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We have to work among the group of people for which this behavior is standard procedure. We are reminded daily of how insane, sociopathic, and child-like middle managers can be and that it only gets worse (far worse) the further up the chain. If I were working at a place where someone didn't expect this behavior I would think that person was very inexperienced. If I found a company where management didn't behave like this, maybe because it is relatively young, I would expect them to start misbehaving within a few years as the sociopaths start working their way into the corporate structure.
You're overestimating the size of MegaUpload.

Most people had never even heard of it, and if you want to store something valuable permanently then it should be obvious to put it in multiple locations.
Yes, it should be, but in reality the UI usually seems to see the least attention for optimization of this sort, for one, because I think it tends to have people working on it who aren't necessarily true programmers, they are more of designers who do some JavaScripting, and also the company is much more concerned with not wasting the memory on their own servers, they figure that if its just taking up load on a client machine its not as important. Its a bad approach and I will often refuse to use a site if it has bad client side performance / seems like a memory hog but thats just the way things are now
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Ahh, those are from the History.js pushstate functions. What browser are you using?
I use the bus in London. At commuter times everyone on the top deck has smartphones or ipads; you can get bandwidth on the bus unlike the subway. About half of all uk bus journeys take place in London. You need a lot of capacity to make bus systems good.
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I agree with the author that learning and becoming handy with git cli is very important.

I don't agree that you should stop using a GUI for git, especially if you've already cut your teeth on the command line. Tower, a git GUI for Mac OS X, has a great interface and ties in very well with the core git functionality. I've learned a lot about stashing, merge conflict resolution, and cherry-picking, thanks to that app. Also, Tower shows a tree graph, similar to the network diagram the author "seriously cannot live without."

Why knock visual tools when when you rely on them so much?
Platform proliferation is ruining the online marketplace.
I don't understand the thinking behind this scheme. I mean, for example, $1 per year isn't even enough to justify the trouble of collecting it.
You have never heard of a football player being cut from a team? Or being offered a one year contract?

I am saying there are legal ways to prevent an employee from leaving a company but it costs the company money to have that privilege.
It looks like it's Pentadactyl (an addon to use Fx with Vim-like key bindings) which provides this behaviour.
Last I heard it had been delayed because of a dispute over how to hang the cables.

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/01/17/3376648/dispute-over-ho...
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What does "steal from HN" even mean? The blog example isn't valid: nobody is taking shows and putting their names in the credits (at least, pertaining to this conversation). Coupons and phones are physical items that have very different rules and mores associated with them.
> Give everyone a Mininum Guaranteed Income, automate what can be automated with frickin' robots, turn most desk jobs into remote jobs, and let everyone else have a ROWE (Results Only Work Environment).

As the old saying goes, an idle mind is the devil's workshop. Productive work gives you a sense of accomplishment and purpose. People who don't have that, often turn into troublemakers of one kind or another.
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All right!:) Cheers for your reply.

I don't believe UX designers will leave paper. We are not using paper now because we have bad software, we are actually using paper because we sometimes want to keep ourselves away of computers (tablets counts as well).

90% of UX designers use paper (according to research by Todd Zaki Warfel).

Adobe learnt that recently. They did app very similar to yours and didn't succeed much. Personally don't know single UX designer using it. And they put a lot of money into marketing.

http://www.adobe.com/products/proto.html

It looks shiny and cool, but it's useless in UX design process.
master on your local repo is a different reference to master at origin and master at other developers machines. By merging your master into origin/master instead of rebasing, you leave the history looking like multiple branches were merged together.

By rebasing onto origin/master instead of merging, you leave the history looking linear.

Ultimately it's about aesthetics, you don't gain anything by rebasing (when pulling) other than a cleaner history.
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Hello HN. I've got an interesting idea for a side project, but I'm a front end guy with zero programming knowledge. I see neat side projects frequently on HN, and of course they're almost always fully self coded from the ground up and created with something like App Engine or Heroku.

I could easily start my idea out on something like Tumblr or Wordpress.com, but my question is: Is it possible to still be taken legitimately as a site/service if my idea was to use one of those? Or would I be laughed off of the internet/HN for appearing amateur? At some point when I'm able to pay a freelancer, I'd want to have the site built from scratch and self hosted - but I don't have that option at the current time.

I've heard that Groupon started out on Wordpress, but I'm sure they still had large amounts of custom plugin development. Are there any other startups that started this way?
This is even more true if you think about multiple languages. I often publicly write in Italian about Italian politics, and in English about technology, and I don't want to "spam" my English followers with content they can't read (and much less care about), but I also want my posts to be public for the Italian users. This is the most important use case that G+ isn't addressing right now, imho.
So is any of this criminal that one or more of these execs may goto prison?
It is true that they are owned by the same groups (e.g. the Bertelsmann Group) and that's somewhat relevant but I wouldn't think that has too much importance. These companies exchange owners very often. I'm repeating myself but the woes of these industries are so immensely different in nature, the only thing they share in common is that they blame piracy for their problems, for better or worse.
Why would I purchase this as opposed to using http://www.sleepcycle.com ?
Something tells me MPAA and RIAA will desperately try to make the US Gov take down TPB's site now too.

Piracy scares them, but real competition at this level where they can actually poach popular artists from them must terrify them.
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I love git. It helps me to wake up in the morning some days. But...

The OP's attempt to visualize git concepts falls quite short. This same old branching graph does little to nothing to illustrate these concepts. I cannot tell you how many friends and colleagues threw up their hands when someone tries to graph it out these way.
My understanding is that it keeps the history cleaner at the expense of being "historically correct". It's cleaner because you have fewer merge commits, but less historically correct because it makes your commits look like they happened after the commits pulled in by rebase.

Personally, I use merge (with --no-ff) vs. rebase. The only time I actually use rebase is to squash a series of (unpushed!) commits on a feature branch, and I usually only do that if I went hog-wild, committing more than necessary while experimenting.
When I visit chrome://memory-redirect/, I see this message:

(Bug: We seriously overcount our own memory usage: Issue 25454.)

Issue 25454: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25454
I don't much use QR codes, but when I want to go to a URL I got in email, and it looks like that, even if the email otherwise seems legit, I just type in the URL to the real site directly. Clicking on such a link feels like deliberately falling for a phish.
Actually I am shit surprised. Is there any chance of this becoming criminal?
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I prefer this version http://dubroy.com/blog/a-hierarchy-of-needs-for-code/

I don't think either is spot-on, but it is a good way to visualize and remind yourself of what is important in your project.

Even the projects themselves have their own hierarchy. Do I care that the one-off crud app the boss asked for to update some reference tables ever reaches the "Enlightened Phase"? Probably not. I don't think I would get any "Actualization" from that.

But that browser based game I am writing at home? Or a library my colleagues are going to use at work? Or some crud app that is going to be used extensively by people everyday? Then I think it is worth it to look at those projects from the point of view presented here.
They keep talking about releasing iplayer as a global subscription service. It will clearly happen sometime soon.
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For a really good explanation of what is going on, I highly recommend Brian Roemmele's quora post:
http://www.quora.com/JCPenney/Why-did-Ron-Johnson-leave-Appl...

Not sure if he was at Johnson's press event or not, but he has pictures from it and explains in detail Johnson's new strategy for JCPenny. Looks like a good bet to me.
I'm not certain this is due to the particulars of the workflow of the team I was working with, but one of the benefits I saw of rebasing over regular merging was that rebasing let us resolve conflicts at the point of the commit in which they emerged, rather than in a merge commit at the end.
I've tried a number of gui tools for git but I keep coming back to the command line. You can format your `git log` output to give you your network graph and `git add -[pi]` allow me to stage hunks of diffs much like a GUI tool might.

I think more than what tools you use (gui or command line) it's really useful to get an understanding of gits internal model. It informs day-to-day use and is a great example of an elegant, well-designed system.
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The reason for $1 per year is twofold:

(1) It's low enough that it doesn't exclude anyone. If it was $10,000 per year or some other large amount, it would exclude a significant number of people.

(2) The aim of registration is not to extract fees. It's to make sure that works are registered; as soon as an organization goes out of business or loses track of what it's claiming, it forgets to register it, and it's public domain permanently.

Point (2) reveals a flaw, which is that organizations would spring up to do the registration (you'd pay them $100 and they would keep the registration going for 100 years). That's why the copyright holders' real name and address is required -- so that these intermediaries need to keep track of the claimant. You might also try banning such intermediaries, if that would work.

It's not bulletproof, but it's surely better than the current case where long-abandoned works rot on floppy disks that can't legally be rescued.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/248571/why_history_needs_soft...
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Yup, I've posted more often recently. Mostly because I am running Flagons Den so am using the OC list to keep in touch with those who want to get pitch practice through Flagons Den. Are you coming on the 7th?
No one in the US would expect tohave to pirate a US program from abroad before first run. In the rest of the world it is just routine.
So who stayed to work for that boss?
Instead of complaining that your RAM is 75% allocated, you should be complaining that 25% of it is unused. (Imagine buying a processor and noting that it never went above 75% utilization.) Memory deallocation isn't free (it's often not even cheap), and it's completely wasted work if the application is closed. In addition, for every allocation that's not unnecessarily deallocated, you don't waste cycles redrawing bitmaps, reparsing text, redecompressing images, and so on.
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I want to put something like that map in our app and can't find anything. Anyone know how this was done or any plug-and-play options to reproduce? Thanks!
My name is Loïc d'Anterroches. This relatively old, from disputed origin, French forename is not widely used. I can understand your reaction if reading my username brought memories of fighting against a DOS attack.
>> Or would I be laughed off of the internet/HN for appearing amateur?

No you won't. Not on HN at least. Be yourself and make what you love, everything gonna be alright.
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I concur. Requiring likes (in wording, even though technically there might be no enforcement) as a payment method for a service is a bad idea. The like is not customisable so you're basically putting words into your customer's mouth.

I'm not sure how I feel about "Pay with a Tweet", but at least people can actually customize the message to reflect what they thought of the service.

I would rephrase the "Already liked us?" to "Skip this step" or something like that.
Actually, I'm uncertain about whether I really want the problem of centralized healthcare records to be solved. If it is, it means that my healthcare records could easily fall into the wrong hands

Making sure this doesn't happen is part of the problem definition. I'd expect something like client-side encryption to be an essential piece of the puzzle.
i do agree, but also eager to get the likes in. may a/b test like to download/suggeting a like after download.
If you're seriously basing consumer-friendliness on the ability of a two-year old to operate it, then I'm sorry, but I fundamentally disagree with your idea of consumer-friendly.

Also, if you can teach a 2-year-old to put a disc into a player, you can most likely teach him to click on (or touch) an icon in a digital media library. There's no difference. None at all.

>When you buy a disc, it's yours. No remote server can deny you access to it on a whim.

Again, that is not a problem with digital media, that's a problem of people trying to control digital distribution, which is impossible. I have loads of nice .mkv (and some older .avi and .mp4) files here, in addition to a huge music library, and short of a double harddrive fault, nothing can deny me access to them.

Many physicals disks have copy-protection schemes, too, by the way. What if the industry for disk players decides to not make any players anymore that can play disks with a certain copy-protection scheme. Or switch to a new format of storing media, as they did quite a lot of time in the past. It's the very same thing as a "remote server denying you access". There's no guarantee you'll be able to play these disks you own in 5, 10 or 20 years. I have that guarantee, because short of the complete replacement of the general purpose computer, I will be able to play my aforementioned media collection.

>There was an old saw "don't underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon stuffed with magnetic tapes." Until we get consistent >25Mb/s streaming cheap, you're not going to see Bluray-quality video from Netflix et al ... but a 2-year-old can deliver it in seconds.

Netflix (and other streaming services) are as much part of the problem as physical media are. Streaming is DRM, no matter how you turn or twist it. You pay per watch, and you don't own what you watch. And again, I'm not paying for something that's cost-free to begin with (distribution). Distribution-based business models are dead, and trying to save them will only lead towards more shit like SOPA, ACTA and the DMCA, which hurt the internet and Free Speech.
OpenVZ is tricky, they are patching the kernel pretty deep and this creates a lot of hard to debug issues. I had a lot of troubles with containers running software mapping big files like MongoDB.
It is okay to want to do illegal or unethical things. That is pretty human.

It is another thing to actually do them.
QR codes present a much lower barrier to entry though. That means they can be acted on before it occurs to the target that they should think about what they're doing.
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We're going to see more and more of this as time goes on. Artists are waking up to the fact that the RIAA/MPAA are preventing them from interacting with their audiences directly. You're making a very bold statement that speaks straight to your fans when you align yourself with TPB (and also send a very direct message to the MPAA/RIAA). Good for him.
Try to think about this from an optimizer's standpoint. Here are some excellent reasons why giant memory footprints are a good thing:

1) Freeing memory is expensive. In order to do it properly in a running process, you need to check that each piece of memory is not in use, and that typically requires traversing large graphs. It's only something you want to do when absolutely necessary. (Hint: it's not necessary when you have 16 GB of RAM.)

2) RAM is really fast. Things in memory can be read in a few CPU clock cycles. On disk, you need to wait for a plate of metal moving at 50 mph to swing by.

3) It's totally free! It's not like unused RAM can enter power-saving mode or anything. If your RAM usage isn't at 100% you are wasting valuable space. This isn't a checkout lane where lower usage is a win for everyone. It's like an everlasting candy fountain: it all rots if you leave it, so get the whole neighborhood in for a piece.

So honestly, what are you complaining about? So chrome wants to cache hour-old pictures just in case you hit the back button 45 times. What's the big deal? YOU HAVE 6,600,000,000 FREAKIN' BYTES LEFT! You could probably fit Project Gutenberg in there. If and when you run out of memory, and pages take 15 seconds to load because your hard drive is swapping like crazy, then you have a problem. But you won't have that problem. And just because chrome is taking up 3 GB at the moment doesn't mean it won't be a nice citizen when the operating system starts to cry about low memory, which it won't do because YOU HAVE 6 MORE GIGABYTES.
Exactly, the people that invest a lot in music or films are in general people that understand the value of having a physical object which is a piece of art. I personally think vinyls are the best medium for music in terms of quality and longevity. MP3's are useful but they suck! Same with movies,who would want to collect screeners?
Really cool of you to say that. It's interesting as well cause there have been a number of topics on HN recently about the increasingly negative trend in general feedback.

I certainly hope that people like myself and FredBrach can think of engaging on here without being 'laughed off'.
Would this work if the author/artist were not as famous as Coelho or Louis C.K.?
I routinely open more than 30 tabs on Chrome on both Windows and Ubuntu. I have 4 GB. I have had problems on Ubuntu, but never on Windows.
I suppose, at the end of the day. It is all about an individual's preference. The gift of Linux is Choice. Having said that I've used Arch for the past 4 years or so and I have to admit that, for me at least, it is a beautiful thing.
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Ya! you are right you may not need a root password to perform all the tasks and at the time of installation of wny application it will ask for the root password which directly installs it.

What I want to convey is that when you have logged into root then it does not always ask you for the root login password at the time of installation and can easy perform functions like init to shutdown or restart via CUI
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Also, it would be great if you put course notes text besides videos.
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The most interesting aspect is Paulo Coelho's claim that ".. the physical sales of my books are growing since my readers post them in P2P sites". This is in agreement with what web applications used all along---lure users with a freemium model---and a certain portion of them will eventually buy the product.
"If you're not willing to walk away, you're not negotiating -- you're just having a conversation about salary."

A thousand times yes, and worth reiterating: if you're not willing to walk away, don't even start.

At a previous position, I requested a pretty steep raise, but with the following in hand: a solid job offer from a competitor at the desired rate; and willingness to settle for a smaller raise but more time working from home.

The main thing, though, is to get something out of the negotiation, because settling for the status quo permanently weakens you in management's eyes and will hurt you in future negotiations. Better to just leave.
I browse with 1.5 gigs, with both firefox and chrome open. Firefox will have up to 30 tabs, and chrome up to 20. I can still browse fine.

Edit: Debian minimal install using the Awesome window manager.
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Could you please provide feedback and let us know what do you think of our idea? Also, provide feedback on the design?

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this was a question I had - how do you have your QA,testing,staging setup to test branches ? Or is fast and frequent commits (by design) eliminate the need for the commit-deploy-test cycle and replace it with a review step instead ?
Consider what can be done with a punycode'd URL here, too.

Mix a QR with a little punycode and you easily can end up anywhere, even if you do (quickly) review the URL before the jump.
I absolutely did not write the article to piss anyone off - I am a developer who has spent my fair share of time trying to build checkin apps, etc. If anything, the post simply reflects my frustration that I can't use my skills to address glaring inefficiencies in my daily life.
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And in fact the memory isolation between javascript execution contexts is one of Chrome's most touted security features.
Any more tips for speeding things up/keeping RAM low?

How about once those 50-100 tabs crash, do you have an open link backups strategy or just hope restore catches it all in time?