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Funny, was just talking about this at lunch earlier.

I've been trying to wrap my head around how to continue building my 1-person project (boxrowseat.com) in an agile-ish format. Not that I'm getting confused with the work to be done, but so that when I do bring in number 2, we can continue on the right path.

Any suggestions from those more experienced than myself?
And on the flip side:

How Employers Raid Pension Plans
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020413820457660...

Treasury dips into pension funds to avoid debt
http://news.yahoo.com/treasury-dips-pension-funds-avoid-debt...
True; they still do a minimum to keep people honest, but all those methods, to my knowledge, are already defeated if you look around. Their stick is making piracy annoying to do, along with the carrot of a long reputation of good games.
$600-$1200+/mo for 1 room with room mates in SV
$1200-$1900+/mo for 1 bedroom apt in SV
$1900-$4000+/mo for a house with 2+ rooms in SV

... from my recent housing searches on CL
this is orthogonal to the issue of “declarative versus imperative”

Wait, you're saying that I could make an imperative results-oriented language as easily as a declarative one? Perhaps the author meant "is not identical to" rather than "orthogonal"?
I think the issue is that many people would react, but when they read the emails in the thread one by one they might decide to respond before getting to the advice. Similar to what happened to me lately when I sent out information that I can't make the meeting, then some time later that I'll be there, but have to run away early, then something else again (over a couple of hours). When the recipient came to the office, he rescheduled the meeting 3 times in 5 minutes instead of reading all the emails first.

Is it bad though? Should we really expect people to process all emails at once and only then act on them?
A vacuum can be a robot. A political vacuum occurs after a revolution. A vacuum can be abhorred by nature. My vacuum has a dirty filter. In a vacuum, no one can hear you scream. Vacuum.

... uh, sorry, I got carried away.
I think you're missing the OP's point. He isn't suggesting ending postal service, but coming up with new and better services instead of trying to scare people away from email.

For many people, the post office is just an incredibly slow, junk mail delivery system. If you care about the USPS, I'm surprised you don't agree with the OP that new ideas are needed.

(One idea i'd like to see is a registered email service, so you know an email was received. The post office has the public's trust to pull this off.)
You can certainly use the CSS parts of Bootstrap with Enyo 2.0... I've been playing with that myself. Once we have new widgets, we're hoping to avoid the need to do a lot of CSS work to make great looking apps.
If the USPS wants more usage, rather than marketing, they need to "innovate" just a tad. There is a value-add service that I really wish the USPS would provide. It is very simple too...

I would like an abstraction layer for my address. I am still fairly young and move semi-frequently -- every few years. I want a static address that I can give to my bank, DMV, anything that needs to mail me things. This address will auto-forward to my current living address. Thus I will not have to update all my services when I move. It might also be nice to have multiple addresses forwarded to the same location as well; my address and my current roommates.

The format of this address could follow PO box style, or they could even invent something new (blah@physical.usps.com).

This is something that I think would be easy for the USPS to provide (mail is routed electronically, and I am basically just asking for a lookup table). This would be more difficult for "competitors" UPS/FedEx/DHL to provide, and just might bring more use to the USPS. So why hasn't the USPS done it?
"Nothing happens on an Apple device without Cupertino’s knowledge"

I hope that's false. This device runs linux.
What about Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft who already had open source projects there?
The thing I like the most about GitHub is that it puts the code first. You go to a web site, and you see these things, in roughly this order:

1. The code.

2. A descriptive readme, which GitHub has successfully trained people how to write.

3. Some miscellaneous buttons and stuff.

This definitely leads to a jump-in-and-hack approach, unlike project sites where you end up clicking through a bunch of crap to get to the code. On Google Code, for instance, you have to click on the Source tab, then a tiny link somewhere on the page, and the code browser isn't even that good.
In general I agree with you, but sometimes affordability isn't possible due to a limited market size.

Adobe Photoshop is the best example in that even if it was only $50 (instead of $2000), the market size is limited by those who want edit photos.

Adobe's answer to this was to make a student version and sell it for 15%+/- of the original price and allow those that want to edit photos but cannot afford the software still buy it for a lower price.

They further versioned by releasing Light Room.

They realized that they needed to make it affordable, but kept the DRMs in place and worked hard to make PS harder to copy. I'm sure it is still possible, but at $400 (student version) you get a lot of value and it becomes easier than pirating.
This.

Considering the vastly different uses people put different portions of Google's services towards, combining all of them seems rather counter-productive to me.

I suppose an option to partition different services into different relevancy 'portfolios' would solve the problem, but that puts a lot of burden on the user that, at least in my opinion, most users are not looking for.
Hence the *
Here are some of my friend's salaries. 1-4 graduated from the same school as me in TX in the same year, not sure where 5 went to school:

(1) $120k/yr - tester - Seattle area - large company - interned 1 yr at same large company as tester.

(2) $75k/yr - software dev - bay area - small company - interned 4 yr at different small company as software dev.

(3) $65k/yr - Java dev - Dallas, TX - medium size company - no internship experience, but competent programmer

(4) $60k/yr - software dev - Dallas, TX - large company - never wrote a line of code through University

(5) $110k/yr - M$ sharepoint maintainer - Dallas, TX - large company - n/a
But the DRM is not what's protecting themselves from piracy; it's the quality and convenience of the service. Every Steam game is trivially cracked within hours of release, regardless of the DRM, yet most people still choose to buy the game on Steam.
BackboneConf
5 paragraphs talking around "agile backlogs" before you get to the ad at the end for their forthcoming book on...guess!
Exactly. I reckon you couldn't invert the process i.e. write Ruby in 32 (short) lines of lisp.
Hacker Events to Look Forward to for 2012
They only forward mail for a year. That should be plenty of time to change your addresses. It seems that you don't though.
What is 3D printing?
I worked on digital set-top boxes about 10 years ago, at which point they cost ~ $800 per unit. I'm sure that's declined to $2-300 by now, but cable co's were recouping at $800/unit with expected lifespans of ~ 5 years.
Reason 1: past success is the best predictor of future success. With no track record you can't be evaluated.

Reason 2: there are certain things that can be only learned by experience. If you have no experience, you haven't learned those things yet.
Process will emerge, and once you take another person on it may be apparent that Agile is the exact wrong methodology for you two. So, don't worry about it. At all. Just make your stuff.
Racket and SBCL are very fast.
Do you honestly think MS's actions didn't have serious consequences? Broken companies, destroyed dreams, lack of progress? We're 5 or 6 years behind where we should have been with the web because of them. And I still buy their stuff. Good Guy Gates is a disturbing meme in my book, the greatest trick and all that.

But on to my point, you must have an extremely short attention span, do you not even remember what happened with Buzz? As it pretty much invalidates your entire point.

That big BOOM, straight in their face. Happened pretty much exactly two years ago?

People do have issues with this stuff, if you don't, and I really mean this:

Shut up and sit down.

This is serious stuff, dangerous stuff, very, very, very dangerous stuff. You don't get that. That Google engineer above doesn't get that, disingenuously comparing fantastic user experiences with tracking you and invading your privacy for better advertising.

The worst thing in life you can do is live in this little bubble of 'I don't see the problem, I wish people would stop complaining'. If you don't, don't assume it's because you know best. Learn from history, this kind of consolidation of power is bad news.

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak out because I was Protestant.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

I'm not talking about people invading your home and sweeping you off into the night tomorrow. But history has taught us time and time and time again that there's every chance that'll be happening 20 years from now.

Maybe you think I'm being melodramatic, but it's the erosion between your life and what any sort of organisation can easily take from you that has to be continually fought, be it a government or corporation.

Just be glad there's people doing it for you. But never compare it to celebrity gossip.

EDIT: I feel a bit of a fool for posting this, but in the end it comes down to this. If you knew that on average every 50 years the world get hit by meteorites somewhere, you'd build a bomb shelter. No question. You'd take precautions. We know that every few generations some force in power will go crazy and do evil things. Giving them tools to seriously screw you up now when they're not evil is not good forward planning.
One exception is multiplayer games. You can still pirate them, but you won't be able to play online with the majority of players. This makes the copy significantly worse, so Blizzard doesn't have to worry much about Starcraft 2 piracy.
>>And how it works after that? USPS just return mail to sender with no questions asked?

Yes, of course.
I'll take a stab at it. I agree with rhizome. My advice is to stay very, very simple. Just keep a to-do list. Use post-its. If you have to use an online tool, use Trello (http://trello.com)

This "future behavior" stuff only becomes important as part of promising work to be done. Since it's only you, and you're only "promising" this stuff to yourself, it kind of doesn't make sense right now. (Unless you are very forgetful or get off-track easily) If you really think you need it, each week have a "theme" or "story" that you're working on (along with everything else). Maybe one week it's "When the user visits the site, he sees all the recent activity that has to do with him so he can respond" There's a magic formula to story titles, but that's a longer post.

But for now I imagine you can track that kind of stuff in your own head. If you're worried about bringing somebody else on, I can see where it might be good to get in the habit about making clear what the goal is. You'll need it later.

As you grow, you might have several of these "stories" that you've promised to do in the next week or so. You might have a bunch more on the back burner. At that point you're into a full-time backlog. As you grow, process emerges. We can talk in generalities, but a lot of how it's going to look in the future depends on the people and the project. Learn Agile not as a recipe book, but as a conceptual framework -- a bunch of ideas and how they are related to each other -- for stuff you might (or might not) need to add as you figure out how to kick ass. RUP is like Windows, it comes in a big, nice bundle you get out of the box and take home. But it never really works perfectly, it's way too commercialized, and it's a freaking huge amount of stuff for what you really need. Agile is much more like Unix, you get a big bag full of parts and a picture of a golden mansion. You have to assemble it yourself, everybody puts theirs together differently, and you're never really done fooling around with it.
More info here on the latest TechZing podcast - http://techzinglive.com/page/921/165-tz-interview-rob-wallin...
College prices are always rising.
My first call when doing tech support at a local ISP was someone who couldn't get online. It said he was connected, his network device was working fine, he was on the WiFi and it said he had great signal, but nothing worked.

I walked him through getting to Add/Remove Programs and asked him if he saw Norton Internet Security. Told him to uninstall it. Everything works.

He asked if that made his computer less secure. I said 'Technically yes, but only because you can actually use the internet now.'

I worked at that ISP for a week, had the same problem come up three times. My mother had the same issue, and I've had two other friends who had it. Thankfully, I knew how to deal with it because it had happened to me when I bought a Dell laptop years ago.
Node.js is concurrent - you can have multiple paths of execution at the same time. It's just that Node.js concurrency has non-preemptive context switch at well defined points - function boundary, thus no need for lock, whereas preemptive concurrency can context switch at any point and thus needs lock.
>And why is the Post Office singled out for this concern? Are other government profit centers treated the same way? Perhaps the Patent Office?

It probably has to do with the number of employees. IIRC, the Post Office is one of the largest employers in the country.
There are a lot of apps in Facebook that does weight the friendships and generated images. Maybe one of them have their algorithm opened and you may use it to improve the accuracy.
And the games will be 1x as fun. Here we go again.
Wow. I didn't know they still did that.
People are using Quantum Entanglement to exchange keys.

I'm proposing a hard drive and a plane ticket.

Your critique is based upon ego alone.
What does HD Voice sound like on a mobile VoIP call?
Can't you address this by just setting up a private git repository on S3 or something?

But to the more general point: seems like a good reason to use (or make) decentralized open-source self-hosted system. Like OpenPhoto, for instance. Here's a link to OpenPhoto: http://theopenphotoproject.org/

Here's an article I wrote about the generalizability of the phenomenon: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/the-st...
Whoops I got my calculation wrong. It should be 10% indeed.
So now I wonder why a GPU is needed...
Believe it or not, cash isn't the only thing that makes people feel special.

Maybe we just want to build an amazing company.
Earth Class Mail does this, but I agree, it would be really nice if that was a standard option.
Well if you get results that you don't like, that's another problem. That's the failure of the algorithm, and the algorithm has been failing for a long time.

Without an algorithm, you'll get a list of every reference to the searched terms, unsorted in any useful way. The only way to provide accurate results is to know what you're looking for. So either users need to be very specific, or search engines need to get smarter.
GitHub is a lifestyle company. They are in the business of running the best business they can. Everything else is secondary.

Working for someone else's business doesn't fit into that model.
I knew a university professor who was installing Windows XP onto a workstation that was connected to the university network. The machine ended up infected with Blaster before he'd even finished the installation.
>The big sell of the postal service is that it costs the same amount to send a letter from San Francisco to Los Angeles as it does to send a letter from the bayou in Louisiana to Honolulu, Hawaii.

That's not a big sell if you're sending a letter from San Francisco to Los Angeles. I don't see any reason for rates not to reflect costs - why am I subsidizing other people every time I send a letter?
Has Twitter Implemented A ‘Real Name’ Policy?
I don't understand what all the fuss is about. I bet most users go about their daily lives like this is happening already. I for one, assumed that this sharing was happening already (really, it'd be silly for Google not to do it) and went about my daily life without being affected by it. Most of the 153 million Americans using Google wouldn't give a damn. At least Google is being open an honest about it, unlike other companies who change TOS without really letting the user know. FUBAR indeed.
My scheme only works if I don't die of an aneurysm first.
Partly because the benefits of Steam (infinite, fast, direct downloads; achievements and leaderboards; cloud game saves; fast patch download; occasional purchase perks such as TF2 hats) far outweigh the negatives (purchases tied to account name; only one account "online" at a time; occasionally weird/buggy "offline" support)
+googol. I just have to repeat this. Google, YOU WILL GUESS WRONG!

And my hunch is, you'll guess wrong about, oh, 8 times out of ten. Google search is the last place I go to look for something that's already one of my interests. For that I have twitter, my feed reader etc. I only google things that I have no, or little, familiarity with. Google search is supposed to tell me WHAT I DON'T ALREADY KNOW.
In fact, now when I think about it, you could use my information to make search better by LOWERING rather than increasing the rank of any result that I'm likely to already know.
CSS parent selector - GitHub
What does this exactly have to do with what I mentioned above? VC's are willing to put their money and time and energy on people with almost no experience.
Digital STBs were around $800 a decade ago, and have probably declined to a couple hundred dollars at this point. The cable companies didn't have any trouble recouping on them, they just tied the high end boxes to high-end plans (e.g. HD only, back in the early 2000s when not everyone had HD).

It strikes me as remarkably parallel to how the phone companies are handling smartphones today, bundling them with premium-level services.
Regional community cloud hubs: New way to use the cloud for business?
i think if you get a job at a large organization you'll quickly understand why VPs and directors are more experienced. ability and motivation aside, no one wants to report to someone less qualified (on paper) than they are. imagine sitting in a meeting with the other VPs. could you be effective? would they take you serious? its probably not a question of ability as much as it is maturity and cultural fit for those companies.
If I guess correctly, the question above was intending to ask which companies fall under that category. So there are a bunch who promote all or some of those values (my favorite being Mozilla for example). In general open source related companies promote open standards and stand up against software patents and DRM.

(On a side note, Apple didn't say anything on the latest development around SOPA/PIPA, simply because Apple is strongly pro DRM and they would probably support these kind of laws willingly).
Plugins/extensions are available now for both Chrome and Firefox that provide a visual indicator in the address bar:

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/how-to-ad...

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/how-to-ad...

But, to your point, these are not built-in and require a user to actually install the extensions. And of course, a user can ignore the key icon (as some ignore the lock-in and SSL/TLS popups).
Are VC's and Angel Funds stupid for well - funding companies with leaders who have basically fulfill those two reasons?
From the source:

When are the UI widgets coming to Enyo 2?

It is the very next thing we are working on, and we hope to have it out in about a month. We’ll update you with regular builds as work progresses, now that Enyo is an open source project.
Ideas are (almost) worthless. Ability to execute is the thing of value. The latter is gained mostly by experience.
Good Old Games is more apropriate example, I think http://www.gog.com/
Random note on the site theme: This detail looks horrible, adding unnecessary high frequency contrast when selected: body { text-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px; }
I've always thought that webOS was a lot more compatible with Google's vision and philosophy than Android, and I wish they had webOS from the beginning.
New seed fund for startups in education
I've come to the conclusion that AV software gets more attrocious the more you pay for it or the more it requires advertising every 5 minutes on television. They push it on you via scaremongering every day at least once.

HOWEVER, I've been using Microsoft's free security essentials package for Windows 7 for about 2 years. It never pokes you in the eye, never lets a single thing through and doesn't screw your system resources. It just keeps out of your way. As I said, it's $0 which is how much it should cost and is supplied by the vendor which knows their own security problems the best.

With respect to Linux or MacOS X, I never have installed an AV package ever.
People love Google services, but they don't like the very things that make those services great. Without knowing who you are and what you're about, they can't accurately filter spam or show you relevant results/ads. There are other spam filters, but they don't work as well because they don't know you.

Yes, Chrome sends information back to Google just like Google Search does: it tracks what searches you make through the Omnibar. Firefox does the same thing when you make Google searches in their search box.
I'm not sure this is true. The likelihood is that the contract for all the movies was signed before any of the movies, such that Radcliffe would be contractually obliged to finish the series, rather than holding development hostage at the last minute.
The difference is I don't change my email once every year or so.
I'll respond with a variation of what naner describes ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3511551 ).

Specifically with Norton, I've received warnings/quarantines where it's rather non-obvious and difficult to learn what the actual problem is. The program's interface allows one to click and drill down one or two levels, but the descriptions are often more non-descriptive than descriptive. And then one faces a link (which is, by the way, not tooltipped or otherwise designated as a link) that fires up your browser and takes you to a web page on the security software vendor's (in this case, Norton) web site.

Well, that's f-ing annoying. And then, to boot, often the page that is navigated to contains content that is little or no more helpful in telling you what specifically they detected or why specifically the warning/action triggered.

I recall one case in particular, where going through all this and reading between the lines, it appeared that the quarantine was the result of a "reputation" trigger. Norton wasn't familiar with the executable and it didn't have much or any presence in their reputation system, so the default action was to flag it a "high security" risk and to "quarantine" it.

I understand there is a balancing act. If you don't keep it simple and use strong enough language, Joe Blow user may start to disregard the warnings, until soon enough s/he has a real problem.

But as a more advanced user, this is completely frustrating. I want to know what the problem is, so that I can make an informed decision with regard to the "security event".

(And yes, on the Windows machine, I do run Norton. Comes with my only Internet connectivity option, anyway, and it makes an acceptable, and useful, component of a layered defense.)