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I wish there was an option to switch to timezone names (EST, CST, etc) instead of just cities but still this is great as timezones anyways throw me off
Thanks for the feedback, glad you found it useful! I'll be sure to remove the __MACOSX folder for the next update.
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If people need a guide for an apology then I would question it's sincerity.
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I'm getting really, really tired of seeing you post the same links to the same subjects over and over again. Others have asked you to stop and you've ignored them, so I won't.

I will, however, from now on flag them, and every time I see a new one, I'll flag an old one too. Perhaps others will join me, perhaps not, but it will at least make me feel that I'm trying to improve the signal to noise ratio.
We had a 30-day free trial for our app as well. We had basically zero conversions from trial to paid. Once we changed it to a 30-day money back guarantee, we started getting subscribers. Only about 20% cancelled during the trial period. So the difference for us was night and day.

A note, in our case we used PayPal for subscriptions.
Part of his point, I think, is that holding an opinion does not harm anyone. Would it be an offensive opinion? Yes. Are you right that there are a bunch of people who would be very angry about it? Yes. And that those people would likely never forgive someone who thought slavery should be brought back? Yes.

There's also nothing to forgive the person with the offensive opinion for, other than offending someone. I don't think that the opinion-holder would have a right to not have that offense expressed, and I don't think people should have the right to hold and express any opinion with the expectation that no one will express offense, but I also don't think people have the right to not be offended.
Thinking about how others may react before speaking is part of our DNA, it's not some new idea. What we think about evolves, but the basic principle is as old as humanity. I call it "being considerate," as in considering the effect our choices may have before we make them.
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http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ is another visually appealing option.
I hope this means their Linux drivers will stop sucking as hard as they do now.

I run their closed drivers on a 5870 HD (I know the open ones do 2D just fine, but I need openCL for work) and boy are they crap.
Well worth noting: auto-correcting the email addresses would be a very bad idea; ditto for stopping them from submitting the form if this is triggered.

But just showing a little note "are you sure you didn't mean username@gmail.com", then letting them submit anyway, isn't generally annoying even for misfires.

Because there actually are going to be occasional users who mistype "ymail.com" when they mean gmail. Hey, thanks for the warning; the y is right near the g.
How does this compare to something like Kicksend?
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Agreed.

Interesting sidebar here about John Nash, the famous mathematician. Nash, as you may know, suffered from what was probably paranoid schizophrenia. He had the most severe delusions which crippled his work.

Later in life he managed to get along. After watching the movie I did a little research. As I understood it, Nash basically said that the delusions never went away, and he really didn't stop believing in them, but he learned to live with them and express them in a way that allowed his life to continue. He felt that either way could be true -- the things he suspected or the reality others descried to him. Therefore it was inappropriate to make a big deal out of it. He kept the same useless and perhaps personally dangerous opinions, but he learned to adjust his actions so that he could continue being a functioning part of society.

Very interesting outcome. I think you only get there by encouraging people, not by shaming or ostracizing them. It could have worked out very differently for Nash.
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Ha! Yup, in the past I had a catch-all on "tellmelater.com", and there were a bunch of people who apparently use that domain as part of their "I'm not gong to give you an email address" address.
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Relevant: http://uncrunched.com/2012/02/12/im-so-so-sorry-heres-my-bel...
Please read the whole context: https://img.skitch.com/20120320-fmsc5mciy8e7n3nxhakmegxxg9.p...

"Women" are being presented in a list of "great perks" -- along with "food trucks", "top shelf booze", and "dark chocolate". This is pretty much a textbook example of objectification.

This sort of objectification and othering is part of what keeps women out of tech, and that's a loss to everyone. More women joining our community means more people in our community, and that's a win for everyone.

>I can't imagine any of the women I know getting upset about that line.

Have you actually asked any women who work in tech about what it's like? Spending just a little time listening to what women in our industry think about the culture can be an eye-opening experience.

I'm not doubting that you can find women who aren't offended by this, but that's quite beside the point. It's essentially the "I have black friends so how can I be racist!?" defense — so laughable that Colbert uses it as a running gag on his program.

> So a genuine question, are we getting to a point where you need to think so much before actually saying anything? Personally, even if I were the butt of a mildly racist joke I would probably enjoy the joke than be offended.

If you think sexist and racist jokes are acceptable then yes, you probably should think twice before making jokes.
I am not known for being very politically correct, but I disagree with your assessment of #3. Some people just don't know where the line is and continually cross it, and that is not ok, but they shouldn't fail to apologize and they should try to learn from their mistakes if possible, and if not possible they should avoid situations that lead to #3.
Anonymous comments on a social website are about the flimsiest form of evidence I can imagine. Anonymous comments alluding to something is a complete waste of time. Please cite something substantial or cite nothing at all and share your own opinion.
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And I've got a 2.5" 9mm internal one, but I'm fairly sure that they're talking about density per platter and all 2.5" HDDs larger than 750 GB seem to use two platters.
>I then reviewed your source and concluded, "I don't think that what you've posted really supports your claim that the WHO finds recreational cocaine usage to be less hazardous than drinking enough to get drunk."

That's because he couldn't provide the source he was thinking of. The source he did post demonstrates why he couldn't find it.

>I can't actually find the article, but http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/13/bad-scie.... suggests it was suppressed by the U.S. government, so I must have read a leaked copy that I can't find anymore.
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Nice, but I find Wolfram Alpha faster and easier to use:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=12%3A30pm+PT
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> “OK, I’m writing a movie for the masses,” he says. “OK, masses, what do you like?”

Oh, it'll be one of /those/ movies :(
This looks great, and I love the slider. Maybe I'm just not seeing the option, but I need to be able to add and remove time zones. A lot of the confusion of these tools is having to ignore the many cities that don't concern you.

Saying the weekday on each would be great too (ex: Friday, March 21). When you're working with Australia it can be hard to remember that they're almost a full day ahead.
How about shift-enter for <p>?
I would agree if there was an option for the 24 hours format.
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CoffeeScript implements this syntax, and, of course, it's extremely awesome.

http://coffeescript.org/#destructuring
There's an (unrelated) neat trick to see around corners by looking at diffuse scattered light:

http://homepage.mac.com/sigfpe/Dual/dual.html
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Just finished up reading HN post about "step by step UI design" ebook by sgdesign

Link : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3731047

That made me wonder from where HNers buy their ebooks and are they happy with it?

In short, is there a need for yet another improved ebook marketplace?
Well, almost. Could do with a city lookup that highlights the timezone bar that corresponds to your chosen city and labels it with that city. I think that's the missing step in usability.
I assume he simply got "advised" to do that. I wouldn't mind betting that if some one kindly emailed him and explain why that is a problem, he might well see that it is changed.

You point if fair though. I dont see why you've been down voted either.
That link is to a really old ES4 discussion. The proposal for ES6 is at http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:destructuring and has now been incorporated in the draft ES6 spec.
Sadly, we don't live in "a world where people aren't putting pornography on their slide presentations" — we live in a world where it happens pretty regularly. Sexism is deeply embedded in the culture of the software industry; in that context, there isn't really any such thing as a "harmless joke". These "jokes" continually reinforce the thought that women aren't welcome in our community.
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This is really interesting. I wonder how the mathematics work of using different directions to find the locations of bounces, and how much the accuracy can increase with more directions.
This is a useful test: do a multiplication, say... 12*15, in your head. In what language did you do it?

Usually we tend to revert to the primary language for math.
> Women: Need another beer? Let one of our friendly (female) event staff get that for you.

I must have missed this entire story, but is this really a line that people are upset over?

Can someone explain why? Maybe I'm not reading into it enough or there is some missing context? To me it seems like they're just saying another female will get them a beer if they want one. How is that offensive?
All evidence to the contrary?

Android releases since Gingerbread have made much more use of black elements (status bar, menu shortcuts, app launcher background). Bright colours on OLEDs are bad news for battery life.
Does there need to be another reason?
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Been working from the Midwest remotely for 20 years. Working great. Work with a group of top-notch developers, from all over the country.

You may want to look into some remote development tools? I suggest Sococo, but I work there.
That'd be nice. I've posted once, emailed HN, don't seem to be able to flag but would if I could.

HN guidelines say don't make a fuss in thread, but really this has gone on too long.
That's interesting too, but differs in that there still needs to be a unobstructed path to the object from the laser, in which case it could as well have been a camera.

Still very clever, though.
Is this the Samsung Galaxy S III?
It might also be considered a feature to have a small annoying hurdle to keep those who aren't as interested or knowledgeable on a topic from flinging their poos into the mix. Everyone is an 'expert' on Reddit on any topic, while that's not the case for the different StackExchanges.
Maybe the women need to come back and make fun of these people for being shitty at humor. EDIT: I dunno, I'd just hate to have to resort to being uptight as a solution. Plus it could backfire.
@patio11 If I may ask you a quick meta question: How much time do you spend writing a post on HN? I noticed that in contrary to when I joined, most of my posts get voted up, but I also spend more time then I should writing and rewriting them. Writing as many high value posts as you do would be unsustainable for me (even if I could). Do you just have an incredible natural talent in writing, so that you pull those posts out while having breakfast? Or is it years of practice, in which you perfected this skill?
At my first programming job, I had an agreement with the head of IT (and SQL server DBA) that we'd act as the same sort of problem-solving sounding board as the duck in this story. It worked well, even though he understood little of what I was doing, and I only understood the basics of what he talked about. Just verbalising a problem is a very good way of thinking around it in a different way than you had before.

These days I'm freelance and am usually working on my own, so I tend to start e-mails explaining the problem to mailing lists, then realise what I'm doing wrong and ditch the e-mail before it's sent.
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The first thing I thought when reading this article is that it's a shame the author chose this topic as his way of framing the post. If you remove the focus completely from the potentially flame-war issue this is based on there is some great advice in this article.

Specifically: "When I worked at Lulu, Bob Young used to say that whenever you screw up, it's actually a tremendous opportunity to win a customer's loyalty by making it right."

Pretend the topic is a bug found or any customer job delayed/flubbed. This is a great piece of advice. Generally engineering-types focus very much on explaining what happened and not enough time on hearing the customer, apologizing, and explaining that it won't happen again. It's our natural personality as problem solvers.

But I've seen how apologizing for even a major mistake can win loyalty, get help fixing the problem, and even make deals bigger/longer. "Wait, that problem happened because we are sending the data to you in that convoluted way? We should either fix that or work together on how to make it easier for you to support it." If done right, the relationship will become more collaborative (your ultimate goal) and the customer will appreciate you more.
In the real world, defaults and simple-to-use libraries (i.e. not twisted) matter. Just because you are doing system programming doesn't mean you necessarily have the time/skill to carefully optimize everything.

System's programming isn't just writing a KV store used by millions. Sometimes it's writing a dedicated calculation server used in a single company. Carefully optimizing your I/O model might take longer than doing the project itself.
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> For instance, I might have an opinion that we should bring back slavery. A totally offensive opinion, yes, but dammit, I'm entitled to have it.

I think this is confusing two very different things. You are "entitled" to have this opinion in that (a) you shouldn't be locked in prison for stating this opinion and (b) I am not allowed to beat you up for having this opinion. However, that opinion is wrong. You should stop having it, and if you express it at work you will and should be fired.

I think this is exactly analogous to this case. Sqoot could have held a successful hackathon if they didn't display their sexism in their ad copy, but the root problem is the sexism, not the ad copy. That's why the apology rubs people the wrong way.
As a woman, and a woman in tech at that, I'm not /upset/ by it, but it does bother me.

It bothers me that the organisers assume the attendees will all be straight males and therefore interested in the fact that the servers are women. It bothers me that it plays on the antiquated notion that "women are there to serve". It bothers me that women are being treated as a 'perk', full stop.
I believe in freedom of opinion and speech, but I also believe in freedom of sense. Believing that slavery is good is not only a generally offensive position, but it is an opinion that implies poor morals. Therefore not only in general company is expressing such an opinion a poor choice if one wishes to be socially accepted, but having the opinion itself is an abomination.

Being easily offended is not a good thing. And anything that divides for the purpose of uniting, like political correctness, enforced diversity, etc. is suspect because it can annoy or hurt a group, even if that group is in a power or majority position. And people have the right to be offended or not offended. A morally corrupt person has the right to hang out in the Hall of Evil if they would like. That is freedom.

But the purpose of the original post being discussed is that there is a way to apologize, and for that matter a reason to apologize. I personally think the apology was warranted. But, in the case of wanting to bring back slavery, I just don't think you can defend it as a moral opinion that should be aired. Even though I wouldn't outlaw the opinion, that doesn't stop me from strongly suggesting it is a bad idea and a sign of antisocial foolishness.
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I think you only get there by encouraging people, not by shaming or ostracizing them. It could have worked out very differently for Nash.

I agree strongly, in cases where the opinion is held out of ignorance or misunderstanding, or some root that isn't itself malicious.

People exist who hold, or pretend to hold offensive, or actually incorrect "opinions" for the purposes of power-gathering or pure getting-off-on-pissing-people-off. The latter can range from harmless to very frustrating, the former are dangerous. It becomes obvious that they have explicit motives behind "holding" and expressing an opinion quickly enough, but if the former manages to gather enough people around it it becomes a force to be reckoned with quickly.

Luckily there aren't very many of either of those two types of people, and the best way to avoid malicious ones actually ... doing anything malicious is through a well-educated populace and encouraging people to think and challenging the ideas present in a sane manner -- I mention this stuff mostly due to thinking that it's important to make and know the distinctions between respecting a person, respecting a person's right to an opinion, and keeping in mind that that person does not have a right to voice opinions and have them considered with equal weight, does not have a right to voice opinions and not have them traits like bigotry, purposeful ignorance, attempts at manipulation, and so on. It's normally pretty clear when someone holds, for example, racist views out of ignorance versus malice if you've been engaged in discussion for more than a few minutes.
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You can only flag when you get about 500 or 600 karma or so, not sure of the exact limit at the moment, it goes up occasionally.

I won't make a fuss in the thread, this was just a plea to contribute something useful, and not to contribute the same few thigns over and over again. I won't comment to him again.
And I guess what I'm saying is, if there weren't the disrespectful atmosphere to begin with, I think women could let it slide, with the understanding that this joke is based on the fact that "women are not programmers" is enough of an approximation of the truth that you can base a joke off of it. (again, not that it's that great a joke)
They do solo projects, but I don't think that's analogous. Would Radiohead have been allowed to self-release albums while they were under their major label contract?
Haha.. there's this gem as well. . . http://yvettesbridalformal.com/
Please include other BRIC countries that were kept out of list: Russia and China.
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Stuff like this just makes me imagine how deadly the Terminators are going to be. Lightning reflexes, flawless aim, senses that include all light and radio spectrums, and now seeing around corners in 3D.
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I travel a lot on business and have been using this tool for a while.

The main consumer problem it solves for me is the "I'm in Barcelona on Tuesday and need a conference call between Atlanta and Ukraine. What is a time that's workable for everyone"

It's indispensable for that problem for me. Filtering TZ and adding TZ would be a nice additional feature though.
Just FYI, I think that really depends on what kind of a person you are.. Some people prefer to write because it gives them an opportunity to explain things in an ordered, and well thought out fashion.
AMD's windows drivers aren't exactly good either. Plenty of known VPU crash bugs that aren't getting fixed, and every now and then a good old BSOD. In fact, as many bitcoin miners know, the linux driver performance is actually higher. There is something wrong with their driver team and/or management.
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Exactly. Kudos on building a fairly complex application over the weekend, but the journey has just begun. 'Build it and they will come' does not apply (usually) for revenue generating businesses with real customers.
Very interesting project. It shows well the value of collaborators and having people in one place. It's also a very well written piece. aes256 (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3733968) and robinjfisher (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3733913) asked a key technical question, so I'll give a little feedback on the linked page itself:

typo: Dogpatch Labs by no means normal. It’s a small, tight community of tech entrepreneurs who love to help eachother

"eachother" should be two words

I doubt it: Everything was done within 30 square feet

A bit picky here, but you may as well get it right: 30 square feet is a tiny area for a workspace: for example, a room (closet, really) measuring 5ft by 6ft would have an area of 30 square feet. I doubt that's what you meant. You probably meant that everybody was within 30 ft of everybody else, or something of this nature.
You are misreading the line - it's in fact listing the presence of 'Women' as a good thing.

Imagine if a female-dominated profession held an event and mentioned that the wait staff were men as if this were a good thing. There would be an IndignoStorm on twitter.
Yeah, that quote is out-of-context to the point of disingenuousness. Women are listed as one of the "great perks" that (male?) attendees can enjoy:

https://img.skitch.com/20120320-fmsc5mciy8e7n3nxhakmegxxg9.p...
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I had vowed never to buy another ATI device until they got their shit together concerning GNU/Linux support. Maybe that will change.
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