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So latimes.com's article blew it out of proportions.
2% chance of disaster is not nearly the same as "so certain was he that the shuttle would blow up."
So... one should never use features that aren't already in the standard?

Sure, that's one approach. But what if you want one of those features?
The authorization request that the google maps flash SDK issues to google fails when it's issued as an https request. The HTTPS everywhere plugin forcibly changes the request type, thereby making it fail.

AFAIK there's no way to fix it on our side.

(I'm one of the devs on weatherspark)
I was a bit underwhelmed too. Both because the menu button isn't always in the same place anymore, and because the back button doesn't interact in the expected way with the new way of switching apps.
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Sometimes I feel like it's a total crap-shoot with getting interviews at some of these large companies. There were quite a few positions available in the DC Metro area that I was probably more then qualified for or at least qualified enough to get a phone interview. Needless to say, I was never contacted. It's good to know that some people actually get to a phone interview :)
hah sorry :\ Just refresh and it should load. Time for a new server.
I agree with you that the one who will get the favor done wont be interested in buying the solution. It also depends of course on the favor...(i.e. reviewing code cant be done twice in a row since each problem is going to be different).
However, the following people that have the same problem maybe will. Lets say the initial favor costs 1 USD and the solution 50 cent....then you might opt for the solution.
Didnt Amazon have a small-task service? You might also check out mightybell.com for some inspiration on that...
It seems so strange now, but remember, the Berlin wall only fell in November 1989. Even in 1991, the communist threat was still very much on people's minds.
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Shameless alpha-testers-wanted plug:

I'm launching a website authoring collaboration tool based around Git. Let me know if you're a git fanatic who needs to build fairly simple sites from time to time, and maybe you can try it out and give me some feedback!

Figured this wasn't completely off-topic, as I'm building Yet-Another-Use-For-Git :-)

matt.beale@madhatted.com
Per another post at 9to5mac you are reading it correctly.

http://9to5mac.com/2012/02/09/steve-jobs-fbi-file-reveals-he...
... and most computer languages are turing equivalent, yet people prefer different ones ;)

Seriously, yes, all the data is freely available in some combination of text and graphics on the internets - the pitch here is the presentation, aggregation and ease of exploration.

(disclosure: I'm one of the weatherspark devs)
A starter kit is a good place to start.

Edit: ARDX is supposed to be good http://www.oomlout.co.uk/starter-kit-for-arduino-ardx-p-183....
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I think at this point they were selling their image processing systems to intelligence agencies like the CIA and NSA.

IIRC, the NSA bought a lot of NeXT systems, and he had to get a clearance for that too. Or maybe this was the same clearance.
I am a recruiter and I wouldn't worry about a thank you letter. Honestly, I have only seen three candidates write thank you letters to one of our clients after an interview and in all three instances it actually hurt their chances of moving forward.

In fact two of the candidates were passed on simply because of what was in their letter, it didn't express enough of a desire to move forward and they seemed more like a resignation letter.

Be safe rather than sorry, and skip that unnecessary process.
Mark Zuckerberg?
I would be very surprised to find dog fighting in most of Western Europe. (The UK might have some)

But in Eastern Europe, sure.
> Note that they are still obsessed with the idea of anyone belonging to or contributing to the Communist Party and even checked if had relatives in foreign countries who might have been Communists (they couldn't find any).

Their continued focus upon past drug use is also anachronistic. I have not yet read the the document all the way thought, but so far they have mentioned it no fewer than a dozen times.

The FBI's priorities seem to be... dated. I wonder if they are still thus.
Why won't existing URL-shortener companies now add an option for a toll? They already have name exposure.
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Whenever you get frustrated about a tool, a process, a company, a product, or an interaction you have (basically anything that is not a personal relationship), write it down.

Keep a list of these. Come back to them once a week and think about what you would like to be different or how you would make your experience better. Cross off any frustrations that you would not pay money to fix.

Refine this list by determining if:

a) Others (people) have similar frustrations to you

b) Others would pay money to fix or reduce their frustrations

That should get you started in the right direction.
You're kind of missing the point.

Obviously, you can't be doing something revenue generating all the time. But for determining the value, that's the way it's done.

When you choose to hang out with your kids, you choose that over everything else you could have done. One of the things you could have done is earn money. You decided to give that up, so the monetary cost of doing what you did instead is the money you could have earned but didn't.

The market value of your time is, assuming you have a job or charge a consulting fee or whatever, is already determined.
Can we excempt -ms prefixes from this?

Because we really, really need ms to decouple their browser from their OS and institute forced upgrades ala Chrome so that we never again have to deal with outdated shit.

Seems fair that we ban their browser until they play along.
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I can't find a number from the SSA regarding how much a billionaire (or millionaire) would receive. But this report states that from 2004-2009 $9B was paid out to millionaires in social security benefits: http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&...

"In fact, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) found that in 2009, 38,217 individuals with an AGI of $1 million or more received more than $1.142 billion in Social Security benefits." That seems to show that those millionaires received ~$30k each/year from social security. There must be a cap in place if true.
Thanks!

Minor correction: I implemented hierarchical bounding boxes separately, as per Jonathan Feinberg's paper, but they turned out to be slower in all the cases I tried (even large words and areas). I was also using a quadtree to cut down the number of comparisons with previously-placed words.

In my version, once a word is placed, I copy it to the relevant position in a large sprite representing all the words placed so far. So placing a new word means it only needs to be compared with the candidate area of the large sprite, rather than multiple comparisons with all previously-placed words.

I'd like to try a hierarchical sprite version, where you compare against coarse-grained sprites first of all. This would essentially be a quadtree. The implementation would be a bit trickier because I'm also compressing blocks of 32 1-bit pixels into 32-bit integers, which also helped with performance.
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I know in the javascript world there's a preference by large to use camelCasing but I'm not a fan of it. I don't think its easier to read, and there can be confusion with what to capitalize.

Also whats the purpose of putting your templates inline? I compile all my templates server side into a js file called template.js and when I need a template I simply call:

Template.documents.index
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We recently added some very simple keyboard controls: the arrow keys (left-right: pan, up-down: zoom), that might alleviate that problem a little.

Yes, you need to click in the app once to give it focus before it registers the keyboard clicks. Just one of the many little gotchas with flash... (don't get me started ;)

(disclosure: I'm one of the weatherspark devs)
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When I worked at AT&T some years ago they had an entire team of about 50 developers and testers working on identifying problems in AT&T's myriad billing and provisioning systems. This team developed applications that analysts used to reconcile billing with account features, usage, taxes, discounts, etc. This team was very successful in finding both under billings and over billings. One project identified something like $100M in annual under billings. Another project found so many switch/bill mismatches that they just decided to cancel it because they didn't have the manpower to manually correct all the problems or deal with all the customers calling to complain that their bill went up or their feature disappeared.
That's fine until you hit C|Net or some other shite filled web site which is 2.8Mb to hit the front page.

That's 1097 preloads and the base 3G rate (3Gb) in the UK is used up. 1Mb after that costs about $1.50 so each subsequent preload of CNET would cost you $4.20. Does that sound fair? 3G monthly bills will hit the thousand dollar mark with little effort.

On a standard ADSL plan in the UK (5Gb), that is 1828 preloads and the data allowance is used up. After that, rate limiting kicks in which makes everything bar browsing light weight web sites unusable.

That's not many.

It's totally offensive usage of my connection and if it's turned on by default, people are going to get screwed badly.

The better experience point is a load of shit - it's a workaround for crap sites which don't load in a reasonable amount of time the first time.

It's not the browser's job to make "intelligent" decisions for me.
Do you really want to be subjected to coding on a whiteboard?

Edit: Instead of down-voting, why don't you explain to me why you would want to code on a whiteboard when it's completely pointless. Might as well throw in some of those pointless questions like why are manholes round?
I'm well aware of that and dislike these types of laws.

But my point more was that it was presented as if because it was illegal, it was ipso facto immoral.
If someone has a recommendation for one of these drives with decent performance that would be great. We have some with spinning disks in laptops, and I would love to be able to upgrade to an SSD based one.
it may have technically been a resignation. you know; that old political game...

the interviews show that everyone that knew and worked with him thought he resigned. only when they interviewed jobs did HE say he was fired.
You are joking, right? His negative qualities are all over the bio. I also don't think any one would argue with Jobs being called a genius.
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Also, the people in charge of the FBI are old, and likely to have been the kind of people obsessing over this kind of stuff back in the day (during the cold war).
Yes, yahoo's geocoding is not perfect... Searching for just "Vilnius" does the right thing though, and takes you to:

http://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;a=Republic_of_Lithuania/...

(disclosure: I'm one of the weatherspark devs)
There are a few reasons as to why most companies are only looking to hire local candidates. The first one is that companies are familiar with the area they're in, they know which colleges have better cs programs, they know which smaller companies had an impact in the area, and which ones they should avoid on resumes.

Another is simply that when you extend an offer to a candidate the company has already invested massive amounts of time and money in the interview process. Candidates are more likely to balk at accepting an offer out of state once they really start thinking about leaving whatever area they've called home for the last 3+ years.

Also in regards to telecommuting, you may be able to do that well but I can assure you that there are more remote workers who do it poorly.

All of that being said, some folks are able to make a good living moving around and doing contracts and remote work. You should be aware though, that if you hope to one day land a permanent position at a reputable company after years and years of contracting you're going to have a much harder time than someone who has worked multiple permanent roles.
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You only need to use prefixes on experimental not-yet-standard features. When the feature is standardized the prefixes are dropped.

If you want to only support standardized features then only support standardized features. That's a decision for individual developers to make. What you are proposing is to strip developers of the ability to test out non-standard features.
I hear you about flash, HTML-only "simple forecast" is in the pipeline, so do check back.

(disclosure: I'm one of the weatherspark devs)
Steve Jobs FBI file
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Touché, I was reading his site yesterday and laughed out loud a few times.

Like mentioned above, these apps are programming tools. It's not like he's mass marketing these to uninformed consumers.
Humor is difficult to get right. It's very easy to go from humor to douchebaggery in a short step. That dude does, and his product (that, y'know, he wants money for) isn't good enough to offset that for me. SimpLESS, on the other hand, has no such problem for me.
Is this the model that's supposed to be $30,000 and ship in 2015? I love Tesla's strategy of releasing a new model every 3 years for half the price of the previous model. Does this mean they will have a $15,000 model in 2018? That would be great.

Starting with 2020 electric cars should start going mainstream, which is not too bad. I think many people wouldn't have expected this until 2050 (when we'd be really running out of oil) about 5-10 years ago.
Quite frankly that is because IE is a browser that we have to live with users using. If it was a bit more realistic I wouldn't support IE at all (no matter the version), I would even take steps to break my site in IE since IE is the last browser which has any meaningful marketshare and which is not automatically updated to the latest version.

So if you use IE when you are not forced to, you drag the rest of us down. And that frankly isn't cool.
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It's simply zealotism.

The right tool for the job is always the right tool for the job.

Git is not the right tool for the job for most of the cases described.
I have a Notebook and a Evernote notebook about this. I write down all my ideas on these notebooks. My passion is so big about startups, that sometimes I do this when I have a Patient. I stop the treatment and with the help of my nurses I write the ideas on the list.

But the ideas are not revolutionary. It seems that everything is already done. I know that always there is a unsolved problem but, I don't know if it's my fault or it's normal, it's too hard to come up with a great idea nowadays.
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the implications of GPLed software.

If you incorporate GPLed software into your own software - that is, copy the source code - then your work is considered a derived work and is also under the GPL.

Software that is LGPLed can be linked to without making your application under the GPL itself. This includes things like glibc. (The "L" in "LGPL" used to stand for "Library" but now it means "Lesser.")

Finally, if you use GPL software to produce your own works, there is no effect. So using git to manage your own source has no impact. Same with using gcc to compile your source.
This was discussed already. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3561950

glazou: A long time ago, Mozilla had an Evangelism team that would call up the website owners and ask them to change.

Florian: Opera has a large and active one, but it does not scale.
...

Florian, Sylvain: Evangelism has failed.

glazou: Have you tried pinging the WASP about that? Other activists of web standards?

sylvaing: If MS can't scale to handle this, you think WASP can?

tantek: Opposite is happening right now. Web standards activists are teaching people to use -webkit-
The telephone system does not work the way you think it works.

We could talk about POTS, but that's largely irrelevant. Worldwide, the vast majority of phone calls start and end with a GSM terminal. Each call is a digital, packet-switched connection from end to end and a supremely complex one at that. A call, even a solely fixed-line call, isn't connected through analog switching, but through a series of database queries that establish a route.

90% of telephone handsets in the world are complex digital devices. They each have multiple identities - in the case of GSM, the IMEI of the handset, the IMSI of the SIM, the MSISDN of the subscriber and one or more telephone numbers. This isn't some bolt-on to POTS anymore, it's the default mode. there are whole generations in the developing world who have grown up with telephony but have never even seen a fixed-line telephone.

Saying telephone switching is simple because it uses DTMF signalling is like saying sending an e-mail through Siri is simple because you just have to speak. The hidden complexity is immense. There are already multiple DNS-type layers involved in establishing the simplest of telephone connections.
In addition, if you store more than 1 GB, chances are that a good fraction of that is photos emailed to multiple people, which they can store only one copy of while counting this storage against each person that leaves it on their account.
Depending on how long you've been at the company, this may not be an option but I've seen it before, is there a way that would allow you to work from home one or two days a week? Or maybe work four 10 hour days and have a day off. This would give you an extra day, or some extra time to work on your own side personal projects. Don't ever let yourself quit innovating! If you have an idea find a way to make it work, especially if you feel it's your true calling.
Hey, there's a better quality one here: http://vimeo.com/36245706

I know, because I uploaded it :-)
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Which ones are you missing? Google backs up all of the things you mentioned for me on my phone.
I would pay money to have all these quotes attributed. Who went to college with Jobs?
I liked the ladder analogy but I feel like this is basically every startup's experience. You climb up the ladders, invalidate assumptions when you realize what's too short, and identify traits that make some ladders better than others. And then at the end there usually is a big honking ladder than you realize is your best bet of trudging up and getting to 'the top.' If you can make the ladder exploration process one which you earn actual money during this time, this makes it a lot easier.

The OP mentioned 'founder-startup' fit, but I wonder what kind of startup trajectory they were expecting. Nothing is formulaic about a startup, but it sounded like they had close to the standard success case as possible. They launched a product, they got some customers, they got information from those customers, they realized future growth would require a pivot in their product but that growth could easily dwarf what they had done before, and... well, that sounded like a lot of work and they punted.

The Spaciety team launched a product, got customers, got revenue, and had a seemingly clear path to more growth via investment and product enhancements/pivots, so despite shutting down I would actually consider them a success. But I finished reading this and was mostly left wondering what trajectory the OP and his founders were looking for? Very few startups had a story like, "well we put in a lot of time to launch the product, got some customers, so now we just kind of hang out and let it run itself and we probably have a 50% chance to sell for like $3 million."

The OP talks about founder-startup fit, but were they a bad fit for Spaciety or a bad fit for starting a startup in general?
I'd be very worried about special proprietary drives like these that have an encryption/decryption chip. What if the chip fails? How easy will it be to read the bytes off of a drive if it fails in the future? Here are my solutions instead:

On a Mac (Lion+), use FileVault 2. It provides pre-boot full drive encryption.

On Linux, use dm-crypt/LUKS. Why oh why is this still not easy to set up?

On Windows, use TrueCrypt full drive pre-boot authentication.

On an Android phone (ICS+), use the new android full drive encryption.

On an iPhone, I imagine you're SOL?
Please don't spam the discussion.
NOAA has an api ( http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=San+Franci... click on the red XML button down right on the page)

As someone else mentioned, so does api.met.no (they power yr.no).

World Weather Online and Weather Central are commercial offerings, but reasonably priced.

(disclosure: I'm one of the weatherspark devs)
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Can't we just have type="text/css' and type="text/css+webkit"? Wouldn't utilizing MIME types solve this problem for all parties? W3C can continue to be ineffective without vendors subverting its control. Vendors get a namespace in which to stick their ill-thought experiments. Developers get to isolate vendor-specific CSS away from the standard stuff.

edit: clarification, hopefully
Preventing and treating drug abuse? There's an app for that
I suspect the reason single-serve "pod" machines are successful is convenience. It's a single serving, piping hot, exactly when you need it. This is not impossible to achieve with a regular grind-and-brew machine, it just has high up-front costs.

Inexpensive grind-and-brew single-serve machines typically make really, really wretched coffee. The good single-serve machines (e.g. Jura Capresso) start out around $500.
The big companies get so many candidates that they can't possibly do all applications justice. So they rely on referrals. If you know someone at the company, asking them to pass on your CV will hugely increase the chance of getting a phone screen.
I remember reading that they were working on an SUV body with essentially the same mechanics as the Model S. However, the back-lit profile in my email looks like another sedan.
Speaking of UI, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=695582