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While I bill/quote hourly, I usually do my estimate with how many days this will take me. It took me around 2 days to finish this slider. The requirements are not long, and some sliders will take weeks to finish (if not months).
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Use C++, Fortran ,Lisp ,Scala what ever you want: just deliver good software.
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Absolutely
Great idea, I'll put it on the list. Thanks.
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So much for "Don't be evil": How Google is doing evil in Kenya
That's been working great lately.
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I know several people personally who are non-technical, and have successfully built and sold technology businesses. Sure, they had to put money in them, but they did "succeed". The point is, those startups were within their reach, because they had the funds and management knowledge to make them happen.

I am not at liberty to disclose who those companies are, however. Some, I've signed NDAs with, and others I haven't asked them if I could disclose that they used subcontractors.

Worth adding that I was the first to be surprised that they managed it. I don't believe in outsourcing your core business processes. However, whether or not I believe it, they did it.

I'm not actually advocating this as a standard model, btw. I think if you're not technical, you should start a business that doesn't require lots of technical knowledge. There are plenty of those opportunities out there.

Groupon is an example of a huge technology business that didn't require all that much technical skill to get off the ground.
Real link: https://github.com/gaving/dotfiles/blob/19d95fa1ee0461dbe4d5...

Mind you on second thoughts, I really miss the mixed indentation warning.
What is justin using for streaming these days? Wowza? Something they built themselves (I know they used a custom built python solution initially, but they moved to something else along the way). Are they using ffmpeg to transcode the high bitrate game streams to the lower bitrate streams for viewers with slower connections? It's been a long time since that high scalability article came out.
wallah does indeed mean 'By God!' in arabic but it's used as an assertion of veracity. In this context the poster obviously meant to say voila and like you I've also seen this wallah variation of it creeping in recently.
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jQuery code is embedded in the demo I have downloaded, and the goal of the demo is to show how to use the tool. I have tried to remove this code and then tabs do not work.
Actually, if you fork from the main branch, you can still pull commits from other collaborators--though I don't know if you can send pull requests to other people, haven't tried. But it is doable. There is nothing to stop you from making another remote branch that tracks another person's repo and share code that way.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly in any market except, arguably, MP3 players. The rules are necessarily different for companies that have monopolies.
I'm trying to patch the Consolas font on Windows 7 using Cygwin, installing a bunch of dependencies for it.
I will try to host it somewhere if I succeed and if no one did it until then :)
From your comment I see you have not gone through the "fun" of merging 3+ projects with varying degree of changes.
This is a nice essay.

However, the page does not seem to be intended to be linked to directly, as it is missing some vital context. In particular, the author is apparently Douglas E. Comer, a professor of computer science at Purdue. I can't tell when it was written, but it does mention the iPhone, so it's not too awfully old.

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One paragraph in the essay worries me a bit.

> Discard the idea that “thinking about computing” in the abstract is somehow more prestigious than “thinking about novel ways to design and build computing systems”.

Strictly speaking, I agree, but I get the sense from the rest of that paragraph that he wants to take things too far: that his solution to the mathematicians vs. engineers face-off is "let the engineers win". But I think that a great strength of C.S. is the short path we have from theory to practice. We can take crazy-abstract stuff like category-theoretic-based typing or the number theory behind modern encryption, and design production systems based on them.

So, yes, he is right that, if we didn't have the engineers, then none of the wonderful computing stuff out there would exist. But if we didn't have the mathematicians, then so many subfields (encryption, authentication, compression, typing, optimization, compiler design, search ranking, ...) would be dead in the water. We'd be tossing around raw bitmaps using tweaked versions of Fortran IV, and hoping fervently that no one intercepts our network packets. (Or, more likely, something even worse.) Let's acknowledge that we need both kinds of people.
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The other two comments are (correctly) describing what a magnet link is in the sense of its implementation. On the off chance that you wanted a more abstract/basic description, a magnet link is defined by what you're linking to, as opposed to where it is.

This is kind of cool, because a file can change locations (how many times have you seen a dead link/File Not Found?), and with a magnet link, if you have a file that matches the description, you can be reasonably certain that you've found the right file (unlike the URIs you're familiar with, which can change the content stored at each location). On the flip side, actually finding the file from the description is a bit more complicated, but as you can see, it's still pretty easy for the user when implemented correctly.

It's better for TPB, because they're no longer telling you 'where' the file is, just what it 'looks' like. Legally, I'm sure that makes some difference.
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It seems absurd, but if you can't be happy and productive while accepting these thoughts, you weren't ever really happy; just in denial.

Sure, acceptance can lead to happiness. It can also lead to madness.

For an example of "dark buddhism", see Thomas Ligotti's "The Conspiracy against the Human Race".

http://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Against-Human-Race-Contriva...
Yes, but the point is you have to buy a ticket with your real name. You can't board the plane unless the ticket is in your name. If it is in your name, you get stopped at check-in.
It looks great but how can I play it?
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Ask HN: Startup naming
Hi,

my cofounder and I are about to start a startup: we have a good impression, how our MVP might look like and we also have a quite clear & partly validated view, who might buy it for the first service. (which is a service for individual consumers btw.)

The issue is: we don't have a proper name for the startup yet and ask for advice on how to go on there. (we found that even other companies use e.g. interesting URLs ;-)

We have a good naming for the first service, which will grow out of the MVP, but we feel that putting the name of this first service on top of the whole company might limit us later. (as future planned services would not quite fit under this name)
Customers for these other service (likely) wouldn't search for us under the name of our first service. (but this is an untested assumption) We expect only a little or no overlap between the customer segments of our services.

So we see the following options:
- start the first service as a standalone service (with own url etc.), coin it like "XYZ - a service from ABC company", and (maybe) connect the web presences of the different services later.

- come up with the current company naming proposals (even if they are not the best names), establish a company web presence and put all the services below it (like XYZ-Service.ABC-company.com) and (perhaps) rename the company later.

What is your advice?
Are there other good/bad examples, where a company markets its products in a standalone manner?
Do you specifically have any hints, on how to deal marketing-wise with domain name changes?

Kind regards,

Daniel
Wait, what? Are you saying barcodes aren't used in the US? Here in Norway at least all major handling agents issue boarding passes with barcodes, so you can board a (domestic or intra-Scandinavian) flight without interacting with anybody human except the security agents just by scanning the barcode at the gate. No idea if it's also used for security purposes, though.
Already being discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3458261
I'm confused, why does this matter?
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Give Yandex a try. The results would be stale too but at least it looks nice.
> Perhaps even better, without the torrent files everyone can soon host a full copy of The Pirate Bay on a USB thumb drive, which may come in handy in the future.

I've been saying this for years: governments playing an arms race with hackers is like playing Whack-a-mole or cutting of heads of hydras. Every time you block one means of communication (starting in this case with Napster), a new, more decentralized, harder-to-combat protocol is going to emerge. Even if you're the MPAA and don't like copyright violations, you have to face that fact. That doesn't mean you (necessarily) have to throw in the towel and abandon the idea of copyright infringement altogether, but it does mean you need to start being creative instead of engaging in a direct legal-technological battle - an arms race.

I wonder how long it will take before the big players realize this and try to figure out a way to use this new playing field (the Internet) to their advantage, instead of trying to squelch any technological development so that they can cling to old models of payment and distribution. It was nice while it happened, but let's face it - we're past the point of no return. Even if they everyone hosted their own copies of TPB on their thumb drives and then they found some way to shut that down, I'm certain there'd be some hacker smart enough (like gojomo above) to come up with something that just makes things even less centralized, more difficult to track, and more difficult to shut down.
You're right, but this is a terribly inappropriate example.

The 'terrorists' in this case were holding Beslan School to ransom. No one expected that the Russians (fascists in every sense of the word) would put all their effort into securing a Pyrrhic victory.

Sorry this is so off-topic, but someone had to stand up for Chechnya - one of the most damaged, brutalized, traumatized, forgotten countries on Earth, a blight on the 'ideals' of every 'civilized' nation.
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In theory (assuming that there are links to everyone, and no way to have separate networks) (it's of course a theory only, but seems very likely that there are "massive users", who have files of "every kind", connecting the different groups), as long as you both connect to one who is connected, it will work.

Although this is quite the extreme case, and not really the purpose for Bittorrent to begin with, I guess. The main interest is load balancing of popular downloads, not finding the one person with the one file for you.
Why? What would the point of the .torrent files be if the magnet links are still there?
I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo, but I gave up after a few days. DuckDuckGo's results were very good for popular/mainstream terms, but Google is much better at deep "needle in haystack" searches.

When was this? It's gotten a lot better for me.
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What confuses me about this guideline is it suggests the back button behaves the same way as the new up button introduced in Honeycomb?

This is what I was told at the Android developer labs in Paris last November, in a Session about Ice Cream Sandwich Design:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html#...
Not THAT non-trivial. I built overlapping tabs using images and JavaScript in 1997 - that wasn't more than a few hours' work (couldn't have been - I have the attention span of a door handle).

http://www.wittenburg.co.uk/mobile

Click "Handsets" on the top menu.

Select any phone on the left.

Tabs are shown on the right.

[Edit] Not saying joshuacc's CSS version is trivial. It's not. And it IS impressive!
Ha! If anything GitHub is doing more to keep Open Source development alive and healthy than any other company.
It's very simple:

(setf (cffi:mem-ref (cffi:make-pointer #xDEADBEEF) :int) #x42)
IANAL but you don't need opt-out for transactional emails.
This site is really useless. As an android developer I was hoping for more steps rather then another marketing docs. Its funny how little android provides out of the box and I have to just keep searching source to find how things are implemented and best way to implementing such designs. Sad state of affairs as I have to waste most of my time trying to understand these designs and corresponding code designs in source.

Another thing I hated about the website is how sparse it is in technical details.
If Google really hopes us to make use to these pattern why not release some of these as widgets or templates.
I asked there, I also ask here. It seems he lives in Germany. Somebody knows how much he gets after taxes? He probably has also to pay for pension (~16% - ?) and health care (~ 15% ).
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His issues sound more like issues with open source project governance. Github has just made it easier to contribute, and thus it is becoming clear that good open source projects have good governance. The owner of a project on github is not the only one who can merge pull requests, they can add multiple collaborators on a project...

If anything it does highlight the need for more people to form collectives around projects and use the organisation tools to own the projects...
In Canada (and Europe), the gate agents check your BP against their list (in fact they just scan the 2DBC and it boards you in the DCS system) and your ID. So you would get stopped at the gate.
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Kenyan business directory asks "Google, what were you thinking?"
Retro-validation appeals to me, so it could be interpreted as:

and - truly, I swear by God I am not making this up - I was granted a ticket with that exit row seat

In English, it's an old-fashioned idiom that a Robert Louis Stevenson character might have used. But English-speakers tend not to swear by God much these days - indeed, "swearing" usually means profanity.
Now that's only an option, if users understand what will happen and why they should change this setting. "Manage Back Button" is not an understandable option. So instead of solving the problem you just defered to the user. That's not design, that's just lazy.
An analysis of Google's "evil" behaviour in Kenya
Wow, no offense dude but this was a really crappy post.
This problem have existed for all eternity, just as other people are stating: There are a lot more projects, people who contribute and transparency of those than before.

And choosing that title. It just seems you are writing one of those. "Look at me! I am writing something controversial"-articles
I experimented with this, and have flown within Canada with a foreign (non-US, non-European) driving license. There was no verification other than checking the name matched the boarding pass, if I remember correctly.
Path: "The smart journal that helps you share life with the ones you love."

That tells me a lot.

Why don't they say something like "Trying to be Facebook and/or 4sq alternative with a focus on a/v that only works on mobile and is focussed on location. Really we're not sure of what we are and that's why we called ourselves Path."

I watched the video, is that what it is?
Google, what were you thinking? Do no evil?
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Some questions...

I'm starting a full time development job soon but want to get into web development and do some freelancing to earn some extra side money. I know it will take some investment (mainly time and commitment) but I am willing to do it but need some guidance/opinions...

1. What languages should I learn/focus on and are in most demand? (eg. ruby, php, python?) I don't quite understand which languages are best for server side and which for client side.

2. How much can I expect to earn (hourly)

3. Any tools/books I should start with to help me jumpstart?

4. Any other suggestions or technology I should consider learning and freelancing?
This doesn't surprise me in the least. I've been in India for the last month, and I've been shocked by two new things since my last visit (several years ago).

First, security here is everywhere.

Second, security here is pointless.

I have had to walk through security to get to supermarkets, discount stores (think Walmart), high-end shopping malls, temples, mosques, movie theaters, national monuments, airports, hotels, you name it. You can't walk into a large building and not walk through a metal detector. The ACLU would probably go ballistic if the US had even 1% of the number of pat-downs that I have had to go through daily here.

Unfortunately, it's entirely pointless. Generally, I don't take my belt/jewelry/phone off when going through the metal detector, and most of the time, it doesn't even detect that. Whether or not I set off the detector, the process is the same: they (occasionally) wave a wand over, and then send me to a second person who briefly pats me down (<5 seconds in all). Keep in mind, the exact same process is applied to those who do and do not set off the metal detector. A few times, I've set it off and they just wave me through without even checking me further. It's mind-boggling.

I can't say I'm a fan of ubiquitous security, but the only thing that's worse than ubiquitous ineffective security. Anybody who really wants to cause trouble can bypass it in their sleep - all you manage to do is disrupt the lives of everybody else, all the while accomplishing literally nothing.
Of course the real problem isn't which back button behavior too choose, it's that there's a choice to be made at all.

Both back button behaviors are perfectly valid and convincing arguments can be made for each, so the choice is pretty much arbitrary. But if Google doesn't enforce any particular behavior and leaves it up to the developers, the only possible result is confusion.

Additionally one could make the argument that the whole back button concept itself is inherently confusing, precisely because the right choice of behavior isn't obvious.
From expriance (I work for a big publisher) the split between G Y and B looks about the same for the big name sites I work with. Google is even more dominant 90%+ in the Uk
As a startup you can effectively build only one brand (and even this is quite hard), so even if you chose a second name for the company, don't put too much stress on it. You'll be selling the service's brand all the time.

You don't want to water down the message by introducing clutter (i.e. two brands). And also, people won't care.
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I dont know how "bored" feels like. Ever since i started working as a developer, i must have lost that feeling. I am constantly working or learning new concepts. When i leave the office i walk for like 5 minutes to the train. Then i start reading my RSS Feeds. When i arrive home, i eat and start coding for fun.

I am the perfect candidate for a burn-out. I know this for sure. And my doctor too.
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My parents are Middle Eastern Jews from Iran and Iraq and my understanding of their use of wallah is to mean "for real?" or "surprisingly so!"
I'm not saying I am an absolutely a fanboy or anything. I'm not. But the innovation they brought to iOS is undeniable. Just like Twitter brought about the pull-to-refresh.

Maybe this scroller widget will be adopted widely, who knows.
Really? I've heard both that claim and it's c.ounterclaim several times and come to the conclusion that it's an interesting yet ultimately futile discussion.
Realy? Panda has sent some medium size companies to the wall and being made redundant is not fun even less so in The US
Honestly, it does next to nothing. It's probably better than literally nothing, but if you can spare the 2 minutes to make a phone call, it's a much better use of your time.

I posted this a while back:

>Congress uses multipliers to figure out how predictive each piece of communication is (ie, how likely it is that a certain piece of communication will result in a change in voting behavior).

> I don't remember the exact numbers, but the hierarchy goes (in descending order): in-person visit to DC office, in-person visit to local office, physical handwritten letter, physical typed letter, phone call, email. The multiplier attached to email is close to zero.
(The exact method varies by congressman/senator, but the relative rankings are the same throughout).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264561
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Is there any android hardware out that could make good use of this?

I'm thinking a phone with a mini-HDMI port, so whereever I go I can just connect it to any real monitor which is to hand. If the thing can act as a USB host, add in a micro-USB to full-USB dongle, and I can connect a real keyboard and mouse too.

What'd be even nicer would be a deck-of-cards sized "docking station", which could have 4 full USB ports (keyboard, mouse, thumb drive, spare), VGA out, and wired ethernet.
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I wonder how they'll avoid the "second-system effect". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect)
Kent - I am familiar with "jScrollPane - cross browser styleable scrollbars with jQuery and CSS" http://jscrollpane.kelvinluck.com/

Good luck.
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I read your comment and thought "surely that's changing over time and we're trending towards younger legislators."

So I went looking and it turns out I'm completely wrong. Check it out -- the WSJ did this interactive chart that shows Congress hit a low in the early '80s and has been aging ever since:

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-CONGRE...
> List<int> uses an actual array of integers as its backing store instead of an array of objects that contain boxed copies of the integers.

Yes, that's what I meant with specialized collections :)

BTW, I didn't know about the awesome NGit, automatic conversion from Java is really impressive!
unfortunately Googles arrogance is leading it to do just that just like MS did - it will all end in tears.

Trust me as some one who worked for a regulated company you REALY REALY dont want to go there - develope a product and your not sure if the regulator will let you launch it
The ticket has a barcode, but it's usually scanned by the airline before you board the plane. The TSA checker just looks at your ticket and your id, no computers involved.