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Yeah - "it ain't coming back", but is it not coming back because we don't prostrate ourselves enough, or because we don't care for our workers enough? They seem to want to have it both ways.
Kanban itself isn't key, but rather I think the key is having a plan.

Kanban is a process where you divide your work into stories, and place them on a visual board. You pull stories across the board into different columns as the story progresses. Typical columns are "ready to pull" (first column, this story is ready to begin work), "in progress", "in test", "complete". The idea is to focus on getting cards across the entire board, and having few cards in flight at a time. This is generally believed to increase productivity by avoiding the urge to multitask too much. It can also reveal bottlenecks in your team's process and generally is good at visualizing how your team gets things done. Which can be eye opening.

Since I'm all by myself, my kanban board is really just a fancy todo list. I am using http://www.agilezen.com for my board. Trello is a more well known app along these lines, but purists disagree that Trello truly accomplishes Kanban because it's missing a few key Kanban concepts (whether that really matters is up for debate).
Do you wake up with an alarm or 'naturally'?
It still worked the last time I tried it a couple of years ago. If it gives you any trouble there is FreeGlut that is an OSS API compatible work a like. Its last release was this month.
great question. would be nice to do that, going to have to somehow implement that here in the next weeks.
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The caffeine is a vicious cycle (I've been there.) When you're short on sleep, you need it to get through the day, but the side effect is you end up staying up later than you need to. Also, if you want to get to sleep, avoid screens (TV, computer) for the last hour or two before bedtime and you'll find it's a lot easier (E-ink readers like the Kindle are great for this.) It's hard to switch gears from the stimulation of TV or a game and go to sleep unless you're already overtired.

A lot of this also depends on age, I suspect... I used to be a 1AM-type person in my 20s but as I've grown older, I find I naturally wake up at 7 AM or so anyway. By 11pm or so, I'm geting pretty useless. My sense is this happens to lots of folks as they get into their mid-30s, even if they don't have kids.
Yes, thanks for pointing that out! Going to try to get that fixed today! Thanks for the suggestion!!
We need more people making this point. How did we manage to socialise up until a mere four years ago? It's still possible today without Facebook. People who say they can't quit Facebook are like people who say it's too hard to quit smoking. No, you really can. You just don't want to.
The robotic car class is a separate class, so I'm not able to answer all the questions about that one. (I am pretty sure, though, we won't be able to actually send people physical robotic cars! There will be a simulated environment, but it will use real data.)
> The excellent public services are paid for through extremely high income taxes. I am happy to pay them though as the services and infrastructure provided are exemplary.

Actually, the taxes per capita are about the same in the US and Germany. In fact, they're about the same in all of the major western countries. (Canada is actually a bit behind the US.) Average tax rates are lower in the US, but that's because the US has higher GDP per capita.

Therefore,if Germans get better services, it isn't from more tax money. Given that, it's absurd to think that US public services would improve given more money....

No - defence doesn't explain the difference.
This is one confusing thing about Kanban. The Kanban JIT manufacturing process that Toyota developed is different from the agile Kanban process used in software. The latter was inspired by the former, but they are very different.

Here is the Wikipedia article talking about Kanban as an agile process: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_(development)
that's true too. Thanks again.. I'll prob try to get that implemented today as well.
C&C is not the "grandaddy" of RTS. Dune 2 is.
People incorrectly focus on trade deficits. It has become universal wisdom that being a net exporter is the key.

America ran trade deficits during the fastest period of its growth, almost the entire 19th century. So how did we accumulate so much real wealth and production while running trade deficits?

Answer: because the profits being generated domestically outstripped the import imbalance. We had no real national debt. Debt being a killer if you have a trade deficit (countries like China end up buying up your debt as a place to park their imported dollars, then you become beholden to their interests).
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Stallman is an intentionally public person who wants you to know these things.
What's wrong with HR?
I keep of hearing of candidates trying to get in touch with hiring managers and hiring managers trying to bypass HR. It seems that way too often HR has the last - negative - word even when it comes to hire technically adept but poorly socially-talented employees, let alone the cases in which CVs go directly to /dev/null. What's your experience?
"The robotic car class is a separate class, so I'm not able to answer all the questions about that one"

Oops. Sorry about that. My mistake :). Hopefully someone from the "robotic car" class will pop in.
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> Why should we?

Because it yields a situation which the largest number of people is OK with. It maximizes the satisfaction of the people with the legal system.

> We don't hold referendums on every other issue.

We not doing something does not mean that we shouldnt. We absolutely should have more referendums.

> I'm not sure you'd like a world where politics was entirely reduced to the lowest common denominator

I'm sure I dont want to live in a world where laws directed against the population can be purchased by a few uberrich stake holders, where laws binding for everyone can be decided behind closed doors, without any legal way (other than useless protesting, campaigning, begging, etc) for the population way to get rid of unjust, bad laws and corrupt politicians.
Shops opening on Sundays is just an example - there are a number of reforms under way. Germany could use some liberalization of its own; it doesn't have all that much more economic freedom than Italy, it just functions significantly better.
I wake up at 4:30 to read for a bit and some days squeeze in 30-40min of development work. After getting ready I head out for walking between 6:30-9am (depending on the day) then head to work. This gives me room to do a little project work in the evenings.

Glad to see more early risers!
My father worked for Siemens VDO (now Continental), and I know for sure that Siemens does not any longer have any of the benefits of a privately-held company. It's become a frustrating corporate conglomerate - EBIT & cashflow is all the managers are interested in now, and accordingly, many of Siemens' sub-companies have either been sold or restructured (among them VDO, which turned out to be a very good deal for Siemens, and a very bad one for Continental).
The companies you describe above are known as Germany's mittelstand.

There was recently a documentary in the UK that detailed the success of the mittelstand and questioned whether or not it could be implemented in the UK, however I don't think that it can. The difference between Germany/UK and Germany/US is Germans give a shit about Germany.

Companies have better relationships with unions, with some union representatives sitting on the board.

Companies work with schools and colleges to train the workforce they need.

If people are made unemployed the state pays for their retraining if need be.

They have better quality hi-tech manufacturing jobs which are much less likely to be outsourced.

The mittelstand tends to care more about long term growth than being held randsom for growth in only the next quarter.

Finally, culturally, there's less of a dog eat dog attitude within German society. The UK/US boasts this kind of "fuck you I'm rich now" attitude which sees people exploit the system and then do everything they can to destroy it once it isn' needed anymore.

Edit: I also wanted to add that with unions being board members they are allowed to see the books of the company which helps them negotiate realistic deals for their members. Without board members having access to a company's books can result in unrealistic demands by the unions or the board lying about the availability of funds.
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Back in 2004, when RuneScape introduced captcha to combat SCAR and AutoRune automatic trainers, someone figured the very same system.
I remember solving hundreds of captchas and never getting any credits, which were usually traded for CC's, shell and paypal accounts.
owww, RuneScape + cheats = worst drugs ever.
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Thanks for the improvement. I've made the < modification in this commit: http://git.zx2c4.com/CVE-2012-0056/commit/?id=49174152d57ffc...

And made a separate branch for /bin/mount: http://git.zx2c4.com/CVE-2012-0056/commit/?h=mount
I think if they really wanted to hit someone where it hurts they should be targeting banking frontpages ie: where you sign in for online banking.

Since anon is basically reduced to tearing down posters they may as well tear down the posters with functionality built in.
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Well if you like things that are state owned

My post talks about family owned businesses, which is pretty much as far away from state owned as possible. I gave Volkswagen as an additional example where there's limits on the voting rights of public stock.

the government system in America owns 45% of the entire US economy

I'm talking about real corporations, that in some circumstances are running circles around their American counterparts. This 45% of the economy you talk about is almost entirely pure "losses" that are almost-but-not-entirely compensated by taxes right? The comparison is silly.
Freeglut is still maintained (with the latest release a few weeks ago), but I don't know how good it is. I've used GLFW for all my OpenGL experiments.
"HR" went wrong when they changed from "Personnel" to "Human Resources". The very name "resources" makes those people think that everyone is plug-compatible. Proceeding from that assumption, they feel they can winnow out candidates as if people were a commodity, where price and price alone lets you make a decision.

The "Harvard MBA" mindset of the late '80s, early '90s, where "management" made the difference to any business, and businesses only dealt in "product", also helped this sort of mind set along. "HR" has a "product" to churn out, at a minimum cost to the company.
From my experience of speaking at tech conferences there are a few points I don't agree with, but that may be my own experience.

1) Black backgrounds work best in a dark room but rubbish in a daylight room. I think Presentation Zen also made this point. If you can, think about having a theme switch can be easily swapped.

2) Don't fear the terminal, just fear the default colours. Modified it. More important than colours is font size - make it BIG! This is the same for your IDEs. iTerm2, increased size and full screen mode are great for presentations.

3) I think it's best to take questions there and then as other people in the audience may be wondering the same thing. If you've missed something then it's easy to fix and clarify which would allow everyone to move on with you. If you leave it to the end, people will be distracted for the rest of your presentation and that's much harder to fix at the end.

If the questions get too specific then simple say "Can we take this offline afterwards or grab a beer later" and move on.

For me the most important thing is to remember that the audience have taken there time to see you. If you have a 60 minute slot and 100 people, that's 100 hours your wasting by giving a rubbish talk. Make every minute count.
600 bucks per months is a great salary even in some european countries.
Many many people besides a public figure like Stallman have written a blog or participated in a newsgroup.

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Let's just see what can be done without Facebook:

You (pessimizer) have listed your email address pessimizer@xxxxxx .

You have an HN comment history.
Your email pops up in google under Arkansas
You commented on a Django topic.
I could infer your set of HN buddies (maybe not including myself now!).

All those methods are almost as bad as facebook for disclosing information.

If you use a pseudonym to hide from those - why don't you use a pseudonym as your facebook account??

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I haven't listed my email, but I'm pretty sure people could work out who I was and where I lived from my comment history. But I am reasonably happy that the reward of not having to screen all my comments for incriminating info is worth the risk of someone figuring it out.

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Calc() is going to be a killer feature when it gains support on iOS and Android. It seems to me that a polyfill should be possible.
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So, can you tell me what it is forstudent does?
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By the definition, you are right.

However, I looked at the list as intangible things you would require to do a startup. You wrote: "Being at least baseline-competent in all the skills on this list will markedly decrease the chances that you screw up your first business in a really obvious and easy to avoid way."

'Emotional skills' are too important not to be mentioned in anything about what you need to be successful in a startup.

We have seen how having the skill and not the emotional aspect can pan out [1]

[1] http://steveblank.com/2011/11/30/youll-be-dead-soon-carpe-di...
Another option that you should look into is switching to a four day, ten hour each day schedule. Of course your employer has to approve and I’ve seen a lot of people that can’t keep up with the long days, but if 5am schedule works for in the long term you shouldn’t have any issues with it.

I've done this for the last four years and it really works well for me. It gives me the option to work on my personnel projects on my off day (Friday for me). It also forces you to wake up early and the morning always seems productive. The best part is you can be flexible with that time, like on some weeks maybe you take a long trip or family/friend time.
Real wages in absolute terms may be higher in Germany than in other parts, but arguably, the more important measure to look at is the relative change since the introduction of the Euro. After all, at the point of changeover, the exchange rates were more or less compatible with the relative competitiveness of the national economies.

When you look at that relative change, a pretty stark picture emerges. See e.g. http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/upload/pdf/110207_HF+FS_Eurolan...

The slides are in German, unfortunately, but the graphs should be fairly clear. The first few concentrate on inflation measures. On slide 5, you see the relative development of nominal labor costs. Note in particular the deviation from the inflation target of the ECB. It is clear that Germany must accept its fair share of the blame.

The irony is that from a social and moral perspective, one could argue that adjusting wages throughout the Eurozone is a good thing. Unfortunately, that has created the current imbalances on the way, and is therefore at least partially to blame for the very high unemployment in the southern Euro nations.
And the practical differences are?
This is kind of a bummer. As a first time founder, it's not really helpful to read a list of things that you may be doing wrong (especially when there is no mention of a correct path to take - you're simply led to believe that you should do the opposite).

Another point of contention was:

We have been working on our Startup for 3 years now and there were more reasons that it should have collapsed than I can think of.

Is it possible that actually making these mistakes is how you get better? I'm all for primers and advice, but something is missing here.
Morning hours are often more productive because there's fewer distractions - the rest of the household is asleep, the phone doesn't ring, and there isn't much on TV. Not to mention that if you've gotten up two hours early to do something, you're probably going to be doing it. (I used to have to get to work at 7:30 in the morning but still found that going to the gym before was the only consistent way to ensure it happened.)

All of that aside, the bigger problem is that other things pop up during the course of the day to steal your energy and time. If you have something scheduled at the beginning of the day, they can't eat away at it. If you schedule it anywhere later in the day, it becomes the "stub" for whatever else happened that day.

One of the pieces of advice they give folks who want to save more money is to "pay themselves first" - save some money from your paycheck _before_ allocating to other things you want to spend on, especially anything discretionary. This is the opposite of what we normally do, which is "save" whatever is left over after our spending. I think folks who set up a morning routine for work or gym are basically paying themselves first in terms of time commitment.
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"don't count"

Says you.
I've been waking up at 6 am for three months now (on weekends, 6:30 or 7, depending at what time I can get to bed). I'm getti to sleep earlier than usual though - I would be a night owl myself. The most difficult part for me, actually, is to force myself to go to bed no later than 23:00 :)
thx @pwg, I usually do this but obviously missed this time
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5am sounds a little extreme.

I just arrive at work a half hour before I "should" be there. That's when I do a little code kata or read HN. Then I grab a coffee and it's work time. After work I go to the gym and coming home from that I find I have enough energy to put in another hour or two on my side projects.

However, having kids might change that and make 5am more sensible... you might at least get an hour before they're up and you have to get them ready for school.
Note that Continental (and by extension, VDO) was swallowed by the (smaller!) INA Schaeffler in 2008, but INA isn't allowed to take control of it until this year.

It will be interesting to see whether that will turn the tables again.
I cannot seem to find any information yet about what this is for other than a social network for networking between students.. do you think in general that sometimes it is better to provide nothing over something especially for a new 'social' product?
Sure - I suppose the most common form of getting them to accept lower wages is by firing them or closing the company because of bankruptcy :-(

I hope Italy gets back on track, it's such a beautiful country.
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Just rename it. Call it Corporate File Sharer or something.
"A company might reduce the hours of all workers to avert laying off an employee."

These kind of politics are probably the main reason, why Germany is currently relatively well economically. They permit to avoid large overhead costs in economically uncertain/fluctuating times.

Why companies do that? Large companies in Germany are run 50% by the unions and only 50% by the stockholders. If you want to lay of people, the union representatives have to agree. That avoids that the CEO takes simple shortcuts like mass layoff to save some money shortterm for the upcoming quarterly report. They are forced to considder the wellbeing of the employees as well, because the employees' union partially run the business.
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Thanks! Could come in handy when I start to look at cross browser compatibility at our start-up. Have been debugging issues solely in Chrome/Firefox to ensure I don't kill myself with IE issues prematurely.
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Why just confine this to eating? Even while consuming liquids: coffee (south India) and chai (all over India), you're supposed to hold the cup in your bare hands. My parents and grandparents would tell me "If it's too (temperature) hot for your fingers, it's too hot for your stomach". My parents were almost manic obsessive in making sure my hands and finger nails were clean before I touched any food and I can't remember a single instance of e-coli poisoning in my family.

In later life, in college, when I was slumming with students from the Himalayan regions of India, they carried the same belief with hot soups: cupping a hot soup in your palm before sipping on it, if it's too hot for your palm, it's too hot for your digestive tract.

By contrast, Starbucks puts a sleeve on its cups, because of which I can never tell how hot the coffee is when I'm sipping it.

Not sure, what the scientific basis is behind it, but now that I think about it in later life, it makes sense that I should be able to gauge the temperature of a drink before consuming it.
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Most people are used to install software when it is just "download, open, install". When installed, it associates with .torrent files and it is effectively as easy as clisking a link.
I'm sorry, but a lot of people are being really dense in their response to this post. They create a false dichotomy of piracy versus no piracy, as if the author's wife wouldn't make more money and stand a better chance of doing what she loves and might be great at, if the piracy were just decreased.

We can still make a difference, and a lot of people are fallaciously trying to rationalize a(n active) passivity in a discussion where the questions and answers aren't black and white.

Before Kickstarter, it was actually possible to support a person's work by buying their product. Still is.
Cool :). Forgot to say that it's a really solid site. I'm definitely impressed by the fact that you've picked up Rails so fast and implemented that entire site. Good work!
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I think you missed the good ol' NorthernLight in the list of search engines in there. Can't recollect any others.

Spot on: the term SEO was not coined, or at the least, not in any noticeable use back then in '98. :)
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Luckily they have a very good guide on how to attribute[1]. If you are using them on a site or in an App you can simply put the attributions in your about page.

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We need to repackage it. "Corporate Sharing System" sounds good. "Hey admin! You are blocking CSS !" "I.. Uh... What ?"
I did something a bit more extreme for over a year - and I have a family to contend with. But I wasn't coding, mainly product dev a(wireframes, specs, etc) and some hacking.

Schedule was:

- Hang w/family from the time I got home until their bedtime, roughly 9:30 PM.

- 2 hours of work, then 30-45 min of useless TV (Family Guy or TAR)

- About 5 hours of sleep

- Another 2 hours of work before hopping on the train

Somehow I kept this up for over a year, though it has to be said that I curtailed the workload to just 2 hours a day (and a bit more sleep) over the weekend to spend more time w/the family.

I think that's the only real guidance here - as long as you can budget adequate time to recharge the batteries, then you can keep this up for the long haul. For me, hanging with the family kept me fresh, kept me sane.
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