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"what do you aspire to bring to the world?"

Yes. Yes. Yes. One thousand times, yes. If you're asking me to dedicate my waking hours to something, be clear about what that something is. Hint: It's not your corporation.

I've interviewed at several companies, and the only ones I rejected out of hand are the ones that are just "doing business" and have ceased to chase some vision.

Some companies do really cool stuff, but have no vision (e.g. most of Lockheed Martin) whereas there are companies who do something seemingly less exciting (e.g. Yelp) that have a vision for how they're going to change the world.

In Yelp's case, they're helping great businesses thrive and be found and holding bad companies accountable. As an Aero guy, I'd be predisposed to Lockheed, but frankly, when I talked to Yelp, that kind of thinking made all the difference.
I agree vcs is important
I'm really afraid of CSS having too much logic and driving designers away. I don't want to go back to the days when designers mocked up in Photoshop and had devs (inferior designers) do the CSS.
Judging from what people are saying here, I guess we're lucky. The open source code we're using to publish our iPad magazine is run by AWESOME people who have a lot of passion for their work. They're clear about what the road-map is and let people know that when features are proposed that aren't in it. I can't say enough good things about them, check them out - https://github.com/simbul/baker
It's a good point, I think a lot of job hunters are desperate for a job. They feel like they need to answer all questions correctly. But they don't feel like they are entitled to ask those same questions back.

I have never done this but I would love to ask some tricky code puzzles to a tech interviewer after they have asked me to do their puzzles. If I have to prove that I'm good, then I'd like proof that I'm joining a team that is equally good.
When was the last time you spent all day hanging out with your girlfriend, doing nothing but wasting time? I think a lot of us at HN have a hard time "wasting time" by doing nothing. I know I personally feel very unproductive spending an entire weekend not working on personal projects.

But it's important. My girlfriend and I just spent all Saturday walking around downtown Boston window shopping because the weather was so lovely. It was a great, relaxing day - it felt like vacation.

So do that. Hell, use up some of your vacation days. Your company will survive without you for a week or three.

And stop working so much. Seriously. Set a time and go home regardless of if you have "finished" your stuff for the day. It's a hamster wheel of work and you'll never go home if you have just one more thing to finish.
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Too heavy for what? Playing music? Sure, yeah it's way too heavy for just that. You have to consider all of its functionality and why it was made though.

Movies, music, podcasts, radio, TV, device syncing, iTunes store...etc.

Terrific I guess is a subjective thing, but considering what the software does for so many people that want/need to use it, I'd say that it HAS to be terrific.
By the way, it looks like Zynga is in talks to buy OMGPOP, looks like one big hit is all it takes!
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I always wondered this too. But I have a keyboard with these buttons (really just the Fn keys and an "alternative Fn" function lock key that sends the appropriate shortcuts to Windows) and I never use them. As a touch typist I find it too much of a distraction to move my fingers off the home row and end up sticking with the shortcuts. I'm not sure where else you could really put them without the same problem occurring. Maybe its time to cut our alphabet down to 19 letters and replace the bottom row of alphas with these functions.
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I also like chrome's omnibox, but I dislike their support for rss feeds as a bookmark (live rss) as well as their video adblock (doesn't work).

For firefox, I use the https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/omnibar/ addon, it works quite well for me.

Now if only I could find a way to get firefox tabs into the title bar...
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Keeping in mind that there are exceptions, yes, this is a good mindset. Obviously, there may be things that wind up affecting annual reports if they aren't completed "tonight." It's important to remember that those are the exception, though.
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> they have to support every freaking hardware device out there.

Don't the hardware makers do that?
Not that I want to defend it but could you elaborate what exactly is so awful about it that it distracted you from reading the article. I didn't event notice it myself.
It would be interesting to hear the real answer to "Why is The Times changing its free access from 20 free articles a month to 10?" I guess they think hitting the wall at 10 instead of 20 will drive more subscriptions? I find that doubtful... as mentioned in another comment, the price is rather expensive and a huge step up from free. When I hit the pay wall, I just go "oh well" and read something else.
I emailed them a complaint a month or two ago, and someone from Tim Cook's office phoned me back.

What exactly are you trying to complain about?
If they need you and you don't take care of yourself to prevent burnout, then they'll be let down.
Yes, they are now creating a new variable in the `foreach` loop each time.

They aren't doing the same for regular `for` loops so their behavior with respect to lambdas won't change.
There's also the PaySafeCard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paysafecard), which I wish would have a lot more adoption than it currently has, especially outside the EU.

You can buy them at gas stations or supermarkets, pay completely in cash and receive a code (although you don't have to, you can also exchange money for codes online), which you then use to pay online. You stay completely anonymous that way, and it's quite convenient. They don't even charge transaction fees, though they start deducting small fees from a code after a certain time period if it isn't used up (I think it was a year). You can check the cash balance of a code on their website.
I'm an Apple fan, and I agree, stuff breaks. This is a non-news story.
"The company does not charge a transaction fee to people using its service to send each other money."

This was a good hook that cost them a lot of money. But it's changing to be more Dwolla-y...from an email I received a few days ago:

Until May 1st,

You can continue using Venmo the way you do now.
You can opt to switch to bank payments at any time by following a few simple steps. Click here to switch now.

Starting May 1st for you (and starting today for new users),

To continue using Venmo for free, you must switch to bank payments.
If you still want to use your credit card, you can set it as your funding source, but you will be charged 3% to cover credit card processing fees.
Incidentally and completely off-topic, unless your mental associations are as loose as mine, but I was recently rather shocked to find out that alcohol is a neurotoxin (http://het.sagepub.com/content/26/3/251.abstract - just google for a mountain worth of references). This is plain scary.
Wasn't it just a user interface for Dynamics running somewhere else?
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I'm a a debugger. I can't stand to look at a blank screen since I never know where to start. However, I love it when someone toss a difficult bug at me. I can spend days pouring over code in nothing but a debugger and live for the rush when a simple change fixes everything.

We have a running joke on my team that I come out of the bullpen as the setup man and hand it off to our closer. We'll have meetings where it comes and my colleagues will say, "Put him in coach." It works for us since most people are starters and one guy is a great finisher.
There's nothing inherent in the nature of tablets or iOS that prevents them from being used for learning programming. It's purely an issue of the availability of suitable apps.

Have a look at Codea (http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/) for an example of such a tool.

(Disclaimer: I know the guy who wrote it, but i genuinely believe its a very cool environment for learning programming and writing basic games)
No CoffeeScript support for now but I'm working on a way to allow users to add their own syntax highlighting schemes.

Although not natively, you can configure DroidEdit to use git as long as you edit your code remotely via SFTP. There's a post where I explain how to do it here: http://droidedit.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/using-git-with-dro...
I don't disagree, but to play the devil's advocate..

How soon until Dell, HPs (etc) ship more desktops with SSDs than with mechanical drives? The average consumer doesn't understand the difference and doesn't want to pay extra (even though it's probably the best performance/$ upgrade possible).

On the flip side, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw significant adoption for servers that can live with the space limit (or that can design around it). Server-based applications are often I/O bound, established solutions are expensive, and the people responsible know and care.
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I've managed to convince most of my circle of friends to sign up for and use Venmo, and I'm glad that I did. Makes splitting lunch bills, paying people for beer, collecting utilities from a roommate, splitting a cab, etc. so much easier. Cash feels terrifyingly archaic, credit cards only slightly less so. PayPal? Hah. What is this, 2004? Cashing out is quick and the iPhone app is great. Its simplicity is its strength.
This is interesting since you could effectively use CloudFront as a proxy by setting the TTL to 0 and using a custom origin.
The issue is speed. CSS has to be fast if we want to display pages quickly. An alternative I prefer is lesscss.org or sass-lang.com.
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> I think that if all religion where gone tomorrow, that the world would not be a better place.

Seriously? You think religions that tell people to behead unbelievers, circumcise (read: mutilation) without permission, kill animals in horrific, ritualist ways helps our world be a better place?

> but that has little to do with the content of religion and everything to do with the fact that humans are involved.

"The boss says if we don't do 1000 units by the end of the day, you're all fired"

or

"God says if you don't kill 1000 unbelievers this solstice there will be no food for 10,000 years!"

I don't know about you, but I am going to say people blindly following orders is probably a bad thing. Especially if your job is on the line. :P
I have also used keyboards that have extra buttons for things like this, but somehow I have felt reluctant to make the effort to use them because they are not standard and most other keyboards dont have them, which would frustrate me more!

Who is in charge of keyboard standards? If there isn't anybody, could we start a new keyboard layout organization!?!?
As much as I like bashing Microsoft (and they do make buggy software), this is not an apples to apples comparison - Apple has much more control over the complete stack than Microsoft does. And Apple software is hardly perfect either.

What Apple (Jobs, really) did was always rehearse every keynote to exhaustion (his and everyone else's), until everything is absolutely perfect. Not everyone is as perfectionist as Jobs was.

I had IIS blue-screen on me in front of a full audience (yes, I once worked for the evil empire). And I did rehearse the damn thing a good couple times.
I'm a designer and I just finished moving our product form CSS to Less.js (server-side preprocessed). This allowed me to define variables such as @baseColor, @buttonColor etc. so that the developers working on the project can use those instead of copy/pasting colours from other places and making a huge mess.

Variables are not logic. Once CSS seizes being declarative and starts becoming a programming language, I think we might start seeing problems, but the author is not suggesting adding an if-statement to CSS (one might argue that media queries are already conditional enough).
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There may be a reason beyond the product that they're doing this; it might be a talent acquisition, they might think Draw Something has too much traction for them to compete, or they might think the company's portfolio of games is strong. OMGPOP has stuggling making a hit (until DrawSomething), so now that they're in the national spotlight, Zynga might like what they have to offer.
oh shit, you have to allocate an hour to your girlfriend, that right there is a problem.

You have no down time, I dont mean time working on your open source pojects, i mean time when you watch movie, read a book, walk the dog, go to the cinema or for a meal or soemthing. 3 hours in the evening is barely enough time to wind down from a day at work and get ready to sleep.

hope you get good advice that helps you. All i can say is try to re-prioritise your life rather than your work.
CSS constants! Names, symbols, whatever. Just don't call them something that implies they change all the time.
You hit the nail on the head. I've been hacking perl for about 15 years now, and I stay with it because I can be so spectacularly productive with it! People sometimes think I'm some kind of super genius, but it's just perl enabling me to bang out new features in no time at all. :)

If you're coming back to perl, read Modern Perl. Then learn Moose and its ecosystem. That will get you about 90% of the way to writing good, maintainable perl. :)
No, but a privacy conscious user would prefer to use Chromium which doesn't come with the Google privacy invasion built-in.
Still, Linux runs on just about everything between a 68000 and an IBM mainframe. As does NetBSD.

I find the propensity to lie disturbing.
I think what's throwing me (and possibly others) off is the first example on the features page. I know what you're saying, but "dumbed down social media tools" and "here's how you sign up for an account on twitter" are pretty different. I've signed up for a beta invite tho.
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Or you can just open nytimes.com in private/incognito mode and read to your heart's content.
Oh, I'm not the OP. Just commenting that Apple already puts it on your device through iCloud, so half the problem has been solved.
Pretty please... just a couple.
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This isn't even close to being an 'issue'.

Unless maybe you are living in the 80s and using a Spectrum 48k?

Speed. Christ.
> This is a terrible graph.
I suppose it depends on the perspective. From an investor's perspective it's actually a very interesting graph that visually (partly) explains the ongoing explosion of AAPL profits.
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No need for snark, it's an interesting point. So the US with lower tax rates and fewer government benefits actually imposes more on the wealthy than other so-called 'socialist' countries. If that's the case, it suggests to me that the wealthy should be trying to copy the European model, not fighting it, since according to your argument they would be paying less under such a system, not more as they typically argue. It's interesting to me that you don't see the plain implication of your own argument.
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Depending on what stage you are guys are in your startup should be able to survive a week without you. What if something happened that forced your or your cofounder to be gone for X amount of time? You need safeguards up to protect against the unexpected.
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I think most programmers can earn more by doing 'finisher work' than doing 'starter work'. I am a starter by heart, but I earn more money by maintaining a big Java system than I would have working for example at a small startup. Of course this is not true for prestigueous/famous programmers. They get the 'starter' jobs even in high-paying positions.
I'm going to guess the same thing that made me hate it: it covers up the first few letters of about 10 lines in the middle of the window.
No. I never got any projects but I don't do consulting/freelancing anyway. However, I got over dozen requests to be co-founder from people who told me they found my details in that spreadsheet.
HN's ranking algorithm is pretty good, just give it some time, it will kick in to make sure only the good content stays on top.
I agree that the name is confusing. They really aren't variables.
You make a good point, but real designers know how to code (at the very least HTML/CSS). I'd consider any veteran designer who tells you they're "frightened by code" to not be worth it. Perhaps new concepts like variables will just be natural selection for the front-end.

I'm a designer, by the way.
I hadn't seen that spec before. That really is one truly awful spec on so many levels.

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-variables/
I'm always surprised by how effective #2 can be.

I had a particularly rough Friday last week and so I decided to skip coming home in favor of a long bike ride.

I was fully expecting to go home, mope around, and fall asleep. Instead I came home - clear headed - and had a great weekend.

--

I'd also recommend biking as a great form of exercise.
Personally I don't like the gym, memberships can get kind of pricy, and for some reason I always feel uncomfortable at a gym.

Biking however gives you access to tons of free trails, it's great for your cardiovascular system (you won't get ripped biking, but you will feel fantastic.)

Plus being out on a scenic trail does wonders for your mental health.

Just my $0.02
An ~60x240 box hovering over the text with only the word 'tweet' in it.
"At least k" might imply that removing more than k nails is necessary to make the picture fall, which is not the case. I think "exactly k" is perfectly clear.
Ask PG: Does YC teach companies how to write job descriptions?
Based on this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3726962

Glimcat wrote:

"I wonder that YC doesn't include an hour session on "how to write a job post that your target audience won't classify as spam."

Does YC cover how to write job descriptions?
Actually, I think "hire them on a temporary basis" is more egomaniacal than obsessing over job interview questions. For someone to work for you as a temp, they have to leave their current full time job and put their benefits in jeopardy. When you hire someone, you should be ready to commit.

I think it's safe to go this way with jobless developers looking to get a job. If your candidate is on a full-time job, you should certainly commit.
I wonder what this will do to the divorce rate.
That's actually what meditation is mostly about. With a breathing meditation, you just pull your focus back to your breath every time you get distracted. That's it. All the stuff about having to close your eyes, or sit with your knees behind your head while a guru throws a bucket of water at you is just dogma. So, funnily enough, you already do meditate.
I really don't see how this would have a major negative impact on speed. If anything, it will allow CSS files to be smaller reducing the amount of data being downloaded to the client and may actually improve performance.
According to me good code is what makes the comment unnecessary. And writing such a thing requires understanding many things. And those things are language agnostic.

Like some one mentioned in this thread, languages tend to be judged by the quality of code produced by their worst user.

For once you can write unreadable code in any language. Even in C and Lisp. In fact there you can create bigger problems and more unreadable code.
Nope, I don't believe it. There aren't any Under Construction signs anywhere.
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Good point. Don't know the answer so..

Just posted an "Ask PG" on that.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3729354
Higher PPI is more important, not less, as your eyesight degrades. Turns out pixelation is bad for your eyes. The advantage to having a higher PPI is that things are clearer, not smaller as some windows aficionados have come to expect.

Nobody is significantly investing in desktop pc display technology right now as far as I know, not samsung or LG, it's very stagnate. That's the point, PC R&D seems as good as dead. It's a big shame, I would really love a decent display for my workstation.
Aside: I am maybe 50-60 hours into my first haskell project using yesod. I have read about half of "real world haskell" and about half of "learn you a haskell".

Other than this, all of my experience is in iterative languages. (c++,python,php).

One thing that comes up is "if your program compiles it's almost certain to be correct"; and it has been true again and again for me. It's an odd, eery feeling that honestly I haven't quite groked how it is happening that way.

I don't understand completley what I am doing, a combination of not thinking like a FPer, not knowing the idioms of Yesod, and not being entirely familiar with the syntax of Haskell; so I am sometimes stuck on "how" to get the type that I need.

So I will sometimes try a couple things almost randomly; then it will compile and it basically is always doing what I want it to do.
Yes...?

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In fact I've heard of many cases being taken to the CCMA for this very reason.
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The discussion about questionable labor practices and sweatshops distracts us from the biggest problem Western countries should have with China: China is a totalitarian state, a one party dictatorship.

The comparison between India and China is flawed: India is a democracy (albeit far from perfect), China is not. China is a dictatorship that has been violating human rights on a massive scale for decades and decades.

Call me old-fashioned, but I try to avoid doing business with totalitarian regimes. It just isn't right. My heart bleeds every time I buy a gadget or any other product made in China. Most of the time I don't even have a choice. Oh, Made In Taiwan, where are you?

And perhaps it's time to ask ourselves: is it really a good idea to transfer and outsource more and more technological research and production - one of the cornerstones of our modern and future society - to a totalitarian state like China?
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Why arent people using SVG for this sort of thing? Isnt that HTML5's vector graphics format?

I supose if you're using icons w/ the express purpose of using them with in-line text, then this would be Ideal... but just seems like a weird hack, when there is SVG available...

The author of this website claims to simply be ignorant of SVG at the bottom? whats up with that?

Why is using a font "hack" better than using the intended container for vector graphics?

I guess web design has always sorta been about pushing the bounderies of browser quirks, but I kinda thought we were moving away from that. You would think the intended use of vector graphics would be designed to be just as good if not better than using a font to do the same thing.