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Risk of the person leaving is probably highest on the list.

Assuming that leaving could be solved for in some form of contract or golden handcuffs, I would consider it. As much as there are drawbacks there are also benefits. Such as a person with 3X the companies overall technology picture in their head. A flatter knowledge structure. More accountability, so it does cut both ways, I would have no issue paying 3X for the tradeoff, so long as they where not my sole employee. In a sole employee situation I would prefer hiring a 2X and a 1X over a single 3X unless it was a temporary project based effort. The harder issue up front would be how to identify the 3X developer. I have a good process for spotting talent, but there is a gradient within that talent. Some are a good deal for market rate, other are what are refer to as the 10Xers and worth far more than they can command. Both are worth hiring and are above the industry but spotting the 10xer up front proves to be a daunting task.
If the headline was "world's youngest MSP" instead of "programming prodigy" would there be less hate in this thread?
jQuery or CSS3 transitions? Speed comparison + brief empirical explanation.
Youtube search throws up a lot of unrelated content. Now this could be the problem of the author not tagging content well enough OR youtube trying to maximize the user visit and just providing him a range of options.

I think it is real problem and that could be addressed by focusing on better search or more a crowd sourced list.
I'm still a bit of a newbie myself, but one thing to consider is how much tea you want to brew in one go.

If you're drinking high quality, delicious tea, I don't think you'll want to settle for only one cup at a time. But the more you brew, the more leaves you need to use.

It's somewhat counter-intuitive, but let's say you use one teaspoon of leaves for one cup of tea, you can't just steep the same amount of leaves longer to get one liter of tea. But you can brew whatever amount at a time, several times. I think the "10 - 15" times on teapeat.com is exaggerated. It's probably closer to 5, and even then, the taste kind of changes along the way.

I brew something like 7.5 deciliters ( http://theoatmeal.com/pl/senior_year/science ) of tea at a time, and that gives me roughly three nice-sized cups. But I need to use roughly four teaspoons of leaves for that.

If you want to get serious about enjoying high quality tea (and who wouldn't!), you might want to invest in a water-boiler that lets you set the temperature. Almost no quality tea can be brewed at 100C.

For Japanese sencha (my favourite type of tea), it appears that roughly 70C is good, which just so happens to be the temperature I get from my water boiler when I ask for 80C. A lucky coincidence.

Another choice you need to make is the kind of teapot you'll use. A glass pot looks pretty with your lovely green tea in it, but will break into pieces when it slips from your hands when you're washing it. True story. A stainless steel pot won't break, and will keep your tea warm for a long time. Then there are other kinds, like cast-iron pots, ceramic ones, etc. I've got a steel pot now, and I'm quite happy with it.
Also, I'd really appreciate some help in explaining the discrepancy here. I've had a go at the bottom of the page, but if anyone has any input I'd be keen to get it as correct as possible.
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No. An accelerometer measures change in acceleration.

When the round is fired, it will experience a huge acceleration from the propellant along its axis plus a very large rotational acceleration as the rifling spins the round from 0 revolutions per second to a large number of revolutions per second.

Once the round leaves the barrel, it is falling at a constant acceleration (9.8m/s, freefall, 0G, "weightlessness"), so it will not be able to measure the earth's gravitational force. It also will be spinning at a constant rate because there is no outside force increasing or decreasing the spin rate, thus no rotational acceleration. While there will be acceleration due to the centripetal effect of the rotation, that acceleration is constant and thus not usable with an accelerometer for counting revolutions.
"world's youngest MSP" is still pretty meaningless.

I have no clue why this is even on hacker news, let alone top story.
I am thinking something like a headphone jack right before it's loaded in the barrel. Press some buttons, cock, shoot. During this time of programming its probably then charged too with a capacitor in the grenade/bullet thing.

EDIT: I just thought of an even better way of doing it! There could be little contacts on the back of it surrounding the part that the hammer hits. During charging, it also programs with spikes of voltage. While it is still loaded the gun, the gun's computer monitors that voltage of the cap to keep it charged so there isn't a lag during when you want to fire.
Signatures allegedly lower the fraud rate, or at least assist in proving fraud if a card is stolen.

Some banks now offer the option to bypass signature capture at the tradeoff of a slightly higher merchant rate. Many quick-serve restaurants (Chipotle comes to mind) will take the hit in return for processing customers faster. Time is money.

Given how badly I sign the UPS pad when picking up a delivery, I can't see these signatures as being usable.
Tell PG: The essays page order affects the RSS feed
I noticed yesterday that there was a new article on the front page of HN, then I noticed it wasn't on the RSS feed. I took a moment to look for why that would be and found that your latest two articles are listed at the bottom of the essays page rather than the top. Currently, the RSS lists "Why Startup Hubs Work" as your latest.
I'll be announcing it all over HN when it's done (likely February/March), but yes I'll also broadcast it on my twitter feed (same username as here on HN: pewpewarrows). The GitHub account that one of the other replies to my comment linked will have the project on it as well.
For corporate mail, definitely use a separate setup. Lots of options here, and it's a question of what tools your org is comfortable using. We happen to be on Exchange. For transactional emails sent automatically by our web servers, we use Sendgrid. It's been very reliable and cheap (we have low volume and are grandfathered into their old pricing plan). Just setup your Postfix to point to their server with your credentials, and go.

For newsletters that are hand-crafted, we're on Mailchimp, which as been pretty good. Their interface can be great for some people, and passable for others. It's designed to be very easy to use, but if you don't like one of their templates and need pixel-perfect control, it can be a little bit challenging. HTML editors is tough for everyone.

To protect themselves and encourage good behavior, they will issue you a warning if you get more than 0.1% abuse (spam) complaints. This is generally not a problem if you're doing a double opt-in and not using imported lists. However, it's possible to make mistakes and cause problems. We ran a survey once to people who bought X, and manually pulled these email addresses out of our eCommerce engine. We sent them an email, but didn't scrub them against all of our unsubscribe lists, which is not a feature they have built-in -- you need to download all of the unsub/abuse lists and use Excel/scripts to remove them. We got a high abuse rate and they paused our account from sending more emails until we filled our their form explaining why it was high.

Nice looking forms and default templates make Mailchimp a great place to start, especially if there's a marketing person that you can turn the whole thing over to. You can work with their APIs, which are adequate.
Right, one of the things that has to be clarified is that there are developers in the industry that should not be in it. If we isolate them away from the conjecture and only look at good developers then the question becomes interesting. Say you have two people that can and have proven that they can deliver. When you take totally bad apples out of the equation and only look at competent developers it does become an interesting question. Personally I side with paying the better developer, unless it would be the only developer. It's a huge risk when your entire development progress hinges on one person. Now in a team of 5 or 15 where delivery will happen either way. I would still opt for the 5. I believe that 3x developers can make more creative leaps from understanding a broader picture of what is being developed.
Exactly what i thought. Plus, from a marketing point of view, porting sqlserver to unix would have been suicide for Microsoft given their primary objective (for what concernes the server market) since XP is to enlarge their market to the server world. sqlserver is the main reason to have a windows machine at all if your team develops with .NET.
Very cool. I still prefer editing via the Chrome developer tools resources tab.
And now I'm wondering if the two comments below the article were purchased by the author...

There does seem to be value in Fiverr, though, especially stuff like the "fix my CSS" job. (disclaimer: I was NOT compensated in any way for this comment and I have never used Fiverr before)
Way too many actually. I basically scraped every single Fabric/Chef/Django-related boilerplate and skeleton project on GitHub to see what other devs were doing, and learn from their mistakes and successes. I follow Disqus' dev blogs thoroughly, as I consider them the current de-facto leader in terms of scaling and deploying giant Python applications.

And yes, it'll be up on my GitHub account when it's finished, and will (hopefully) hit the frontpage of HN when it's announced.
Really? A young girl dies, hacker or not. A writer who was touched by her writes about it. And the only thing worth writing is that you beat her to programming by 2 years. Bravo!

Not that this applies to you, but at what age do people learn empathy and sensitivity?
Was a huge fan of Dropbox until I went out on a limb to convince my boss to move from internal servers to a team account.

The customer service was not just bad, but noticeably absent, and the product is overpriced and relatively shallow at an enterprise level.

Still pay for a personal 50gb account, but canceled the team account...well we will as soon as they actually return my call.
Foxconn - revenue $59.3 billion, profits $2.2 billion (2010). They can't really afford to raise their costs that much. OK, a large part of their revenue might be components, but even then, they aren't exactly rolling in cash.
I don't know quite what Pakistan's cultural norms are, but I suspect that being female, the "youngest MCP" thing may have been even that much more remarkable.
The guts of SQL Server were (and as far as I know still are) a RDBMS named Sybase that MS bought sometime in the mid '90s. Sybase ran perfectly fine on Unix, just without all the GUI crap.
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I believe I read "SAMS 24 Hours to HTML" at 8-9 years of age and produced my own "replica watches" website (because i figured they were profitable to sell, and I sure wanted one :P).

I remembered getting about 80 emails from potential customers, asking my parents for their credit cards/money in order to acquire some merchandise and a domain name, and them completely freaking out (because of all the "credit cards + internet = FRAUD!" adverts at the time).

So thankful the internet has progressed into what it is now.
Not much to say until the release either happens or doesn't.
No no no not at all - Sorry if it came out that way.

On a personal level, I am deeply sorry for her death. Given time, she might have become a great programmer.

On a more general level, when I see something like this on the news, I can't help but ask myself why exactly somebody has written an article about this particular person. In this case, it doesn't seem to me that she was the prodigy they're talking about. A smart kid with a will to improve herself? Certainly. But think about the context - she came from a very rich Pakistani family. What would you think, as a 16 year old boy from Pakistan, coming from a poor family and working your bones off to make a living, coding at night, of this story? Because, you know, it's very likely that there's somebody like the boy in question in Pakistan.

Scope mixing is the bane of modern communication. You can't use empathy as an excuse to talk about anything. This personal tragedy should have remained personal, not brought up on the news. Just my humble opinion.
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How long before you think webbed-footed shoes are going to be acceptable in society?

That's pretty much the only thing holding me back from buying them or any of the funky new (curved bottom) shoe ideas, I know I would never wear them.
we do not need the GNOME3 of anything.
Please stop calling MS SQL Server just "sql server".
It's just as ridiculous as calling MS Internet Explorer just "internet".
So does StartSSL.
Keep in mind Pakistan had a female prime minister many years ago.
"When you're coding a website, nothing can be more frustrating than having to switch from the texteditor to the browser over and over again, just for small changes to occur."

And then:

"With CSSrefresh installed, all the included stylesheets are automatically refreshed directly after you save them."

So you still have to switch between your browser and your editor, right?
I use a VPS for the site, S3 due to scalability and Postmark App for all transactional based emails. It means all the little things are managed by the people who know best, allowing me to focus on what I'm good at.
Ask HN: Examples of good/bad Python codebases for reading
I am looking for some examples of good and bad Python codebases. My aim is to read through some code and learn from it. I know Django is a good example. Which other open source projects can I look at? I am open to code in any area including web apps, machine learning, networking, systems or others. Thanks!
15 Incredibly Stupid Ways People Made Their Millions
this article has a lot of truth to it, but one thing I will always disagree with PG about is that ignorance is a good thing. perhaps ignorance may produce a better local maximum than limited knowledge, but as a hacker I believe the true optimum lies at maximum knowledge.
what if i write a file-storage based simple calculation software and distribute it via dropbox( once they release public-read-only folders. ) that way, i can release my software, and receiver will get program and their data sync cross all the pc. heck, i can make same program available online, which uses dropbox files as a db as backend.
Anyone knows similar solution on the other side of the pond(Europe)?
Consider alt.folklore.computers, on Usenet.
See also http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lhefd/losethos_... and http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lhefd/losethos_... (second link from three years ago, a lot more sanity shown).
Sure being an "MCP" in the HN circle is absolutely meaningless and doesn't warrant the title "programming prodigy", but that's not the point of this article. The point is that this was a girl who came from a third world country where women are not treated as well as men are in the West, and made it to the Redmond campus based on her own ambition and drive to do something for herself.
our app is actually hosted on a mixture of phpfog and Amazon AWS. if you find a paas that runs on amazon like heroku or phpfog, then you can actually use any other amazon aws product like RDS w/o any latency by setting it up in the same region as the paas web server(s).
I'm pretty sure extraditing British citizens to the US for prosecution is illegal. British citizens are subject to British law and British law alone. Hence, he can be prosecuted in a British court and if sentenced he might be extradited to the US but there's no way he can be legally extradited before proven guilty.
I remember when the stories about Afra getting certified came out years ago. Regardless of some comments on HN about her accomplishments being over-hyped, I think we can all agree that she had a bright future and her death is tragic.
Showing up obviously is key, but the underlying issue is maintaining long term motivation. I found most people need to feel they are accomplishing something in order to stay motivated. Measuring allows that.

Another thing that trips many people up is they are unsure what to do. Having a written plan when they show up removes that hurdle. Much like having a TODO list helps many people complete them, having a written TODO list of exercises helps people to show up.

It doesn't matter if I track progress or not, because I'm not looking to "make progress". I want to be in better shape.

BTW, be in better shape is called progress. Although be in better shape isn't a very good SMART goal. While it is measurable it's not specific enough or time bound.
Thanks to everyone for checking out my article! I am an entrepreneur passionate about the spirit of an entrepreneur. We have some great stories coming out this week and hope you find them useful. Thank you again to everyone.
This gave me an idea of shipping dark rye - eastern european kind of bread.
They do have rye bread in UK, but it is completely different from the real thing.
I wasn't able to find any "lithuanian bread" online, maybe the nature of the product is difficult to ship. I think most breads shelf life is like 3 days, with some extremes of 10 days..
Construction kits with some pre-made sets is probably a good way to go. I would be interested to see if advertising on western manga or anime sites would provide better value for money.
I remember reading about this girl years ago. Like some of the other commenters I wasn't that surprised about her MSFT certification. I mean even a 10-year old can geek out on that kind of stuff, it wasn't that notable.

However I just noticed this quote from her, which is so much more remarkable for a 10-year old:

"If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind," she said. "If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind."

To me that's the amazing part of her story, and something she can teach others about forever.
No, it would be like calling Microsoft Internet Explorer just "Internet Explorer". That's what most people call it.
There's definitely a life lesson in her tragedy that's getting lost amongst folks arguing whether or not she was a true prodigy.

It seems clear that she had emotional intelligence above and beyond analytical. That should be enough.

I feel terrible for her parents. Burying a child has to be the hardest thing in the world.
> and made it to the Redmond campus based on her own ambition and drive to do something for herself.

Sorry but no. Again, I don't want to belittle her accomplishments - it's certainly a feat for any girl or boy her age to be even able to put a very simple application together, but she came from a very wealthy Pakistani family. Saying that she made it to Redmond out of her own ambition and drive is spitting in the face of all her not so privileged compatriots who are struggling to do the same.
I wear the Merrell Trailgloves, and they give much the same barefoot feel as the five finger but look like normal shoes. They are so light I often forget they are on. The zero rise from front to back also makes them great squatting and dead lifting shoes.

http://www.merrell.com/US/en-US/Product.mvc.aspx/22875M/5039...
side-by-side windows
MongoDB might be interesting for you to look at. It has geospatial stuff baked in.

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Geospatial+Indexing
Bebo may not be the Part of Ra.One Sequel..
It probably wasn't that complicated. The light gun was used as a quicker means of selecting an object being drawn on the display. It doesn't seem to have ever been used to select or draw things in blank space.

Since a vector display always knows what object it is drawing a particular time, the presence of light at the tip of the gun is all you need to identify the object.
Depends what you mean by acceptable. I work in your standard jeans-and-a-polo software shop, and there are a few people who wear them. That may just be part of the company culture though (in Calgary, so lots of hiking/biking/skiing types).

If you mean acceptable in semi-formal or even business casual settings, I would say that will just never happen.
If IE were called "Web Browser", I think we'd feel the need to prefix it with MS.
Am I not mistaken that if you hold dual-citizenship or even a Green Card but are not living and declaring income in the US that the IRS still expects you to pay tax in the US?
Japan invents invisibility cloak?
It makes total sense, thanks for clarifying.
Free ticket to the US + a possible free vacation = win! :-)

But seriously, if he gets extradited, he still needs to be tried by a US court, where a judge may decide that this is all too crazy and drop the charges.

Best of all, everything (including the prison, which is pretty expensive) is paid by US taxpayers - who's the sucker now?
we use this, i'm pretty happy with it so far
its nice when boss give you one project too many. nice, especially when you in my shoes:

- boss does not know how to manage my time. one day he doesnt give any projects then he yells nothing was done then he gives out hundreds of long projects and expect to be done right away.
- boss tells you friday morning that there is this huge project we need to finish by tuesday so no weekend (on paper i work in office mon-fri) and no holiday. then leaves to see one of his girlfriends in the middle of the day comes back 3 hours later
- boss tells you that people work 20% more time than you and in next 5 days if that would be any other company you would work 100 hours (and he is being serious)
- boss has his bonus structured accordingly to his hours he put into work. he constantly brags that he works until 1am and you leave at 8pm, despite that your working hours are 8-5 (when you reply you have family thats is wife and kids, he replies, well maybe you have a point i dont have a family, but when he says that he is proud of it).
- you leave for a lunch break for 30 minutes and your boss tells you not a good idea - "look at me, I never eat during the day, so why would you?"

and so on. so you, I would loove to have one more extra project to do, wrap it up over the weekend within couple hours and go home to kids and wife.
Being in the same position as abhaga, I would like to add: Can you also recommend projects that have very good tests?

It would be very interesting to rewind a project's and study how the tests and the code were written in parallell. Thanks too!
Its about personality and subsequent 'search pattern'. Stripe was never on the radar for most entrepreneurs, while building the next RecipeBook is. This is due to most entrepreneurs are not the game changing type whose personalities lead them to tackle such large and unwieldy issues like Stripe did.

It should be noted that the world will never know how many tried and failed to do what Stripe succeeded in.
Agree.. i'm programming in a pretty demanded field, and am motivated way more when my employer agrees to pay the salary i'm comfortable with, rather than trying to negotiate with worthless equity (exception for when the company is already profitable, several rounds of funding in, and the equity actually has a quantifiable value)
At least in my community, when you talk about "sql server" it's obvious that you're talking about MS SQL Server. In the same way, postgreSQL is "postgres" and Oracle Database is just "oracle".