue that this is not his own account anymore.

I've given colleagues the keys to my appartment, the password to my privately-owned laptop, ipad and phone...

Sometimes these weren't work-related and just happened to involve colleagues, other times they were 100% work related.

I don't believe that giving a colleague access to something of yours indicates it is owned by the company. Hell, why not argue the other way, the company gave me access to all their servers so don't they sort of belong to me now?
Thanks for posting. A question about this statement from the article:

>> But [Ron Paul] coming this far tells you something about the mood of Republican voters.

Don't you think it's a bit limiting to single out republican voters? I am fairly convinced that there are a significant amount of voters on all sides that support Ron Paul. I have also come to believe that specifically many republicans are against him, largely due to the anti-Ron Paul right-wing media influence. Thoughts?
The one resource the world will never run short on is total morons, as evidenced by this story.
Another version of the story for non-NYT subscribers:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16351377
Here it is...

Daily Show: Indecision 2012 - Corn Polled Edition - Ron Paul & the Top Tier

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-15-2011/indecis...

Quora: How are MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News so united in their snubbing of Ron Paul?

http://www.quora.com/How-are-MSNBC-CNN-and-Fox-News-so-unite...
I could come up with a list of things that I don't like about Ron Paul personally, and a few things that worry me politically.

But none of that really matters.

He's the only candidate that I feel I could actually trust to stick by his campaign rhetoric, and the only one I would trust to actually defend the constitution.

Ironic, given that we have a constitutional scholar in the White House and a historian running for the GOP nomination.

Ron Paul is wrong on some things I care about, but so is Obama, and certainly so is Newt or Romney. I think I'll vote for the lesser of a dozen evils, and go with Paul.
I got started with the idea of mnemonics by reading Jonathan Foer's "Moonwalking with Einstein[1]", which is an exceptionally good read.

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It isn't a 'how-to' book per se, as it mostly tells the story of how the author went from being a journalist who covered the World Memory Championship tournament and within a year of training, became the US Memory Champ.

Regardless, it's a really fun read, and Foer is a really good writer. It does have some 'how-to' moments in it, and the little I've learned has been 100% effective, but I needed something to deal with more complicated data structures -- I could easily memorize the periodic table now, in order, but I don't know how I would store associated data, like atomic weights, symbols, melting point, boiling point, etc. That's why I got the Higbee book.

Glad to hear an endorsement on it. The one deficiency I have with Moonwalking is that it doesn't go on to recommend a book or technique that would work. I debated over a few of the books mentioned in Moonwalking, and ultimately decided to go with the (not mentioned) Higbee book based on an external review.
> Maybe this should be a tech-only forum to avoid getting people charged up and polarized.

Well, technically, it is supposed to be limited to tech, startups, and 'things hackers might find interesting'. Politics is generally considered off topic. SOPA is directly relevant to many of us, so it's gotten a pass, but this discussion doesn't seem to be much about SOPA, but about Ron Paul.
Why not? It's arbitrary anyways--as the article mentions the same place previously switched (which means if the Jews didn't like change they would still be on the time that everyone is now switching back to).
I really like this approach, in fact that's what I used for http://www.patternify.com/

This way the whole tool can be 100% client-side javascript, without a need for any back-end.
Isn't that about how much written history we have?

I don't think he's being a creationist here, at least, that's not how I read it.
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You probably wouldn't be creating anything on your commute. And podcasts aren't easily skimmed, they should give you enough headspace for reflection.
Very misleading title. It should read: "How our slow css and js increased our bounce rate."
I'm not. I'm saying signal to noise ratio of political discussions on political sites is so low that any rational discussion drowns out in the noise. Plus, most political sites have a clear and strong bias, such that opposing ideas are rarely discussed based on their merits.

Also, many techies who otherwise would not engage in political discussions (due to aforementioned reasons), can bounce off ideas here. I'm not claiming that HN becomes a political discussion forum, I'm saying downvoting legitimate political discussions for being political is taking it too far.

[Edit: missed a word and it bothered me enough to edit the post.]
I would take a modified Tortoise SVN client over this about 100% of the time.
Interestingly, http://www.stratfor.com/ is "down for maintenance" at the moment.
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You might want to simply look into reading some leadership books. Leadership 101[1] is one you can read in probably an afternoon, to get you started. From there John Maxwell as a few more books on Leadership as well.

As I haven't been in a team lead position myself, I'm not sure if any of these books can help you learn how to delegate as that seems something that would take time and practice.

I have however, worked under a few engineer-become-leaders that are simply horrible leaders, and I -wish- they would read a book like this some day and have it click. Your success as a leader can possibly be measured with how successful you are at raising leaders under your wing.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Leadership-101-John-C-Maxwell/dp/15964...
Flagged as politics.
Sorry, Roee, but that's a load of crap. There's a ton of bias and falacious thinking going on here.

Right off the bat, you wear your bias on your sleeve.

> So at the risk of letting my soul get sucked into the fanboi dark side, I bought the cheapest MacBook Pro and started working with it as my main machine.

So if you buy a Mac, there's some kind of inherent risk that you'll become a "fanboi"?

> What’s so amazing about this story is that when people are confronted with a problem in an Apple product, in most cases they assume it’s the user’s fault.

I've done my time in the trenches of end-user support. There's a reason that most people capable of solving computer problems start with the user; because it's most frequently the user. This is true of Macs, PCs, phones, microwaves, VCRs, you name it. You always start by verifying that the user isn't doing something unexpected. That is a problem to be solved in and of itself, but it's not unique to Mac culture.

> I hear many people criticizing Android’s responsiveness etc, but no one criticizing iPhone 3GS’s horrible sluggishness since iOS 4.0.

I cannot think of a worse example. The 3GS was introduced in 2009. When people criticize Android's responsiveness, those complaints are levied against brand new devices.

Roee, I can tell you exactly why your brand new MacBook Pro was screaming like a jet fighter, and it's not your fault. OS X has a few background processes that can eat up your CPU cycles causing high load and therefore high fan speeds. The primary culprit is Spotlight. There are a set of Spotlight indexing processes (mds, I'm looking at you) that will push the CPU at 100% for extended periods.

IMO, Apple could do a few things to remedy this:

* Throttle the Spotlight indexing service (and other background-only services) based on CPU temperature. Apple controls the entire hardware/software stack, so they can consistently rely on this information. It sounds silly, but when I make large changes to my filesystem, I see the same issue, and it can be really annoying to listen to my MBP whir loudly on my desk. Other users find it downright concerning.

* Provide an "Advanced Options" button in the Spotlight preferences where we can use a slider control balance the speed of updates and CPU usage. This slider should start out somewhere lower than "update Spotlight at all costs, even if the system load is at 3.99".

* Update Activity Monitor to include a more user friendly view of what's using the most system resources by CPU, memory, and disk activity. The process list is great for geeks, but my mom has no idea what launchd, SystemUIServer or mds are. Disk activity has no transparency beyond ops per second and throughput. There is no user facing method of determining what application is making orders of magnitude more file system requests than anything else on the system.

If Apple did any of the above, they'd be doing 10x more than anyone else in the industry. Hell, Soluto is in the business of providing exactly this kind of information. Roee, how about you look in to providing these kinds of details through Soluto for Mac? I'd recommend you to everyone inside my network.
Why not? It's a simple timezone change. Moreover, it's a timezone change that effects a very small number of people.
> I'm saying signal to noise ratio of political discussions on political sites so low that any rational discussion drowns out in the noise.

And you'd like to bring that here?
This is kind of the way it goes, we see a lot of demos from people scratching their itch, and then some of those demos will congeal into higher level libraries and toolkits then engines form and finally you see some amazing complete works built on the shoulders of those efforts. WebGL is still in it's infancy but as more and more people scratch their itches we will see less demos and more complete works.
Shortly before I started managing engineers I read "Managing Humans" (I'd already been following http://www.randsinrepose.com/) and found it helpful. One of the best resources I found was (luckily) my own boss. Find others in a similar (or higher) position and talk with them regularly, openly, and candidly about any challenges you're facing.

I wish I had better advice, but what you'll find is that being a good manager/team lead is at least as hard as your old job (and probably harder). Continuing to do your old job alongside it, while probably a good idea for your own job satisfaction/sanity, will only make it harder.

Random bits of advice I find helpful:

* Your primary job is to shield your direct reports from management BS (false priorities, unrealistic deadlines, company drama); while this is less of a problem at a small startup, don't ignore it. Your secondary job is to make your direct reports look good; promote what they're doing and make sure what they're doing is aligned with the company's goals.

* Schedule 1:1 meetings. See Rands' advice on how to structure and run them, but basically keep them short, informal, and regular. Start with a softball and use it as a time for your direct reports to warn you about any upcoming problems that may be bubbling. Avoid the temptation for status reports, one larger team meeting instead, etc. Sit down with each individual direct report and get to know them better.

* Set clear goals and priorities for everyone.

* Avoid the temptation to micro-manage. You may eventually find you have an employee who has to be micromanaged, but most people hate it and will find it counter-productive. While this sounds obvious, it's hard for someone who likely got to their new management position because they were the best at the job they're now managing. Let people make mistakes and then let them recover from them.
Storing everything in UTC is a huge improvement, but is still an imperfect solution because the Tz database changes over time.

Suppose you are writing a appointment tracking system, and, at some point before the olson tz database has been updated with this change, the user in the Samoa timezone creates an future appointment for Jun 2, 2012. That would be stored in UTC.

Now, you upgrade the olson TZ database file on your server to a newer version, which incorporates the Somoa tz change. Now, without any user input, the appointment is suddenly on Jun 3, 2012! (because the same UTC date, with the updated TZ database, is Jun 3, 2012)

Is that what a user would have expected if they created the appointment for Jun 2, 2012? I would say no. But that said, what if the appointment was for Dec 30 2011? That date no longer exists, so it would have be pushed ahead automatically.

Conclusion: time zones are hard
Until this morning, the page for spasmodic dysphonia said there is no cure.
The first thing you need to do is learn the capabilities of your team.

Who are the best programmers? Who are the best programmers for the given types of problems you have to solve? Who are the most creative thinkers? Who is good at meeting deadlines?

If somebody is bad at meeting deadlines, why?

One of the best programmers I've ever worked with was always missing deadlines. Turns out, it was only because he was really bad at estimating time. Once I learned that, and started handling some of his estimates for him, he was the best programmer on paper too.

As for managing, I try not to micro-manage, but it's easier to get a sense of who does and doesn't need it once you understand, from a manager's perspective, who is capable of what, and to what degree of consistency.

For the actual management, most of the time, I would just periodically see if anybody needed any assistance, and let them know that I was always happy to help where needed.
I'm having a hard time being a good listener

Fix this first. It's a prerequisite for leadership.
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How was that a great writeup when it discounts him in the first paragraph, using adjectives like wacky, radical, no-hoper and quirky? I was expecting it to be an objective look at Ron Paul's policies by Economist.
Louis CK has a better shot at becoming president than Ron Paul. Maybe 2016

http://LouisCKforPresident.com
I absolutely agree: things have gone in that direction and this simply isn't the forum for it, as such I've flagged the submission.
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megablast said he wants laws... against abortion and CWuestefeld pointed out that, although he doesn't like it, he doesn't support federal laws against it.
Those days are long gone. The big box store killed commission-based salespeople, now you have "sales associate" which really just means associates making 8-10 dollars per hour and are there to look helpful and run the cash register occassionally. Best Buy, Bed Bath & Beyond, those types of stores do not train their employees on the products at all (except a tiny bit on whatever item they are pushing for the season).
> and the story on "how long does my stuff stay in cache" is unclear

It sounds like you haven't really looked at CloudFront.

http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/faqs/#How_long_will_Amazon_...
What Microsoft managed to achieve in the market with Windows was impressive. Windows itself has never been particularly interesting interface-wise, or technologically. Microsoft was successful at putting their software in front of people. If they didn't, someone else would have - in all likelihood, someone else with superior software such as Apple or Commodore.
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Even before reading the article I thought this might be a Brother printer being discussed. Sure enough...

I've had a three models of Brother laser printers, and each one did this. On each one I covered the window with tape and on each one I printed for a long time after. It is, the only real flaw I've found in getting a Brother laser printer over some of the more expensive options.

I'm not sure if Brother is being deliberately evil - I think it's more likely a matter of not having a cheap way to measure toner remaining and knowing a given cartridge is good for 1500 "average" page prints. The profit margins on new cartridges probably helped encourage them to not spend a lot of R&D on a more robust toner check method.

It's probably like you suggest - 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.

If Brother had simply added an option on the printer to ignore the low toner warning, this would be a decent feature - warn me when I'm probably about to run out, but let me continue printing until I'm entirely empty. That way I'd have time to order a new cartridge but still probably be able to print for a while after getting the warning.

This particular "hack" is pretty well covered over the internet.
I use http://saasy.com because I am in Canada, if I was in the USA I would use stripe.com. It depends on how much you're charging too - chargify looks good, but actual costs are $3.49/user... and up to almost $10.
I found this book very helpful in understanding of my role as manager: http://www.amazon.de/F%C3%BChren-Leisten-Leben-Wirksames-Man... (German). Malik's style is probably not to everyones liking - I enjoy it, though.
Probably because he is a one purpose writer, setting out to 'support Apple in every way, always', similar to John Gruber. I like Apple too, but the way these two always conclude that Apple is right in whatever they did, and anything Apple does is better than any other company, isn't very interesting to read.
Great advice, thanks! On a sidenote, that guy:

"One of the best programmers I've ever worked with was always missing deadlines. Turns out, it was only because he was really bad at estimating time. Once I learned that, and started handling some of his estimates for him, he was the best programmer on paper too."

...was most probably me =D
Maybe you should make yourself valuable enough to actually earn 24 days of vacation a year?
i wanted people to imagine a different type of politician, so i made this:

http://LouisCKforPresident.com
Hard but honest... any specific advice on how to do it?
What right do people have - even poor people - to demand that everyone else in society pay for damage to their homes? At least with insurance, the amount paid in is related to the probability * amount paid out. But if something is covered by the government, I'd pay a fixed amount in my taxes regardless of the risks I personally would be taking. So in that case, what would my incentive be to minimize risk? Anything bad that happens will be taken care of by other people.
Jeremiah Wright isn't my cup of tea, either, but 'anti-American'? That's absurd.
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CSS filter support recently landed within WebKit nightlies. CSS filters provide a method for modifying the rendering of a basic DOM element, image, or video. CSS filters allow for blurring, warping, and modifying the color intensity of elements. Let's have a look at how CSS filters work and how you can quickly create elements that are beautifully filtered!
An interesting tidbit is that my 3 year old Lenovo is less noisy than my MacBook Pro when running full steam ahead both of them. That and the miserable keyboard is my primary woes against it.

OSX is also funny because today it isn't that far ahead. Rather, compared to my Ubuntu there are several places where it is utterly behind. Yes, there are more glitches in Ubuntu currently but looking at from where they came, this is a deep and major improvement. There are also places where the UX of Ubuntu outright beats OSX. There is also the whole part about the App Store and the want for my credit card, but that is another story.

The touchpad and multitouch features of OSX/MacBook hardware is awesome though. I really like that.
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Anyone living in an area where a flood is possible.