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The preview website works fine and perfect on my MacBook with Firefox though. Try give it some times to load, or is your internet 'fast' enough?

Cheers! =D
The thin air mitigates the distance issue somewhat. Anybody know how much? Solar intensity reduces by the square if distance. If the advantage of thin air multiplies available sunlight at ground level, it may be close to break-even or even better?
Last time I went through Miami, and I live there, the lady stamping my passport didn't speak english. She probably did but, like a few hard headed individuals in Miami, just don't want to. It will take you an hour to clear the airport if you're lucky. 2 and 3 hours is actually common.

If you intend to spend the day at the beach you won't go wrong heading to south beach and the taxi ride is a direct shot (~$20). Don't rely on public transport for anything. October is still hot and humid (hurricane season is still winding down) and the buses are only 10 minutes late if you are lucky.
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High school students are getting advice that made since in the 1970s (when the people who are advising them went to school). Go to college, "find yourself", expand your horizons, etc. Then, that made you special. Today it just makes you one of many without any discernible skills.
What is new about this generation is that they graduate with enormous student loan debt. They already have a "mortgage" or rent payment, only it goes towards their loans.

We desperately need good alternatives to current universities, indeed... the current default path of getting a degree by taking on enormous debt is just not viable in this economic environment.

But I also understand the cynicism of a couple responses. I have a few facebook friends in their twenties, and often enough, I read status messages like "I'm so broke and can't find a job (Posted from my IPhone)" or "I just spend two hours applying for ten jobs, will probably not hear back from any of them" (yes, most likely). Also - probably in part due to the large debt occurred to get their specific degree - some fresh graduates seem unwilling to expand their job search beyond their chosen field.
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I'm going the other route. I'm planning to dis the Firefox and go completely Google with Chrome, Gmail, Reader, Search, History, whatever....sync the sucker! I am only going to let Google know about me what I want them to know about me.

Accept or not but Google is the AOL of today and it is more complicated today than it was in the past to use just the IE for Internet.
Link to the email: http://f.cl.ly/items/1k0m0Z231Q3I2i3u1n0I/Screen%20shot%2020...
Here's a link to the NPR article from a few days ago:

http://www.npr.org/2012/03/12/148252561/on-utahs-silicon-slo...

And the (empty) HN discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3698438
I totally understand your vision of travel. Socialization is not inherent in traveling, you can discover wonderful places without wanting to talk to complete strangers, especially other people traveling like you.
Copyright protects someone from copying your media -- whether it be text from a book, a recorded song, etc.

A Patent is for a new way to make something like a business process, or a new thing itself like a new type of light bulb.

If you simply have an idea for a web site, you should just work on it yourself to get it as far as possible and then bring in other experts. Like another poster mentioned, ideas are relatively easy to come by. Executing on that idea to actually create something that people want to use is the hard part.
I understand that. What I don't understand is why this is being done: what are the drivers?
I think a big part of the problem is that in the UK people are encouraged by society to study what they are interested in ("it's about expanding your mind") and told that having any degree will give them a big advantage over the competition regardless. This may have been true 30 years ago but it isn't today.

I remember some time ago I was out for a drink with a number of students who were completing a course in film study (studing film as literature rather than the practical business of making film).

I asked them what their plans were after they graduated and almost all of them said "go back, get my masters and then try and get a job lecturing".

Well it doesn't take a genius to figure out that unless there will be an exponential growth of students interested in studying film every 5 years or so that this is a pyramid that will collapse very quickly.
The UK surprised me

I'm surprised at your surprise. The thing to remember is that terrorist groups has been a real and continuous threat in many European countries since at least the 60's. So airport security is something they've been taking seriously for decades and as such serious men with sub-machines guns have always been part of the scenery in most major European airports.
Because learning git is not mainly about learning the commands. You can write them down on a Post It note and stick it on your wall. It's about learning about how the whole thing is organized, and different metaphors work for different people.
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Get over yourself. It's great that you're 30, have assets and a good life, and have never been unemployed. Huge swaths of the generation you so casually refer to as "whiners" will never have the chance to make those claims regardless of what they do or don't expect from the world, and you scoff at them from your comfortable perch.

Let's have some perspective - when kids decide whether and where to go to college, and agree to take on its debt, they are 17 and know nothing about the world, about job markets, about mortgage rates, about growth industries and dying industries. They are told by their parents and other adult influencers to study what they are passionate about because in America you can be whatever you want to be if you try hard enough and if you go to a good school. So the dumb 17-year-olds of this "whiner" generation went to college during a strong economy and played along with all the adult assurances that they would do great, and they graduated to a world with no work and especially not for most people who studied something they were "passionate" about.

It's such crap to scorn people for regretting decisions they were led into when they were clueless. People need to take responsibility for their own success, but our society needs to be thinking long and hard about how it has failed this generation and how to avoid failing the subsequent ones.
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I actually wrote this into a founders agreement. If we decide to give up on the product, the company shall release the source under a BSD license.

I realize it might not actually be that simple post-acquisition or some such, but at least at present it gives me the option of a consolation prize. I could take all the cool bits with me to use on the next project.
I thought casinos were mostly fronts for money laundering, but since this has a story to it, there is credibility that a growth industry like gambling has real credibility in the startup scene. Therefore, there should be more gaming startups in YCombinator.
About 6 years ago, and I don't miss it! I still print specs because when working on a team, it's very handy.
While the RAF were redoubtably active in Germany in the 80s they hadn't dropped any bombs on it for some time.

I suspect your mean the IRA?
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I'm older than you are, evidently. Over the years, as I've read literature from various eras and traveled to various places, I've learned that people can feel under more constant surveillance, and BE under more constant surveillance, in a small, isolated town or village than as citizens of a modern high-technology state. And yet in 1989 people in several parts of central Europe rose up for freedom--courageously doing so even after the Tian'anmen Square Massacre was a worldwide news story--and defeated the secret police organizations of totalitarian dictatorships. You can still fight for freedom. That takes courage, but you'll find the courage if freedom means that much to you. I'm wondering when the tens of thousands of local uprisings that China reports each year in its official press will coalesce into a national movement for freedom.
Most of the space on a website today is filled with rendered text and CSS-styled elements. There are just not that many high-resolution images on the average site today, unless it's media-heavy (Flickr, etc.), and then you already know that it's a high-bandwidth site.

But, anyway, I predict that vector UI components will overtake raster images, thanks the increasing fragmentation of display resolutions on Apple's iOS devices.
I've lived here long enough to see the pattern.

I live in California; and in San Francisco. Every election there are additional taxes on the ballot. This year there are 3 different proposals to raise taxes by various amounts. Locally, the MUNI is out of money and is planning on raising rates, parking fees, etc. The City had to issue bonds to do basic street maintenance.

It's a never-ending cycle.
I'll just answer with this: nobody who goes will be thinking like that. Sure there are problems, but really, all of them are solvable - we're not 16th-century folks grappling with science, we're 3rd-millenium folks with centuries of science behind us.

Graphene filters to purify sublimated water-ice. Solar cells manufactured from sand and plastic. Oxygen siezed from rocks, lots at first but then just recycled thru green growing things.

Plenty of folks starved in the New World when their support systems ran out, doesn't matter whether it was oxygen or food, dead just the same. The point is, they were willing to take the risk with a whole continent to win.

Now its a whole planet! With different challenges, different storms and temperatures. Without challenges like locusts, floods, communication issues, pesky natives to deal with.
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I'm really surprised they don't mention "I'd love to move but I can't sell my house in the current market." I know at least five people in this boat.
Sean Ellis is one of the best startup marketing people I've read. This post and other posts on his blog might be useful to you.
I think what most of you are missing is that many cellular providers provide only a fixed number of bits every month.

If you go over you face a large penalty.

So, this isn't such a big deal for those with the wifi version and virtually unlimited bandwidth at home.

It's a problems for those use those fancy new 4G LTE plans (like mine) that will use up your allocated bits much faster.

You'll be able to load those large images faster, however, that counts against your monthly download limit.

Something to think about as unlimited plans are rare.

Verizon just sent me an offer for the new iPad.

The available data plans are:

2GB for $30

5GB for $50

10GB for $80

Those on the 2GB should consider at least consider this point.
Is Google the hole in your Android security?
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Mine isn't good, which is why I don't recommend it. But you should be able to find a reasonably good USB microscope at places like Think Geek, or similar gadget sites.
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I think what was meant was more along the lines of "if people knew they couldn't incur severe permanent damage..."

The problem seems to be that if you fall off the "middle-class bandwagon" in the US, it's very difficult to get back on. Since medical emergencies or the like can easily do this to you, people who might be willing to take a reasonable risk become more focused on minimizing the risk of a really bad outcome than on maximizing expected outcome.
If you're storing something like followers or friends, a solution like Redis, Neo4J, Cassandra, etc is likely a better (and simpler to implement) choice.
Red Army Faction, not Royal Air Force :-)

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction
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It's simple. If there is no work where you are, then you need to move to where the work _is_.

Lots of places are hiring - we are, in the middle of inner nowwhere Midwest. I hear there are jobs going begging in North Dakota, in the oil fields. Not the most pleasant of jobs, but 3rd shift on a rig pays better than not working at all.
Linux and Hurd is not a bad example. It's pretty apt. One is still unfinished since the 80's and the other is at version 3+ and being used in a plethora of OSes. Good example, my friend.

I wouldn't call the writing atrocious but I can see how the first half, while entertaining for sure, awkwardly segued into the real message.
As someone from South America, I'm amazed that in the U.S. you're out of health coverage if you're not employed.

Other safety nets are counterproductive, though. My country has very high firing costs, which means less jobs, and job security is very highly tied to years in the job, so in my case, leaving my dead-end but decently paid job for a better job is a very significant gamble (I basically give up all my unemployment rights for a time if I change jobs voluntarily)
I've only ever had to print code for college and university.

Even then a lot of my university tutors rather code to be submitted on a disk or by making it network accessible instead.
He's a network engineering manager, not a senior systems administrator. Pay in Western New York ranges from 70-100k+, depending on seniority. I imagine Ohio is similar.
HN best practice is to link to the canonical URL for each article,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3571353

and let the user's user agent decide what pagination view to display and how. That often happens automatically on well designed websites. That also helps the Hacker News duplicate submission detector work in its intended way.
It might not be quite that bad, of course the competition for jobs will be higher but as more jobs move east then the wages in these countries will rise so westerners will be able to be more competitive again.

Perhaps also with more automation it will get to the point where costs for a comfortable lifestyle become so low, that it is trivial for the government to support a huge welfare base.
The problem is that the choice of language to learn next is not signal for any of those points. With so many languages and platforms, one has to prioritize based on something. Job prospects is a perfectly fine criteria, even for someone who is curious and not lazy. It's a signal for pragmatism, and that's it.
LOL, have you been to CDG (Paris) yet?
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A cheap Bresser. Though I wouldn't recommend buying a low-end microscope, like the one I use. You should be able to get much better images by investing just a bit more.
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It's also possible that word hasn't spread enough among potential foreign travelers of the pain of the U.S. Border control. A lot of foreign travelers to the US may have not experienced recent border control at all, and so they decide to travel without any real knowledge about that.

The "unwelcome mat" may be damping tourism growth by discouraging repeat visitors rather than outright discouraging all visitors.
I'm not sure that update supports the claim of back tracking.

That was an update after the original piece (sadly not dated) but I think it's more sensible to assume that the update was written in response to Shift Jelly reading it and contacting him, rather than him being in discussion with them before writing it. Certainly I'd think it would be a very odd piece to write if he were already in talks with Shift Jelly.

The piece certainly implies that that there would be discussion around the project ("the details of which we’d work out privately" in relation to the functionality) rather than him thinking that people would just start coding and then come to him with a finished article so it reads more naturally as a clarification than something more radical.
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It's a ridiculous comparison.

I worked in a defense industry in 80s/90s and sometimes we had to visit Eastern Europe.

We were carefully briefed about not carrying any company documents or the early laptops because they might be seized or copied at immigration. We should be careful about anything we said on the phone since calls may monitored and we should expect to be grilled on arrival for some imagined paperwork error.

Now I work for a european aerospace/defense company - and the rules on visiting America are MUCH stricter.
If you are interested in those early years, there is also some video footage of that first class (and interview with PG) in Aardvarked, the Joel Spolsky video made that same summer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NRL7YsXjSg&feature=playe...
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There's nothing like the talent in SF

There is. Seriously.

Travel outside of the west coast of the US a little- there are a ton of great developers that are either unwilling or unable (e.g. visas) to relocate to SF.

And you sort of disprove your own point- there are no engineers available in SF because the big companies have hired them all. So surely that means that areas outside of SF have more engineers available, because no large companies are taking them?
My Aussie passport looks very faded, especially the picture, from Venice. I have had problems in a few countries, Vietnam and Turkey, but never in the USA. I have been there quite a few times before hand, and I always expect the worst now, but have been quite lucky.
Well, as a white middle-class American citizen flying in America, I dread the TSA checkpoints myself.

Sorry, man. :-(
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It is obvious people are being hurt and lives are harmed by the stupidity of copyright laws in this country.
You can represent a graph in just about any data structure.

The key thing that separates a graph database like Neo4j (http://neo4j.org) from a graph represented in a relational database is that in a real graph database, relationships between nodes are explicitly connected so you don't have any overhead from external index look ups during traversals.

Index look ups also degrade the bigger the index gets in a relational database, whereas in a directly connected graph, it doesn't matter how many other nodes or relationships there are in the graph, performance stays constant -- Neo4j for example does about 2 million traversal steps per second (a traversal step resembles a join in a RDBMS).
That's interesting. I guess Apple decided not to enable vsync? I don't recall seeing tearing playing games on my 4S though, can developers elect to turn it back on?
The company pool in Dublin seems large enough to me (relative to the size of the city) when you count the handful of large companies and the many small companies. The pool of (good) candidates is tiny though - I've spoken to a lot of companies at events like PyCon Ireland and the IrishDev conferences a few years back and just word of mouth through less formal events and everyone is looking for employees! Google, Facebook, Amazon, Demonware - they are all hiring and (from talking to people working at them) are having a hard time finding enough people. Then there are lots of small companies that are finding it even harder still to hire (and they can't offer all the perks your Googles and Facebooks can...) - my former employer called me a few times to see would I come back; I get emails and linkedin messages asking if I'm available for work all the time; I get friends sending me messages to see am I available for XYZ.. everyone is having a hard time filling positions. I also don't know if companies just aren't offering enough money, but I get the impression that there just aren't enough good candidates out there.

So, from that, I would say that a startup in Dublin[1] is not a good idea from an availability of talent perspective - there may be talent there, but they're all happily employed.

[1] outside of Dublin, the availability of candidates seems to generally be worse still, though some towns that have schools/ITs/unis but lack of companies (eg Carlow) may have some people who would rather not move to Dublin
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It's rare for websites to cater to your display resolution. So when you use a first gen iPhone your still wasting the same bandwidth as the iPad3 even if you don't notice the difference.
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Probably 30 years ago. ;-) Back then I worked for a laser printer start-up (lots of free printing available), and workstations (Sun, Apollo) were just appearing with larger screens.
Why was there no outcry about Apple including a YouTube app on iOS devices? If you think a few retina images will burn through data try watching a few hours of YouTube.

This is a (rare) complete miss for PPK. Very rash.
by default, text comparisons are case-sensitive - the opposite of mysql. you'll need to enable some 'citext' extension (or come up with some other workaround).

There's other diffs, but that's one of the ones that jumps out.

Other downsides in what respect? Performance? Compatibility? Portability? Until a few years ago, mysql on windows was better supported, but I think pg on windows has closed that gap a lot (haven't used it on windows anything beyond a basic install, so can't comment too much).
I'm a release engineer, and I couldn't agree more with the sentiment of this post. I have immense respect for mjd's work (His articles on Perl saved my bacon more than once - _Suffering with Buffering_ and _Coping with Scoping_ in particular) but this workflow just plain stinks and feels like building a house, then demolishing it and picking through the rubble to build a better house you're satisfied with, rather than (as git was designed to do) experimenting off to the side in a branch and only commiting Good Stuff to your 'for real' branch (master or otherwise.)
there's basically two economies here: one is fecked and the other is the tech industry, with tons of open positions.

So true! Its a great time to be in tech here right now and a terrible time to be in anything else.
One word: vectors
I have often thought that the decline in multi-generational families in the US was due in part to social security, and in part to the increasing demands of mobility. With social security no longer providing the safety net it used to and with mobility down, maybe this is why more multi-generational households are popping up all across America.

I have found it interesting how many people I knew who went off to college and moved back into the same county or even small town where they grew up, after a few years away after college. We are perhaps not as mobile as we'd like to think.
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Creating addiction to sell products
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ (search Mechanics of Addiction)

Token Economy on the wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_economy
I haven't seen them in an airport lately, but National Guard soldiers are in Penn Station in NYC. They are armed with pistols, and spend most of their time flirting.

If they are doing a drill or the threat level goes up, they are armed with rifles, and the cops have sub-machine guns. Fortunately, they are unloaded, so you're less likely to have an incident where they start shooting at some deranged homeless guy. Being deafened by some idiot shooting a rifle down there would suck.
I still occasionally print out short pieces of code that I'm trying to understand. Maybe I'm weird, but if I'm trying to work through and understand some complex function, I still prefer to spread out a bunch of A4's on my desk and trace through it with a pen and hi-lighter.