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MacBeath, where he gets his hardwood, is making an effort on this (I was over there a few weeks ago to buy wood and brought it up).
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It is one thing to intellectually know something, and it is quite another thing again to experience it. And it is something all together different to get on with doing what needs doing despite how one feels.

Personally speaking I take quite a lot of pride in failing and failing fast. I believe that this is how we iterate our way to success and indeed learn. Never the less, the sting of failure is never pleasant, and the emotional letdown is very real, as can be the depression that sometimes follows.
I've seen estimates ranging from 15% more to 30% more. It depends on the lifestyle I guess. Also housing is a big chunk of the difference.

Finally there's the CA income tax.
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Here's another use case perspective: consider the webcomic. There's a case where you're not searching for something—that is, every single "page" is possibly valuable content—but there's still hundreds, potentially thousands of pages to display.

The problem comes in when someone is looking for that one comic they saw a few years ago. Unlike xkcd, this comic hasn't implemented full-text search yet, so if they can't do a manual comparison sort, they have to go over every comic. What's a natural way to do this?

Still new to web development and user interface design in general; this is probably a different problem altogether.
It's hard to see how the linked TechCrunch article and this article:

http://www.startupsmart.com.au/cash-flow/99dresses-shuts-dow...

... can both possibly refer to the same company. At the very least, the prior shut-down of 99dresses has been given a quite a thick layer of spin.
Oh we could totally do that. One color for roads, one for bars, one for background. We could probably do Minard's Napoleon's March map too (minus the labels) just for fun. http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters
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"I'm afraid that it won't work." I know this may sound silly, but I honestly just realized how wrong that statement is. I have actually used it to dismiss a potential solution...
This article hit home as someone in a similar position, as a student. Always a good kick in the rear. Thanks.
I don't see them disagreeing. They're both saying "here are some issues I see with the Apple/Developer relationship".
Great point. "This is correct for the reasons stated" comments are almost as annoying / spammy as the shallow negative comments, which makes it a tougher problem to solve.
I was surprised also. mysqldb and mysql-python don't seem to support it. If you know of a mysql module for P3, please let me know.
Good post--I'm in the midst of doing a PhD on the side while working, and I've noticed that "I'm afraid it won't work" behavior in myself during both my research and working on hard problems in my day job. Glad to know I'm not alone!
Personally, I think you can do all your sales from one location to start off. It's great to send people to location, but you might not have the cash to do that. A lot of this really depends on what you are selling and for how much.

If you find people that love your product and have free time... get them selling! I would have no hard feelings if they can't sell anything. Just make sure they can clearly articulate your product so they don't harm your businesses reputation. As long as they believe they can make money and ideally they really believe in your product and they are good let them loose!

You might even consider having someone generate the leads and get the calls set up. You take over on the actual sales aspects and if you make the sale they get their commission.

Good Luck on the launch!
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Per Vices is every geeks dream but how on are they going to get past FCC regulations?
Cancun is a "designed" city and the core districts are laid out inspired in Mayan hieroglyphs. This makes terrible urbanism but some pretty sweet woodcut maps. http://woodcutmaps.com/11254
For those of you who like to poke fun at Portland...
He was being smart-alecky. He feels very strongly in one direction about a concept that means "divide or cause to divide into two sharply contrasting groups or sets of opinions or beliefs."
The problem isn't really the term "eventual coincistency" but rather neglecting to define "sufficient time", which needs to be done case-by-case. Something like "ram size divided by the slowest connection between servers, plus 40% margin". That gives you a useful and predictable model that even handles partitions (treat as speed 0).
I am so impressed with icracked and their 2 awesome business models. Onsite Technicians and repair yourself tool kits. This is a real business. Hope they succeed big time.
Obviously not, it's near impossible to get into a discussion about Alan Turing without bringing up the way he was treated. However British money already features scientists (Turing, if selected, will replace Darwin) and this has far more to do with recognizing Turing's accomplishments than his treatment.

There are many people who think that it's a good idea to feature scientists on money and making that suggestion for US money isn't in anyway taking Turing's treatment lightly.
Is this a list of issues the author had with Microsoft or am I reading too much into this?
Well, examine some large systems then, and see whether you can fare better.

Examining very large codebases takes time, so this is easier said than done! I have worked with several large projects, but all of them would have been better factored out into smaller services.

Components only provide independency until the place where they meet each other, i.e. the "joins".

I don't think that's true. Two components can share the same contract, but still not be dependent on one another.

For example, the Unix applications "wc" and "grep" have no dependency on one another, but they can be piped together because they share the same STDIN/STDOUT interface.

Similarly, the functions "+" and "*" can be used together because they have compatible type signatures, but this does not mean they are not independent.
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This is a total guess - but if you've been at G for 5 years, Startup #2 sounds like a smoother transition. It's a larger organization, it will probably operate more like what you're used to. It sounds like both of these are good opportunities, and they both care about you joining.

Carefully examine the real reason why you're leaving the comfy confines of G - that should push you closer to one or the other. Go with your gut.
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Another problem with endless scrolling: It often results in very small scroll bars which can be hard to use.
For those who don't remember Donda, it was Kanye West's media company, born from a fever dream, set out to change the world with the help of "doctors, lawyers, teachers, tech guys, app guys, and nutritionists".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2012/jan/06/ka...
https://github.com/hhuuggoo/ZmqWebBridge is my project which does something similar

https://github.com/progrium/nullmq is another which is more full featured but I haven't had a chance to look at it yet.
I noticed this psychological phenomena in myself some years back, and have since kept many goals to myself. It definitely helps me to stay motivated to get it to a "completion" state, when I can tell people about it.
For those wanting to see an interesting approach to solving this problem (not written by me): http://tumbledry.org/2011/05/12/screw_hashbangs_building

Associated HN discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2592741
And what's so cool about AnyVivo?
seems like this is just a whois lookup? am i missing something?
I use LiveMesh too, and I like it. One of the things that I like about it is that it doesn't follow symlinks. I really wish one of these sync services (maybe the upcoming Gdrive?) would treat symlinks properly. I.e., sync them opaquely rather than transparently.

In the meantime, I use scripts to sync my symlinks out of band. The only service I can do this with is LiveMesh, though, since at least it is nice enough to just ignore the symlinks, rather than do the wrong thing with them.
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It depends on which 'hacker' you mean. The 'Hacker News' hacker or 'the movie Hackers' hacker? Though I bet you could shoe-horn reverse engineering into both without any trouble. That's a big part of the problem. People pick which part of the 'hacker' label they want to apply to themselves while discarding the undesirable parts. The end result is several related terms and multiple definitions, often overlapping or contradicting.
So you want to crowdsource your design project? Don't. Use Dribbble instead.
You can also make yourself permanently invincible, attack 10 times per second, and teleport around, if you get a reference to some of the internal variables. I actually found it quite difficult to get that reference since the project uses requireJS and doesn't leave any global/window references. As far as I can tell, the only way is to pause in the debugger, which is much more tamper resistant than I expected it to be.
As a former woodworker, I thought that might be the case. :)

There's also a lot to be said for pricing simplicity, though. You might consider just having a "premium woods" option that gives you access to the high end veneers, rather than passing costs directly along. If you make it more complicated, you'll also cause people to do a bunch of re-renders, which may wind up costing you more (and causing people to get bored and give up).

I don't envy you the task of working with fraction-of-an-inch wide irregular-edged burl veneer strips!
I think that, like many disagreements, this is just a question of semantics. If your definition of "burnout" is "feeling unmotivated after playing video games for a while," that's a bit different from and calls for a different response than the kind of burnout that requires a shrink.
Normally I shy away from "end of" or "death of" posts, but this makes sense. Pagination evolved from people having 56k modems and it taking two minutes to load a page. Add some images in, and you're going to be there a while.

I really like the idea of intelligent search and only showing relevant content vs just showing everything on the page and hoping people will find it. It seems so obvious now, but the status quo is so ingrained in us. Sometimes I do want to see the 873rd image, sometimes it's just the one I'm looking for, but burried under endless pages of other images. Having some sort of search (either tagging, date, or text) can really make this process easier for users.
I despise endless pagination. I do most of my browsing on mobile devices these days, and endless pagination can quickly overload the measly RAM constraints on my iPad and iPhone resulting in a crash.
I have to agree with this. I'm also in math grad school after numerous startups. The hardest part about transitioning from math undergrad to graduate school is that you know assign problems in undergrad have a solution, you just have to go out and find it. Research problems just might not have a solution in reach of existing technology.

However, I find the difficulty and uncertainty of research mathematics much worse than anything I encountered even in research-heavy startups. Depends on what you're working on, I guess.
Everyone values their privacy.

You think Google feels any pressure from blog comments like that? Well you're wrong. It's pointless bickering - I've always disliked that about reading tech news. People who have no idea how Google even operates and the technology behind the products take for granted and who could never even write a solid business plan seem to love complaining about inane details and playing victim. I'm tired of reading it. Until you can prove Google is doing something wrong or unethical, take your free service and stop complaining. Or switch to another.

If you have criticism that can improve the product, that's different. But these are just childish whines that don't accomplish anything. If Google is overstepping some privacy line, prove it and get them some bad press, like what recently happened with Path mining peoples' contacts. But Google are not malicious predators, and nobody is forcing anybody to use their products, so people need to stop being so melodramatic.
Jeff mentioned this in the article, but it really forces you to rethink your footer if you put important links there.
I'm really interested in hearing more about your process. See you at WhereCamp.
How soon before this trend starts to wind down?

How long before computer programming skills become as everyday as basic vehicle repair knowledge?

I guess its not really the same thing, because computer programs aren't as homogeneous as car guts (although I wouldn't really know) and cars aren't being engineered in repair shops. But if you look at common frameworks like Rails or plain HTML or WordPress then you could almost think of those areas as being like their own mechanical specialties.

Point being there are a lot of relatively high-tech devices that we maintain where those careers aren't considered particularly prestigious, and I wonder if at some point software development will be a little more like that.

I mean in the first few decades of the development of motor vehicles (I know, computer programs aren't combustion engines, they are much more varied and complex than that) there was a lot of invention and innovation and those people were probably considered to have fairly elite skills and knowledge.
I think that the solution is right there in your question — full-text search. xkcd takes this to an extreme perhaps, but even just transcribing the text in each comic ought to be enough to make it decently searchable. That and titles. I can usually get to an xkcd via the title or some words similar to the title which are usually in the comic itself. This may not work for comics which tend to be visual gags though.

If it is too much of a pain to manually transcribe the text, perhaps using OCR?
Are there copyright issues with using Google's maps?
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http://whodat.biz/#google.com ; interesting.
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This is probably the most interesting company I have read about on this site. The love using software to make something physical. I will definitely consider a purchase in the future.
19/20 ... what is the unknown ????? 20th one...anyone able to find?
"Pagination is also friction. Ever been on a forum where you wished like hell the other people responding to the thread had read all four pages of it before typing their response?"

I mostly agree with wumpus here as this relates to search results, but it is interesting that forums are brought into it because forums (generally the smaller, community type forums with long-tail discussions as opposed to reddit or even HN where discussions are generally about 24 hours max and then dropped) are the one place I absolutely love pagination.

The unfolding discussion of a particular thread tends to have a timeline in my brain that maps to the pagination of the thread. eg. Oh, subtopic XYZ, that first came up at about page 5... lemme jump over there and refresh my mind on how that came up.

Taking away pagination in forums would be a net negative for me, much like code folding is a net negative for me (I tend to have a map of the code in my mind that is impossible to keep if the code is folded in some random configuration).

Granted, this is subjective and entirely personal, so I'm not saying he's wrong (or that code folding is wrong for everyone), just that getting rid of pagination is not necessarily great for all people in all situations.
Compatibility or bug fixes aren't free for all users because just like features, the developer had to spend time building them and needs to get paid for that time.
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I've been wanting to play around with "scrolling pagination" as opposed to an "endless pagination." Where items are removed from the top of the list as they are added to the bottom, so you have a low-memory version of endless pagination.

Curious how much havoc that would wreck on the scrollbar & swipe scrolling on mobile.
This is some strange joke.. right?
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I really appreciate your writing, TED talks, ideas, and the humble and positive way in which you present your work.

I think one of the problems I struggled with the most with this type of thinking is feeling like I'm being conceited or thinking that "I'm special" when I try to remove speed limits. I've always learned a lot of things fairly fast but I think I limited myself by subconsciously not wanting to feel better than other people.
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That's a cool idea. If I recall correctly, that's how table views work in iOS.
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I don't get it, I go to Google Play on my desktop Chrome browser and instead of the Chrome Web Store, I am sent to an Android app store. It makes no sense to me.
People buy a lot of pets, Amazon won't touch them (one of the few legal areas of commerce which Amazon can't dominate; guns are another...).

They've been making a lot of money (and 50-60% margin) in the past few weeks selling jellyfish, which I didn't realize was even possible to keep as a pet. Presumably as they move into other more interesting pets, they will make more money.
Tried posting this comment to your page, but I think the cron job listening to the logfile may have died

I do something like that for an internal brand safety product I created for the company I work for - it is surprisingly small and scales ridiculously well. Using zmq (ahem, now known as crossroadsio due to stupid trademark issues), the loglines are then processed asynchronously. I use a python module called apachelog to process the log lines.

Using the-formerly-known-as-zmq async processing, we can actually scale it up massively (to the point where between-machine latency is the cause of slowdown)

In your case I think you can put that + websockets to good use - so users get instant feedback while you rewrite the html in the background
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Started out thinking that this was more parquetry than what I imagine is called 'woodcut'. Turns out it's probably marquetry instead. All from Wikipedia:

"Parquetry is a geometric mosaic of wood pieces used for decorative effect."

"The use of curved and natural shapes constitutes marquetry rather than parquetry."

"Marquetry (also spelled as marqueterie) is the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns, designs or pictures."

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

And, so I learned something new.
Software Defined Radios have been sold for a while -- just not so cheaply, and as easy to use. (I think the Ettus USRPs have been around for a while; first as kits and now as assembled devices; SDR itself has been built into a lot of shipping products).

The FCC actually came out with revised regulations in 2005 and 2007 to make SDR easier to approve, and to allow open source software for them. I think there are different regimes for test equipment vs. type-approved consumer devices.
One of the things that always killed me about the Forrst experience was that sure, it had great pagination, but it was only one particular page/view. If you were navigating snaps or code posts individually you were stuck with manually clicking next and previous buttons like the good old days. It's one thing to come up with cool techniques, it's a whole new bag to apply it effectively.
Non sequitor. The comment thread you're on argues that developers on Apple's Mac platform are sharecroppers. Atwood may well think that (it's not totally clear to me), but Shipley clearly does not: he is making more money after adopting the App Store than he was before it, and is content with the control/promotion tradeoff. He says so explicitly in the article we're commenting on.
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Probably because he knows the end is coming quicker than he said in the interview.
If the vast majority of your market is upgrading, and the customers for your new product, are by and large the same as the customers for your previous product, then you can simply offer the upgrade price to everyone, without loss of revenue. Indeed, you make it easier for new customers to come on board - so, best of both worlds.

I'm not sure what's wrong with offering major new versions of your product at the upgrade price to everyone (new and existing users alike). Sounds perfectly sustainable.
Yes, you missed the message he was trying to communicate. He was being sarcastic.

Yes, you are likely to lose friends if you insist on debating their religious beliefs as if they were favorite programming languages. You do not endear yourself to them when you refer to religion as a "hack", in either common definition of the term.

The best way not to "deal" with this problem is to avoid it. Hence: bad topic for a message board debate.

If you feel any further urge to discuss this issue with me, and aren't just trying to score message board points about religion, my contact info is in my profile and you can feel free to ping me about this. I've invited you to talk to me about religion; feel free to take me up on it. Know that your parent comment is light grey because Patrick's response was intended to communicate almost the opposite of that invitation.
First, I wasn't discriminating I was posing an open ended question. Secondly, it seems as though you suggested gen x would be more suitable than a programmer fresh out of school.
http://www.cio.com/article/679004/Gen_Y_vs._Gen_X_Who_Causes...
I can't agree more about code folding. The shape of the code lets me use visual patterns instead of actually thinking about the parse tree
And on that note, allow me to encourage you to consider the copyright issues and the possibility of using OpenStreetMap instead.

Edit: looks like another comment has since been posted which talked about 'working on an OSM render path', there you go
The worst thing you can do if you implement infinite scroll?: Put key navigation links in your footer.

Facebook does this right now and it seriously pisses me off. Though in Facebook's case they do eventually stop loading more updates so I can click on something in the footer, but other sites definitely don't.

Please don't do this.
"... there is no such thing for some of those tropical hardwoods. On the plus side, veneer is very thin... ..."

You may be right. Hard woods are difficult to source but not impossible. I'm thinking of Maton, a guitar manufacturer not far from where I live in Melbourne who source their tonewood with costs of gathering rare timbers in mind ~ http://www.maton.com.au/main/timbers.html
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I'm going to have to agree. Another problem with endless pagination is that it makes it difficult for me to refer to content.

For example: "Look at the blue shirt on page 5" rather than "Look at the blue shirt visible after about 30 seconds of scrolling down"

Also, when the page is reloaded, I have to scroll all the way down to where I was (which may take longer than I want it to because the page needs to load everything before my target).