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Go look at that thread too. It is ridiculous. He's a brand new user who just started one thread called "IAMA someone who 'leaks' information about Microsoft's future plans. AMAA" and in it he says "I do not work for Microsoft, any of it partners or contractors" yet he seems to know everything about a wide variety of things inside MS from dev tools to Windows to xbox, I didn't see a single "I don't know" reply in the thread. There are a lot of redflags in there on that being a huge load of BS.
Richard Nash: "Why books? They’re our most heroic individual cultural act."
Very true, that's another example of the same phenomenon. In Toronto, "entrepreneur" is often a dirty word among who actually get stuff done. It usually refers to your typical MBA with no industry experience looking for a code monkey to fulfill his vision.

I don't think "hacker" has yet been tarnished in Toronto the way it has been here, though.
Because of the behaviour of both male and female participators in this "discussion", I don't know to whom Charles Arthur refers to as sexist. The men act like typical chauvinistic males as one would call them, and the women sounds very entitled and arrogant, spouting typical feminist nonsense. Both are in the wrong, one maybe more than the other.

In any case, this doesn't really fit on HN I think.
OCaml would be my main and only language if it had real concurrency ... but I'll definitely have to give this a try.
A rat's life span of about three years seem adequate to me. I guess the electronics won't even last that long in such an environment.
Jump on the iOS bandwagon or get left behind ....
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The argument can be made (at least in our industry) that someone who uses Facebook isn't someone you'd want to hire, anyway.
Try switching your PNG's from RGB to Indexed color - depending on what the image is it can dramatically lower the file size.
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Here's me and my wife disagreeing.

Which is fine. Our daughter will learn how to toughen up and roll with the punches from Erin, and to not take any of this shit from me, and hopefully synthesize that into the CEOship of some galactically huge company from which she will fund our retirement.
Now is the worst time ever to buy an Android phone
Supply side economics and human nature
1. Small tasks are much easier to handle in that context. But that doesn't exclude bigger projects - we'll just make sure it is split into smaller tasks (the usual sprint/stories methodology of SCRUM usually helps a lot here)

2. We start by asking both parties what is their price/budget. This allows us to do a first sanity check on both sides, and then we use that information, along with the project description, to see who could agree on a price. We discuss a potential match with both parties - if both agree to discuss, they get to discuss the final price together.

3. True, it would certainly be useful. We have a good core set of skill currently in web development, games, Python/PHP/Node/JS - but that doesn't take into account the many candidatures from HN exposure today. We haven't had time to process them properly yet, but the set of expertise is much larger already. I'd say that, unless your project is extremely specific, we can probably find a matching skill set for you.
> Subscription figures have fallen from 12 million just after the release of the last expansion to 10.2 million

That's probably a cycle that follows every expansion: all of the old players come back, play it, get bored again and leave. I'm not sure this is evidence that it's "fading"

But they've already announced their next game, Diablo III, and they tend to only have a few games in their peak at a time anyway, so we know what they're doing next because they've told us.
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I use Doppler on my iPhone and my iPad to do things like run rake tasks, view logs, and use the console. My only complaint with Doppler has been that it doesn't recognize newly added rake tasks.
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Good article, thanks. :)
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http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=picozu

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3642993 35 comments
"So why can't developers learn management skills?"

Many developers aren't good with people. It's the reason they got into development in the first place. Personally, I spent my teenage years in front of a computer 99% of the time.

I'm now in my 30s and it took me years to acquire good people skills. I could be a manager, but I'm running my own company instead, which utilizes all of my skills.
As far as who to pitch and who not to pitch, I think it's worth a mention that a startup will have more success pitching the blogs in its own niche before going after general tech blogs.

For example, if your startup is a service based on WordPress, go to some of the popular WordPress news blogs and influential WordPress people before you try to pitch Techcrunch and the like.
So where was Microsoft and other tablet manufacturers during the iPad "revolution". Were they touting their upcoming high-resolution displays? Huge battery reserves? Easy app development platforms?

Nope. ALL of the Windows and Android tablet development is 100% reactionary response to the success of the iPad. ALL OF IT.

There was no real consumer tablet market before the iPad - period. And there continues to be NO innovative technology being introduced by any of the tablet makers and Microsoft.

MS seems to think it can destroy the iPad by the simple introduction of Window 8 Table and Metro. I've used Metro in the Windows 8 Preview - it's garbage. It doesn't pass the Grandmother test and will flop with consumers. Sorry but pushing it to PCs and then glorying in the fact that consumers will swoon and insist their tablets have it is insane.
Ray Kurzweil Defends His 2009 Predictions
I have sympathy for the outcast with poor social skills because of mistreatment by society.

But such an outcast ceases to be sympathetic the instant s/he makes someone else's life unpleasant. This isn't about "man hate"; this is about someone who made an offensive comment that made someone else uncomfortable. That's not OK, and we reasonably expect better socialization in our peers than this. If the person who made this remark is not a "happy, mentally-healthy, well-adjusted human being", then no matter how much compassion his condition might reasonably engender, he should get help.

Furthermore, by equating a lack of compassion for a man who is "not healthy" with "man hate", you implicitly claim that "men are naturally unhealthy". To me, this comes across as a greater denigration of men than any harsh reaction leveled at the oppressor.
Thank you for pointing out the nuances of female tops commonly available today and how they look on different body shapes.

With regard to button-up shirts, tailoring is a much bigger problem for women's shirt than men's shirt. Ready-made men's shirts are measured in collar size in 1/2" increments and sleeve length in 2" increments. This allow for much better fit, as men's shoulder and chest measurements tend to correlate with these two numbers.

For women's shirts, you're at the whim of the mythical "sizes" running usually in increments of 2 from 0 to 14 (larger if you're at the "plus" section). Each size up is usually scaled up at all measurements: chest, shoulder, waist, collar, shirt length and sleeve length.

In other words, even though there's a much wider variety in women's body shapes than in men's, men's shirts' come in much finer increments in terms of sizing.

In addition to the problems you've describe, I have a few more gripes regarding button-up shirts:

There's the problem of large gaps opening up in between buttons for the well-endowed, thus offering others glimpses of your undergarment (read: bra). Opting for a larger size would make the shirt too loose ("not fit") at the shoulders.

Another common problem with button-up shirts for women is, they tend to run much shorter than men's shirts, as they are intended to be worn not tugged in. Depending on body shape and the cut of the bottom garment, certain movements (such as raising the entire arm) may expose skin along and possible above the waistline.

Unfortunately, button-up shirts are part of the de facto business casual attire. Depending on the physical environment, adding a vest, cardigan, or jacket for cover-up may not be suitable or desirable. (Female jackets tend to hang above the hip bones anyway, so they're not offering much help in the regard of protecting skin from being exposed.)

In other words, no, I don't want to expose my skin or cleavage in the office, but sometimes it's unavoidable.
10.2 is the lowest it's ever been. Usually the numbers rise and fall depending on what other games are released -- every time a big-title MMO comes out, WoW generally loses 1-2 million players to it (and then they come back).

If the figure stays around 10 mil (i.e. if SWTOR keeps them), I guess that'll be 'proof' that WoW is fading.
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I have an X60 and a T60. You are completely wrong. Sorry but there is nothing on the market like the iPad (3rd Gen) Retina screen.
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It's funny that you mention libreadline. CLISP was not originally going to be GPL'd and only optionally depended on readline, but Stallman himself declared that even that made CLISP a derivative work. I happen to agree with your interpretation, but the author of the GPL does not.
There's a test page now:

http://todont.idered.pl/test
If we're discussing JS client MV* frameworks, take a look at the demos of the various options (including Ember.js, Backbone.js, Ext.JS, AngularJS) on:

http://addyosmani.github.com/todomvc/

I've been getting into AngularJS myself, which is positioned as an alternative to Backbone, KnockoutJS, etc.:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9588921/ember-js-vs-angul...
http://zdam.posterous.com/angularjs-vs-knockoutjs-knockout-g...

(AngularJS is undergoing a flurry of development so don't use the v0.9.19 branch on the site - instead, wait for v1.0 to be released, since v1.0.0rc2 is already out. http://angularjs.org/#/ )
Are there statistics on if its less likely to happen in the first place?
I used Codecademy for the first seven weeks. I started learning to program in January 2012, so the timing was perfect - I was their target market.

It was fun and interesting for a while. But the instructions began to get cumbersome. You had to read 3-4 paragraphs just to learn that they wanted you to write a simple, one line loop.

I spent more time reading instructions than thinking about or writing code.

I was using K & R at the same time, and the contrast was instructive. In K & R you're given a concise description of a feature, and then a short exercise that forces you to think about how to use it.

In the final few weeks, my only motivation to keep going with Codecademy was the thought that "at least I'll have these badges that show what I know". That was a pretty big warning sign.

I stopped when I realized I wasn't even learning the concepts in the lessons. There simply wasn't enough coding practice for them to stick.

I haven't been there for a few weeks, so perhaps things have gotten better. But from what I saw, they needed to work on cutting out the cruft in their instructions. Pedagogy is difficult.
Senate Passes JOBS Act to Ease Access to Capital for Startups
The Senate passed the JOBS Act, amending it on the floor to change the crowdfunding provisions.
Hmm, it does work. After sign up you're redirected to frontpage with todon't app.
Putting it that way, would a customer guarantee quantities of something that they didn't know was possible or before knowing what trade offs had to be made? (cost, power consumption, pixel-defects, size etc. etc.)
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Can someone do a TLDR on the video?
Absolutely spot on and I really love that you took this and ran with it. I couldn't have thought of a greater compliment!

The only minor quip is that it feels slightly odd to be called a beta when I felt closer to being the alpha-female, but I agree that it works for the purpose of the story. Probably just my pride talking ;)
Is this a part of complete Mixpanel service or is it something separate?
It's separate and free, however the JavaScript you paste is the same for regular Mixpanel and Flow. So if you already are using Mixpanel then you can just login.
The numbers are getting lower because many people are leaving due to Blizzards repeated failure at basic concepts: trying to balance the game for both PvE and PvP, trying to make the content challenging enough for hardcore players, but accessible and rewarding enough for casual players. The first expansion was pretty good, but I think the number of guilds that finished Sunwell were something like 1-2%. I know a lot of "hardcore raiders" quit after the second expansion (myself included) simply because of the design changes. Even among friends that still play, I don't know anyone really looking forward to the upcoming expansion, it's not that people are sick of WoW in as much as they are sick of what Blizzard is doing with it.
I'm talking laptops. I want an iPad 3 display for my Mac/ThinkPad.
And I, in turn, would blurt out, "yeah, Sarah's a girl because she doesn't menstruate. Hahaha" and everyone would grow more uncomfortable.

Edit: it's really sad that HN has such a devotion to using the word "girl" to describe women. It's flat-out demeaning, whether you want to admit it or not.
Sure. All the time. I enjoy watching news commentary on MSNBC. It's a kick to see exposed all of the despicable right-wing activities.

If I want news FACTS, I stick to the NY Times, however.
Hm, I wonder if this will be deleted as well? The two submissions of the Storify article were:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3740378

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3739913

I'm a little concerned/confused as to why. If the apology is HN-appropriate content then I'm a little surprised that the reason for the apology isn't.
Instructors from the free online classes at MIT/Berkeley/Cal/Stanford are much better than whoever is writing up code academy lessons.
Hr 3606 (crowd funding) bill passes senate
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Twitter ROI Breakthrough: Can Small Business Make Money?
From experience, our organization use OWA (outlook web access). The only way we can change password for my email id is on OWA and that works only on IE!
The blog post could be considered a response to Apple. The design and engineering work it outlines certainly isn't.
One thing I've noticed about coffee is that the amount of caffeine is super variable. There's one coffee shop nearby that for some reason after one drink feels like I've OD'd on coffee. Others I can have 2-3 coffees. I wish there was a relatively cheap/easy/inexpensive way to measure the caffeine content of a drink in realtime.

With pills, one would assume that they are somewhat more consistent. Or at least I hope so.
Yep. I think the term "startup" is soooo over used. I don't know if it is just here in Silicon Valley (the SF Bay Area in general) but it seems like everybody wants to say they are working on a startup. Because, really, if you are not working on a startup then you're just working and where's the cool factor of that? A lot of the "startups" I see here on HN aren't really much more than "side projects"... some aren't even that. I don't have either... I just have a good job and I tinker with stuff in my spare time.... I'm such a failure. :)
I am still surprised that a company like geeklist runs into such a trap[1]. Shouldn't they be knowing better? I mean, social networks are what they build, they should know the effect.

The whole internet was abuzz for a week about implied sexism and bad handling of women. But yet, they run into just the same hole. It doesn't even require to discuss the validity of the argument to see the problems in their handling: someone with high twitter reach complained about a questionable thing that they could easily drag in the trash bin (with a few phone calls). Was it even worth to pick that fight?

[1] Just to be clear: its a trap layed by themselves.
I try to do that as well but it's hard to built up a big enough gap especially in LA where a 'stop' can last up to 15+ seconds. Trying to make a gap big enough without seeming like a complete douche is hard and it makes it that much harder that I have been conditioned to speed up as much as possible.
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Few comments:

The "todon't" list is looking like a textbox. At first I thought maybe it's for details of the "stuff we should not have done", only after submitting item i could get, "Ah this is the list itself".

Also, only clue I had about what the app suppose to do was it's name and tagline.
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>"They make changes to the user interface and collect more data, analyzing what they've got to see what users "liked" more."

I find this so utterly naive that I am incredulous.

Google is a business. They don't tweek results based in favor of user preferences.

They tweek results based on the amount of revenue they are likely to bring in.

It's not an accident that [in the US] http://www.google.com/search?q=weather provides top links to commercial advertizing driven sites for one's local weather and only portals into the main page of weather.gov rather than the local forecast page.

Google search results aren't the best possible for the most people. They are the worst tolerable for maximizing revenue.

[edit] do employees have to use 20% time for downvoting on HN or is it part of their job?
I guess this is how it should be done yes?

Be humble, always give apologies no matter how offensive the messenger/complainer/customer?

Unfortunately, not every one has this skill and I hope some will realize that at some point you cannot give in.

Geeklist is the villain for giving in and letting it slide downhill (it is always a PR disaster after it hits the fan) but Kane was first to throw the rock. You don't win the argument by showing how angry you can be, you win it by being the most civilized and logical about it. This isn't a "Lighten Up" situation, this is a mind your tone and I can understand the serious nature of the issue without it.
Some real Paul Graham bashing (Because no one else is succeeding)
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PHP framework performance comparison (simple benchmarking)
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If we've learned anything from this week it's post something sexist to receive a lot of negative press (as it should).
Likewise, the Udacity courses are also much better planned. They put a lot of effort into making their lessons flow naturally. They pare down the presentation to the essential.

I find I spend a lot more time coding when doing a Udacity lesson.
I, for one, welcome the return of the Mel Gibson mullet or perhaps Hair Band hair in celebration by previously bald men everywhere.
functional languages can do some really cool things and some people swear by them, but none of them are things that you should know for professional purposes.

Thinking "functionally" has tons of holistic benefits for a programmer. It can also shrink your code base significantly.

Why ignore these gains if they can make you a better professional coder?
Or better, a link to the video itself?
Senate Passes Crowdfunding Bill
Android emulator (finally) gets near-native performance on Windows and Mac
If you think there was no reason for her to publicly complain about that video, or that calling it "fucking disgusting" was so out-of-bounds that her behavior was comparable to threatening her job, then there's really nothing about this situation for you or I to discuss productively.

Either way, my point wasn't so much the specifics of this situation as how jaw-droppingly ineffective that particular apology was. You don't even have to know what they're apologizing for to see it.
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Well, if that isn't a bunch of BS, then I don't know what is. I'm guessing a flag army took care of them, but there's no way to know from here.
The title of this story is "Gunman dies in hail of bullets as French siege ends" and has absolutely nothing to do with the throw-away line that the submitter used.

Do not editorialize submissions on HN. This is not Digg.
Summary: Some guys allegedly used a video as marketing material but didn't fully own up to it. Woman took offense to what she considered to be sexist material and responded through Twitter in a manner that the guys viewed as unprofessional and unmerited. The guys took offense to her manner of communication and tone of communication. Co-founders kept it civil but didn't resolve the issue and dug themselves deeper into a hole. Some peanut gallery comments added in didn't help.
Nice website but doesn't explain how the product works very well. I'm still not exactly sure. I understand it has something to do with shaking but not sure how the messages are actually created. Seems like a nice idea though.
The test app seems to be having troubles. Running in chrome, i can enter text in the task input then....nothing? Enter and tab are met with silence.
Calling women girls doesn't make your case better...
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