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I've been working on adding access over WiFi to "Handbag for Android" an app that helps you create Arduino-based accessories for Android devices without writing Android code. (http://handbagdevices.com/)

Up until now Handbag has only used the Android Open Accessory Protocol/ADK but one of the requests I've had has been to make it work over WiFi as well.

Taking the opportunity to also re-architect the app a bit.

My project log for March is available at http://www.labradoc.com/i/follower/p/android-arduino-handbag... for more details.

(Did I mention you can also start a project log for your project at Labradoc? http://www.labradoc.com/ :) )
Thanks for that - they changed the link on me :)
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Hmm, I feel like Acunu and Mixpanel would let me focus on my first love (C/systems hacking), Acunu and Fastly would let me be the most active in open source, and ThoughtWorks would have the most travel (that's right, folks, I actually want to travel for business - I like going places but vacations bore me).

This is all conjecture of course as I've worked at exactly 0 of the places I've listed :)
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It has been observed that as online communities like HN grow, the signal-to-noise ratio falls on a progression that can be summarized as HN -> Reddit -> Digg. As we become more complacent regarding downvotes on well-written comments because we disagree or not downvoting witty fluff, HN slides farther and farther into the noise pit. No one yet knows how to permanently stave off the Diggnation of HN. But, in the mean time, it is worth trying to delay as much as possible.
Not really disagreeing with you, but I think it is important to remember that these governments or companies are comprised of individuals following their individual incentives. Those incentives cover a huge range of things beyond simple financial gain.

So while 10% of something 1000 times bigger is definitely better than 50% of the base, that isn't really the issue. It is not as though in an extractive government the loot is divided at the end of the year according to rank or something. It's a bit more catch-as-catch-can.

Basically, and I guess this is what the book is arguing, in the absence of the kinds of institutions that enforce or engender inclusive policies and practices, people do whatever they can get away with.
I found interesting that ast uses a falacy strategy on his argument, specifically Ad verecundiam And ad hominem
I see the same in California on Chrome and Firefox when coming from HN.
My favorite user experience/prototyping story comes from the development of the Palm Pilot. From Wikipedia:
Before starting development of the Pilot, Hawkins said he carried a block of wood, the size of the potential Pilot, in his pocket for a week.

I used and programmed for a IIIx. It was snappy, had a full productivity suite built-in, and there was some sort of Instapaper-like app that would bundle web pages and sync them onto the Palm. It was revolutionary for bathroom reading. ;-)

I still carry my old Tungsten T when I'm in Japan, since the JEDict (dictionary/character lookup) implementation is way better than on any other device I've tried.
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I recall working on IBM's Comdex '90 presentation -- 7 OS2 machines all working together on the same network! It was a pretty cool OS, actually reminded me of Amiga.
> Those two things, gun culture and death penalties, are massive.

I oppose both, but some things are more important than personal safety.

> The constitution is not an effective check on federal power; the commerce clause seems to have magical capabilities.

The constitution is in many ways an effective check on all levels of government, but not in all matters. Arguing about the commerce clause is very bizarre, however -- I have to think you don't understand what it's been used for if you're dragging this into a discussion of basic rights.

> asserted the authority to unilaterally assassinate US citizens without a trial

I suggest reviewing the SAS's conduct in Northern Ireland.

> At least RIPA creates legal justification for intelligence monitoring of communications. The US executive appeared to just unilaterally appropriate that capability with retroactive immunity.

The fact that warrantless surveillance had to be done in secret is exactly the point. I prefer a country where such evil must be carried out covertly to one in which it is openly accepted.
I think my position is obvious, and naturally believe that the majority of right-thinking people have come to the same conclusion.

But the rest of your comment makes very little sense to me. Blokhin seems to have been an instrument of state power. I don't see any relationship, necessary, causal, or otherwise, between an executioner and a pragmatic principle of equality.

I also haven't "excommunicated" philosophies on the grounds of association. Rather, I have explained a rationale for a taboo around discussion of certain topics. If "association" with the reprehensible is sufficient grounds for "excommunication", a random walk through Wikipedia should be sufficient to convince oneself that one can trivially "excomunnicate" everything; reductio ad absurdum, hence mere association is not enough.
Yes, sugar is toxic. It was never found in a natural diet for humans in the high quantities it is now ingested by people. The two major effects it has on the body is: 1) simultaneously raising blood sugar levels while promoting insulin resistance when it is eaten, and 2) promoting the glycation process that badly affects metabolic processes. Do a google search on "Advanced Glycation End Products" (also called AGEs) for a better understanding of what exactly sugar does to you.
That's correct, I misremembered, but cannot edit my original post. Sorry! :/
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This right here is one of the more annoying message board tics.
Keep downvoting, but this won't change the fact that LearnBoost released something that was not ready for prime time. Also learn to read carefully before downvoting as the key word is "unexpected", i.e. I obviously like LearnBoost.
I agree, I'm just playing with his words to make my point. The fact is it takes a little bit of insanity to leave your secure workplace and spend most of your savings for a less than 10% chance of success.
Yep. For both OS/2 and NT, you had to buy an expensive high-end PC off a pretty narrow hardware-compatibility list, and the user experience wasn't too great (long boot times, laggy UI, etc.) The genius of Windows 95 was that it could sit on top of whatever strange legacy DOS drivers you were using and still provide some modicum of stability.

However, as the article mentioned, OS/2 did have huge corporate adoption, especially in finance and insurance. (Largely because IBM bundled it to their mainframe customers.) Most of these places switched to Windows when new OS/2 software dried up around 1996, but it wasn't uncommon to see an OS/2 terminal on a bankers desk well into the 2000s. (And I'm sure some places are still running it in a VM for some old internal software.)

Where IBM didn't have a clue is when they tried to market OS/2 to consumers and smaller businesses. Yes, you could go into the store and buy a boxed copy. But if you wanted to connect your computers to a network, you had to call an IBM enterprise sales rep. Assuming they even returned your call, and you figured out which alphabet soup packages to order, it was about $200/machine for the same basic filesharing which was included in Windows.
I do still have my t-shirt about the flight to Chicago being delayed...
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He was great in The Butterfly Effect, but the role was pretty much perfect. He's excellent at playing nice, slightly dopey characters. I think that he could capture the hippie side of Jobs, but I'm not sure if he can act mean enough.
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I'm pretty sure that's not what people mean when they talk about appeal to authority. An actual appeal to authority is fine. A fallacious appeal to authority is one where the 'authority' in question has little or questionable authority in the area being discussed.
I liked 100000 better.
> ...and meaning longer transaction confirmation times (for at most 2 weeks, while the network adjusts to the change in capacity)

To be clear, it wouldn't be two weeks. The network adjusts every 2016 blocks, which under normal circumstances would be approx. 2 weeks. Typically it's a little less as new hash power comes online, but in the case of a drastic loss of hash power, it could be much much longer than two weeks. We saw that with namecoin where it took almost half a year between adjustments (or would have, if developers hadn't intervened with merge mining).
In fact, IcedCoffeeScript (http://maxtaco.github.com/coffee-script/) already implements this, using keywords called "await" and "defer".
This reminds me of when the creator of minecraft was streaming a coding session via Justin.tv while he was pumping out a game for a contest.
"The genius of Windows 95 was that it could sit on top of whatever strange legacy DOS drivers you were using and still provide some modicum of stability."

On the other hand, this helped Novell continue the DR-DOS lawsuit against MS. OS/2 1.x had little drivers initially, but it was beginning to improve by 1991, and OS/2 2.0 could use OS/2 1.x drivers.
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I have a bachelors, masters, and a bit of doctoral work in music performance (guitar).

While music is pretty far from CS, you do learn a lot about how to tackle and break down problems from music theory/analysis courses. In short, I feel like my music degrees taught me a lot about how to learn.

Knowledge you pick up in school is nice. But I'd say the real thing people get out of any degree program is some insight into how they learn. Those skills can happily be applied to any subject.
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You don't need to get technical about it, but I think most people would expect any test described as scientific to be objective.
If resemblance was a major factor then they'd bring back Noah Wyle.
The parent posted a link to a 1,500 word argumentative essay backed up with inline references to 19 peer reviewed journal papers and included the words "check it out here and make up your own minds". Instead of making any comment on the content of said essay, you merely compared credentials of the speakers.

Which poster seems more guilty of a fallacious argument?
I'd like to but can't, because his "actively destructive to the healthy functioning of that ecosystem" also applies to Apple's iOS app store and the independence of my profession. I hope he reconsiders the landlord he accepted.
I think you heard a couple of things wrong.

For starters, there are pathways for breaking down fat, storing it, and burning it in the body.

Secondly, refined sugars incorporating fructose are all about equivalently bad.

Thirdly, when you go over a certain smallish amount of fructose, your liver has to respond to eliminate this 'toxin' from the body, which produces really bad LDL cholesterols, which contributes to stroke and heart disease risk.

On the basics, and this is the slightly confusing thing for those new to this topic, your body really only uses glucose sugar directly. There is a whole mechanism dedicated to storing glucose as glycogen (in the liver), and then retransforming it and burning it when you need energy. This does not work with fructose, which has to be transformed to fat, stored, then burned later.

This nutritional disadvantage of fructose would be enough for me to stop eating it, even without all the other problems.

The US move from complex carbs like starch that can be broken down to glucose in the body and readily used by cells, to poorer quality foods with much added (cheap) fructose, has massively increased the amount of fructose we ingest, and according to Lustig, increased the damage to our bodies.

I personally don't eat refined / fructose sugar except in fruit and small amounts of honey or jam, and the times when I have a something like a cookie with lots of sugar, I really really feel the effects, the worst being a sort of sugar come-down that manifests as extreme irritability.
You'll admit, though, that a bitcoin lost is lost forever, and that at some point the rate of lost bitcoins will exceed the rate of newly minted bitcoins. Even if it attains 100% adoption, the current system will simply dissipate.

In that sense, if not insecure, it certainly isn't resilient.
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Note that this is a review by the (economically conservative) Economist.

I haven't read Why Nations Fail, but I do read their blog[1] and my interpretation of their theories is much less absolute than the Economist's is - or rather, I think the emphasis is more on the problems of Extractive institutions (which may well be state institutions, but also could be private institutions or hybrids or the two).

For example, even in the review the Economist highlights the example of Botswana which is a good example of state power as a good.

Another example: the (book) authors are very positive about the potential impact of Jim Yong Kim on the World Bank: http://whynationsfail.com/blog/2012/3/27/mr-kim-vs-the-world...

[1] http://whynationsfail.com/
I did, but I worked at IBM at the time.

Recall downloading the beta tests repeatedly, over a dozen 1.44Mb disk images, over the internal SNA network. Had to transfer them to my local mainframe, then down to my PC, then cut to a disk. Typically did that one night and the install the next night. Depending on how good or bad the beta was it would take a couple of hours, or all night (since I HAD to have a working system the next day). Was the first time the PC/OS2 folks allowed anyone outside of Boca to participate in the beta testing.

Coming from a Mac/XWindows background at the time, I didn't think OS/2 1.3 was all that special. 2.0 "felt" much better than either Win 3.1 or System 7 at the time. But it was so tied to IBM's PS/2 systems that even if you wanted to run it on your home system you were likely out of luck.

Compatibility improved over time, but not quickly enough to counter Windows. Plus the PC/PSG folks did anything and everything they could to require "most favored nation" status with OS/2, while at the same time courting Microsoft to ensure Windows '95 ran well out of the gate on the Aptivas, Thinkpads and whatever other brands I can't recall.

One of the potential advantages that OS/2 had, which IBM blew, was its TCP/IP stack was pretty good, much, much, much better than what was on Windows at the time ('92-94). Even then, IBM initially made it a separate package (I have no idea how much it cost) because as we all know, the future is LU6.2 networking over SNA.

IBM employee desktops were required to be OS/2 well into 1998-1999. But since IBM killed off WebExplorer, and Netscape Navigator for OS/2 was always just a little bit too off to be considered serious, many of us were using Windows '95 by late 1996 or early 1997. I finally made the switch over to Windows '95 permanently in mid-1998 when I realized I couldn't see the ibm.com homepage redesign we were launching.
Upvote. Also candied fruit.
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OS/2 2.0 was not tied to PS/2 systems and clones was officially supported.
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I don't think his comment was in jest. There isn't another actor that would select to play the role of Jobs. Regardless if he already played the part. Ashton, however, has higher appeal to the masses compared to Noah, which will ultimately create a higher probability of a box office success.
I honestly don't know. Someone with experience using the developer tools within Firefox or Chrome or Safari to review the code and see what you're really using vs. what's been thrown in with the kitchen sink.
There is definitely luck involved, but there have also been some specific choices I made. I've always sought jobs where my efforts directly contribute to a interesting physical product. Whether advanced HVAC, automotive, or now avionics, the stuff I helped make was always cool. These products, usually from big companies, tend to use older software technologies, but the entire product is often quite advanced which keeps the interest level high. Furthermore, you might work on things that end up teaching you all sorts of stuff well outside the pure software realm.

I think if my Big Co. jobs were purely corporate IT stuff and not core product development, I would have quickly bailed out.
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Ahhh, if I remember right, the whole thing is basically a wing, and will fly at some slight positive angle of attack.

As far as the model goes, it is probably constructed to be extremely light. It certainly appeared to have quite sprightly performance, implying lightness, since ducted fans aren't known for their especially high thrust.
This reminds me of the (real) game Realm of the Mad God, a "run 'n' gun" MMORPG with 8-bit style graphics built in Flash:

http://www.edery.org/2011/06/realm-of-the-mad-god/

Now that I think about it, the game is basically a Gauntlet MMORPG! :)
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I do mindfulness meditation, because I like it. "Insight meditation" is another name for a same/similar kind of meditation.

It helps me be in touch with my emotions/body/appetite etc. Even when they're unwell. I would otherwise shy away from acknowledging/considering/contemplating things I don't like. Sometimes this helps me when I feel overcome with guilt (for me I usually feel guilty about minor things that I only feel guilty about because I'm a perfectionist who is appalled by hurting a metaphorical flea. Or, regrets.).

If other people know other kinds of meditation better, I'd love to hear about them too.
By task estimation hours I simply meant estimating how long tasks will take. It's a pretty normal part of most software development practices. I don't work at a TPS labyrinth.
I'd love to. Sending you an email now.
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I wanted to know how Julia compares to Python as a normal file-parser so I made this gist: https://gist.github.com/2280733

It seems that in this case, Julia is extremely slow compared to Python, probably because the LVVM stuff has to fire up first...

Any thoughts?

Edit: Submitted it on GitHub and it seems to be a genuine bug: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/661
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Thanks! I've received mixed feedback on that effect. People seem to either love it or hate it.
It makes work about gaming the system if you work with a shitty manager. I don't. It is just for the managers to have a reasonable estimate of how the project is doing.
I'm enjoying it. One thought I have is, maybe time compression tools for playback. The pressure to keep interesting makes it harder to work.
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Wow, your story is very familiar to me (without the successful startup, sadly!). I'm British too, and simply found all the options available to someone interested in the web severely lacking. I'd done a couple of years of building websites for small businesses and such, and I was pretty much ahead of everyone I could find (admittedly I was from a fairly sleepy area).

I ended up joining a course but dropped out after less than a month; the first sign that it wasn't going to work out was at the initial interview where someone said "You've done some web work I see? I bet you'll be able to teach me a thing or two!" that person was the head lecturer.

Algorithms, advanced maths, and cryptography are also the areas I feel I lack.

All in all, I don't think I've suffered in the slightest either. Finding the first job was probably a bit tricker, but in hindsight I've had an additional 3/4 years earning good wages than those people who did do the degrees. I'm not strongly opinionated as to whether they're worthwhile or not, but I don't believe I've been negatively impacted by it.

I have thought a few times that the traditional style of education simply isn't applicable to some people; I was never very good at school, but flourished once I learnt how to teach myself what I wanted to learn.
> being in business 3+ years

And if you're been in business for 3+ years, but change direction (like from consulting to products as many in the industry do), are you considered a startup again?
degree in math with my honors project in AI and 3d graphics - was pretty damn close to a degree in CompSci.. was never really a problem except perhaps the occasional brain dead HR filter that doesn't deserve to work (EDIT: by which i mean 'i deserve to work' they don't deserve to hire me)
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A lot of us work from home and could use a coding buddy[0] to discuss code or bounce off (startup) ideas.

There is already a "HN proxy desk neighbour list"[1] which shares the same objective but it is quite outdated and I don't think it makes much sense to keep this on Google Docs since it is likely to become outdated after a few weeks as well.

I suggest we keep a similar format here:

Location:
Contact info:
Good time to talk:
Things I know:
Note:

[0] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/02/whos-your-coding-buddy.html

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ao3RpZe396VZdEZnZXBVdXVCSFNnZmV1S1BLY2N4VEE&authkey=CIqAl7wO
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A better analogy would be adding nitrous oxide , if you added high octane fuel to a car that uses regular results in less power.
SIGGRAPH 1991 and 2006 featured demos of the ~3000 member audience playing Pong. Each half of the room controlled their paddle by holding up colored wands to vote up or down. I think the 2006 show also had the audience pilot a flight simulator. It was amazing at how quickly the audience got really good at the games!

Here are some photos. I saw a video somewhere, but I can't find it now.

http://stage.itp.nyu.edu/history/timeline/cinematrix.html

http://www.4colorrebellion.com/archives/2006/08/03/siggraph-...
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