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Good heavens, we should talk then. Drop me a line at javajosh@gmail.com
You might want to check out Mike Rowe's Ted talk, he touches on some of this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRVdiHu1VCc

I'm in the process of changing careers now. I tried doing the IT thing for several years and ended up hating it. There was a lot of poor work/life balance, stress with meeting deadlines, poor job security (I'm not a developer), etc. This was with several different companies so I don't think it was just poor luck. My passion is working with computers & technology but I realized one day that it just wasn't worth it for me to be so stressed out.

So I spent some time researching careers and I'm now going back community college for something health related. The job security is outstanding, the stress is fairly low, and I actually get to directly help improve the lives of others every day. The pay isn't anything crazy but it's definitely enough to live comfortably on if you just want a modest lifestyle.
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Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
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Random access performance will be an issue, unless they work some magic on that, too. Same for bus-speeds.

Today you can fit about 96T into 4U if you squeeze a little.
That's 48 spindles then, sharing the load.

With 60T drives that turns into 2.8P on the same 48 spindles.

At today's maximum SAS bus-speeds (roughly 10 GBit/s) it would take 33 days just to write such an array full (assuming all components can sustain that throughput).

And let's not get started on IOPS...

Anyway, it will be a while before 60T drives hit the shelves. Until then at least the bus-speed issues will probably be sorted out.
1) it's a younger field

2) unlike law and medicine, it's only recently been identified as being lucrative

3) the path to success is much more blurry as there is no guild or accreditation

4) because of the top three, parents don't push their daughters toward programming.
Earlier attempt with same tech (ca 800s AD)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_Ibn_Firnas
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Hope he doesn't fly too high, lest they melt.
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I call fake, if you watch his previous test video you can see it's CG/Composited, they point the camera at the ground to swap clips with/without the real man/wings.

This one seems to be much better however when he lifts his legs you can see it's too smooth.
Isn't it a little early for April fools?
> What about the whole "Ender commits mass genocide" part?

I claim there's a difference between a violent act, and a violent work of literature about that act.

The book spends only a paragraph or two on the actual genocide. No graphic descriptions are portrayed.

If I write, "Hitler and the Nazis killed millions of people in WWII", does that make this post violent? I'd argue that it does not. It's a fairly dry and matter-of-fact description of very violent acts. The post is not violent.

On the other hand, I could write a particularly violent description of a minor fight that left both people alive, but would be far more gruesome and objectionable. There's not a direct relationship between a body count and the violence of a literary work about it.
No, it's not. I'm just pointing out the 4 electric motors because they're not directly visible in the video, and their use makes the whole flying thing a bit more plausible.

You can see a pic of said motors here: http://www.humanbirdwings.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Tim...
yes, we get that, but there's no need to reply to every comment about your skepticism.
When I know what I'm programming, I agree, but I tend to find strong static type systems get in my way for exploratory programming. If I'm trying out some music-synthesis idea, for example, the #1 thing I want is to hear some sound ASAP, even if the code only runs for certain choices of parameters and crashes after 30 seconds. Then, I'll fix it later if it sounds promising.

I find that in Lisp, for example, I'm able to do partial, tentative refactorings, where I sort-of change something as an experiment, just enough that it works in one example case, but don't completely refactor everything to be consistent with the change yet, because I'm not sure if I really want the change or not. That kind of thing is really hard to push through in languages that care more about static types, and I often find myself thinking something along the lines of: yes I know that function there isn't updated with the new type signature, but I'm only planning to try this out initially with one choice of parameters, and I know that in that case the function isn't even called, so please just run the damn program!
Note: x264 is NOT a codec, it is a H.264 encoder software

x264 is a codec, H.264 is a video format.
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An April 1st reveal, anyone?
Millions of tourists who pay tributes to graves and memorials would disagree
Luck can be increased with frequency. The more often you put yourself out there, the greater the chance the right people/time/moods will align.
Of course you can't, he's dead dude.
https://gist.github.com/d5882b9ce4c52cb56cf1

I changed the click event bound to the expand button to the close function for you.. Chrome developer tools does a pretty good job at unminifying js
I'm curious as to why you hold that opinion. It contradicts most things I've witnessed about either artform.
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@polemic @shantanubala `stringify` and `parse` are the names specified by the ECMAScript language spec: http://es5.github.com/#x15.12.3
Well, much of life is luck. But, instead of great idea dying in some coffee shop, they have an outlet where the right ideas can find the right people that can execute.

The key is that the Internet enables a giant magnifying glass on everyone. This could have died out, but now it has a chance to live.
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Absolutely; luck is in part a function of exposure. But only to an extent. Los Angeles is notoriously stuffed to the gills with attractive waiters trying to manufacture luck.

I look on things like talent as necessary but not sufficient causes of success.

For my fuller view:
http://chester.id.au/2012/03/02/does-leadership-matter/
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I think he moved to the US sometime in the late 90s.
What I would really like to see is a company where employees get to choose from a variety of seating arrangements to pick one that meets their needs. I know some people who absolutely thrive on the open-plan office; these are probably the same people who did all of their homework with the TV on. I also know people who have to wear aircraft-grade earmuffs to avoid being disturbed/distracted by the sound of people walking by their office door.
I had a professor once who explained how this can be problematic: What about the handicapped or elderly? Will they necessarily take the same paths? How does the ideal foot path change in winter months when there is snow? Is it just based on the first person who plowed ahead and started packing the snow down? In the spring, would the path be different if it rained often and you could walk underneath a tree?

This is not to say that the story is without utility, but that it can't be a universal maxim.
There's no need for you to position yourself as a gatekeeper for HN comments, either, but you're doing it anyway. Who elected you to quota individual comments? When you went after me, I had left three comments on this entry. There were more than a dozen by the time you said something, and I had made my point and was willing to back out.

If you've identified a noise problem in the signal -- the only possible reason to go directly after another commenter and expect that you're improving HN at all -- how does spamming yet more about the noise problem improve the situation for anybody?

Thanks for reminding me why I don't contribute to HN, by the way. I'll show myself back out.
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For just $24.99 a year . . . hmm no.
I am incredibly tempted because of that price point! What a wonderfully accessible price.
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> Given the free and easy style of the startup eco-verse, it's pretty hard to say exactly what this does or doesn't say about whoever / whatever was behind the event.

So startup culture is an excuse for hosting an offensive event? Think with your head instead of your dick and you'll come up with infinitely better plans than to have beer wenches around to serve geeks at a tech event.

> Maybe the President approved this. Maybe an intern slapped it up. Maybe the VP of Marketing submitted the wrong copy by accident.

Shame on any of them.

> Want to know why Big Corporate has so much bureaucracy? This is why.

Startup kids could learn a thing or two from mature organizations.

> But they didn't fix it immediately! Yeah, or perhaps the responsible parties were meeting with investors or home sick or some such.

"Fixing it" goes beyond editing the text that was written. "Fixing it" would be not writing it in the first place. "Fixing it" is getting people actively thinking about diversity and equality. Just because you wrote something stupid and edited the page doesn't mean you fixed the problem.
I think I got it - they are assuming the women will drink beer and not participate intellectually? Is that it?

So, where does it say 'Men'?
This page seems a good jumping off point:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

I had a scan and these may be of interest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_motive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilt_by_association
There is simply not enough air being moved by those airfoils to lift a 150+ lb object off the ground. He'd need much more speed than that. Or much more wing area. Or much faster articulation. And in any of those cases, the pathetic "wings" would deform horribly and ruin any aerodynamic properties they might possibly possess.

*edit
Now that I've actually watched the video, there's something I'd like to add to the list of red flags others have already pointed out: His landing trajectory. It's way too steep and forward. He'd have to enjoy a near 1:1 thrust ratio to land at that angle, and he'd have to have been pitched up and back to apply all of that thrust against gravity and his forward motion.
I think the internet has made a quantitative, not qualitative change to the dynamics of luck.

There are still great ideas dying in coffee shops. They're just dying on reddit too.
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Make sure you're not on a page with external scripts that could be mucking it up.

If you're recent modern browser `JSON.stringify(Object('hi'))` should produce '"hi"'.

See http://cl.ly/2J3B0e1z1o3e0T3x2b0l.
I assume you did try the "verbatim" search option, right? (Click "more search tools" if it's not on your screen)
This is like broadsheet newspapers all over again. PR release provides most if not all of the content of an article.

"Previous discussion": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3721198
> Their apology is even worse than the original flyer text.

Agreed. To me, the apology boils down to "We thought this was funny and harmless, but not everyone agreed. In order to keep people interested in our event, we changed the text."
I'm going with #1.
Filed under "for what it's worth" in the "random HN user" folder.
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I suspect the majority here will fall in the same category (removed to prevent any skew)... but it would be interesting to run the same poll on things like stackexchange and reddit.
I very much appreciated the PSD. Definitely learned a couple techniques I wasn't aware of beforehand. Thanks!
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Just an FYI for anyone still tracking this discussion. Today I released Smart Labels http://cdevroe.com/notes/nilai-smartlabels/
Right,

JSON.stringify(Object('hi'))

does that, but just plain Object('hi') without wrapping in stringify returns

{ '0': 'h', '1': 'i' }

Is it part of the JSON spec that you first call .toString() on array-like objects?
@prodigal_erik @benatkin

It is a JS polyfill/shim/fallback for older browsers like IE 6 and 7 but also fixes/fills in gaps in support/consistency with modern browsers that have buggy implementations.

The use of the word "modern" in the description is to suggest it is more up-to-date than Crockford's aging/stale json2.js.
So, no one noticed the crushed grass in the shape of tire tracks along the path of flight? Looks fake.
When I say that Ender didn't have to live, I don't say that out of ignorance. I know the history of those who've held the conviction that "God did not condone killing or the use of force for any reason" and "were therefore unwilling to fight for their lives." People from my particular tradition [0] were persecuted, at least in some areas, from the 1530s until 1990. In some communities, a book of martyrs [1] is held in high regard. Migration to escape persecution was remarkably common. ("Running away" is a survival strategy employed by quite a few species.)

I am by no means arguing that others should follow this philosophy. Merely explaining that, having grown up in a culture where we gave this idea serious thought, I found Ender's Game to be shallow and naive.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennonites
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyr%27s_Mirror
That's one of the most sane conclusions to a patent case I've seen in a long while. It's always baffled me how you can patent naturally occurring DNA just because you figured out how to sequence it. By that standard, Galileo could have patented the craters on the Moon and the Galilean satellites. And whoever invented the microscope could have patented the cell. Columbus could have patented America.

A discovery is not an invention.
All of those you listed have have standard shortcuts except menu, help, and maximize. Moving them to special keys would be a backwards step, because my fingers wouldn't know where they were, and they would different from keyboard to keyboard. Duplicating the functions on extra keys would be mostly harmless, but using command-letter would still be much faster.

Reading more carefully, maybe you are talking specifically about full-size keyboards, because the only buttons specifically for text editing are delete (arguable), tab, shift (also a generic modifier), and caps-lock.
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That actually sounds nice when compared to one company I worked for. They laid off our entire development team via an email. Adding injury to insult, nobody has received their final paycheck.
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How is it different from http://cstheory.stackexchange.com ?

Update: And I answered my own question: http://meta.cs.stackexchange.com/questions/78/how-to-make-ou...
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If you have a Mac you could try Pixelmator it is significantly cheaper than Photoshop and supports PSD importing.
The common wisdom for comics learning is that your first 100 sets don't count. You basically count as a win any time you are able to stay onstage for the required amount of time.

To paraphrase: your first 100 jumps off the board count if you hit water.
The person I most often have to talk to is a product person, who are happy to be interrupted most of the time (and when they aren't, they go hide).

When it's another developer, there's an etiquette to it. Because we're in the same room, I generally know when they're focused, and will just wait a bit if it isn't urgent. You also have graduated options for interrupting. There are times when people get my attention just by looking at me, or turning towards me and waiting a moment. If somebody is in flow, they'll probably ignore that.

We also do test-driven development and a fair bit of pair programming, which makes distractions less problematic when they do happen.
For anyone who is confused about the purpose of this site (in contrast to cstheory, for example), the distinction is that this is for non-research level computer science questions, whereas cstheory tends to frown on such questions.
I think this is happening to my co-founder (though I don't think he's the OP). We've been working on our SaaS company for several years, have a good number of paying customers, have hired half a dozen employees from revenue (never took funding), and are building a great company with a product our customers love. But it's still a struggle every day, and there are always more things to do than we have time for.

I can tell he's tired - he comes in to the office later and later, seems more easily irritated, has worked crazy long hours for years with hardly any days or weekends off. I think the daily stresses are just starting to wear on him. (Me too, of course, but that's a subject for a different post!) If I recognize what the OP is going through in my own co-founder, how should I bring it up?

For those of you who have or are going through this kind of thing, any thoughts on the best way to talk to someone who is struggling with this? I really want to help.
My experience is limited, but there are now at least two hardware startup accelerators (in the bay area), I've watched a robot project go from idea to kickstarter to seed funding, another robot kickstarter go viral and get funded, watched a robot company raise money from the inside, and seen the explosion of open source designs and software for robots. All this in the last two years.

I don't think we're that close to your vision of the robot revolution (we need stronger AI first) but there are many places where robots are now technologically and financially viable where they weren't 5 or 10 years ago.

*Edited for clarity.
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I feel there is almost an oversaturation of stackexchanges now. I often have questions that could fit into a ton of different sub-exchanges, yet when I post it on one I am usually ridiculed into posting it onto another. SO is one of my favorite sites on the internet, but it needs to be clearer as to what sites should be used for what.
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Newell's reactive/empowering mgmt style: "We’re a very flat organization, so we expect everybody to manage themselves...[employees] need to know when to broadcast to me when something’s important...We’re optimized for people who are very experienced and have been working for a long time and don’t really need someone looking over their shoulder or second-guessing their decisions."
One layout that works well is small / tiny offices around an external wall, with conference rooms, bathrooms, corridors etc in the middle.

My current job is at quite old building (70's) with a floor laid out like this, and it's just fantastic. I have enough space for some computers, a room I can work in in peace and quiet, and just enough space for small meetings and co-working when needed.

Any negative effects of being in a private office can be canceled by having office communicator, Yahoo! chat etc.

Typical 70's office buildings seem to often be laid out like this.
I don't think there is a single word for this phenomenon itself. The closest term for the respondent is "narcissistic rage". Perhaps "narcissistic groupthink" for the larger phenomenon of making the OP a heretic or pariah.

As to what you can do, most internet forumgoers don't seem to have a very deep recollection of the past misdeeds of others; as cruel and shallow as commenters get, they're also faster to forget. Unless you dwell in a small or focused community, pretending it never happened is the best way to move forward- preferably shifting your time to a more enlightened forum, or, better yet, coming up with the next big thing.
I really wish this were real.

The only part that really ruins it for me is, where is the battery powering the electric motors?

I mean, since I am ignorant about aerodynamics and a bunch of stuff, I can suspend my disbelief about the wing actually providing enough lift, and suppose that there exist incredibly powerful motors that could operate in that way.

I would even like to believe that there is an ultrapowerful battery that would be able to provide enough juice for these incredible motors. But where is it?

Man I hope Mythbusters does this one!
Yeah, but why promote some crap in which he might not believe?
He could roll Steve Jobs style and have no plate.
As someone who has only worked on extremely small sites, I've never had to deal with scaling/bottlenecks. Do you have any recommended reads on handling DB bottlenecks and the like so I can be prepared when that day comes? Thanks!
Very nice, although I'd say the icon for numbered lists could be better; right now it simply looks like a chunkier version of the bulleted list button.
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Wouldn't it be simpler for Stack Exchange to have a single website for all subjects and just use tags for classification?
Try installing Ghostery. It blocked 11 external JS files from loading on that page for me.

http://www.ghostery.com/
Options exist!

http://haxlr8r.com/

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The point is the size of the audience - there's usually more people in any given reddit forum than in your average coffee shop :)

And _that_ is caused by a qualitative change - physical proximity has become way less important.
I think that is common in Presbyterian churches. Same for me, though we had traditional hymns and piano accompianment. Not sure what is fundamentalist Presbyterian as I only attended 1 church, but things were laid back.
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Probably not, but we should be able to see Google's HUD glasses by the end of the year.
Actually if you do want to "feel" the latency at all in most situations, you'd rather be at 1ms than 10 ms. 10ms still carries a huge lag when you are moving you head around in several directions. 1 ms brings it way closer to being real. We need improvements of a number of magnitudes to reach high resolution, processed graphics and display at 1ms rate to work. We may have some working prototypes within one decade, with commercial applications 10-15 years from now. It could go faster than that, but not very likely.
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The above was linked to in the article.
In addition to equities (stock market) which also have extended trading hours (pre and post market trading) there's also a massive market called futures and another called currencies which are opened nearly 24/7. A ton of money is traded in both those markets.
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