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I've been using this online training for long time already. I would say it's not only for beginners but also for intermediate levels too. It covers many different guitar styles.
During this long time I've seen how the page positively evolved and I'm happy to see how one person (justin) which is doing a superb job in giving those lessons for free is getting more and more attention. This is in my opinion a good example of how perseverance, free content and love for what you do can at then end pay back with a very good reputation from users and I guess good money with the selling of same free online content but as DVDs,books, etc
I am taken by surprise that I am the only one so far it seems, in this topic and the one from nine days ago, that uses Programmer's Notepad.

http://www.pnotepad.org/

I always figured it was fairly popular. Many compare it to Notepad++, which has many points here but I have never used.

Therefore I will check out Notepad++, though I urge Notepad++ users to check out Programmer's Notepad!
I was frustrated by the new word choices popping up after quitting, actually. I had a pretty awesome drawing, the app crashed, and the new choices were pretty lame.

Minor quibble, I know, but it does seem odd that you get new choices just by quitting when they really want you to pay for them.
It read to me as a bit of both. He had reservations (who wouldn't) but he'd also already had the taste for working for himself.

So he's simultaneously got a reminder that his own work is important to him, a bit of breathing room from his chunk of the buyout and an opportunity to start off with a bit of a "bang" PR-wise.

What entrepreneur would pass up on that?
Site back up after a hefty Linode upgrade, thanks for your patience y'all.
Memepool is back, after 4yr hiatus
Thanks for posting, back up now ;-)
I thought users had to buy buttons for $1. That is what it said in the article...

But the article was poorly written, so I am not sure if I was missing something.
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Somewhat language dependent. IntelliJ IDEA for Java stuff. Vim for everything else.
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My two: Bluefish(on Ubuntu) and Textpad(on Windows) never seem to show up on these lists.
Thanks guys, this kind of discussion is why I open HN every day for the past few years.
The video worked for me in FF but not Chrome on Mac.
Did anyone figure out how to get to the mario pipe, and what the ??? quest is?
>>At this point, I get the nasty feeling that many people who preach "don't ever rewrite" mantra are the people who have produced large volumes of code in the past, but consider themselves too "senior" to maintain it now. The common rhetoric regarding "young/junior programmers" only confirms that notion.<<

I imagine the real reason is because the senior people have been burned to no end by trying to rewrite code they themselves did not understand.
It's not that government-enforced monopolies on copying or using certain pieces of information are never justified, just that they aren't property.

Your right to drive as indicated by a driving licence is not 'property', your planning permission for a building is not 'property', your FCC permission to use a particular part of the EM spectrum is not 'property'. And your right to make copies of a particular piece of information isn't 'property' either. These are all abstract legal rights/privileges.

If you drive without a licence, broadcast in a band reserved for someone else, or copy a copyrighted work, then you are 'driving without a licence', 'breaking FCC regulations', and 'infringing copyright', respectively. Calling any of those things stealing is inaccurate, which is the kind of mistake you end up making if you think of them as property.
Cool. One of my last big projects was to build an MMO on the web. No flash, and we used Cometd: http://play.parallelkingdom.com/, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lindbaaodgocnekppl...
Awwwwwww yeah!
Mozilla are trying to push their BrowserID on the world though. A fairly popular (among devs) technological demo seems like the right place to start that; it'd show us how easy it is for users to use, and how simple it is to integrate. Not using it is a wasted opportunity.
I think this will become a more and more common problem, especially in our field. Things move so fast that if you're just trying to keep up, you'll soon find yourself the most knowledgeable on the subject in your local area. This is great if you want to sound impressive, but not so great if you're trying to learn.

The best option is of course to find a Kimo. Failing that, getting really good at interacting with people online might be the best option; if you're learning something independently, you're probably learning it online, and if you're learning it online, then other learners(however few) are only a click away.
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Ugh, this guy got APNS wrong. An app never needs to register a device with Apple. It's not Apple who sends something, it's still the developer via APNS.
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Here is a video about it from this years Pycon.

http://youtu.be/9G6-GksU7Ko
I dunno, this is better (and more fun) than any Flash based browser MMO I've played. Also didn't bug me about buying coins in their store or some Zynga-like upsell.
It could be...

The application basically allows you to enter contracts you have - for example software licenses or contracts with suppliers and as those contracts change over time (ammendments and addendums), and contract terms come and go, the application will send alerts for when things need to get done. It also handles terms that automatically roll over etc and has quite a comprehensive import tool to allow you to import existing contract data into the system.

It was primarily design for companies that have many contracts with suppliers, re-sellers and licenses etc.

Let me know if you want more information. I really dont have any plans for the application, so I am just seeing if anybody else might find it useful, or is looking for something similar.
While this is an interesting post, it was written and based on conclusions from 2007 - many of which are addressed in better kernel defaults, included in smarter tunables, and better mount options.
Power Supply
150W
Dimensions
11.1" x 11.02" x 3.74"
Weight
10 lbs.

This isn't even in the same category in my opinion. Power, Dimensions and Weight are huge compared to the Pi. So to answer your question, it's a 'No' for me.
Textpad wasn’t bad 8 or so years ago, but it’s unfit for purpose these days due to its inability to handle Unicode. You’ve actually got to be quite careful with it, as it’ll mangle text you load and save.
Excuse me. But _real_ programmers use butterflies.
But the original owner still wants to receive push, so you shouldn't unregister. This isn't apple's problem, this is that the twitter app's server doesn't know they logged out and continues to send messages to the phone.
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No Rubymine? Hands down the best Ruby/Rails IDE out there.
Why videos go viral
You != Zynga.

With less than 24 hours to decide -- a timeframe set by Zynga -- what exactly is he supposed to decide on beyond his impressions at the negotiations' start?

And he went out of his way to _not_ slander Zynga. He didn't claim to be poorly treated, makes no complaint about Zynga pursuing its own interests. He mentions his respect for a number of your colleagues. He calls the company "evil" but so carefully defines the term that it's clear he means "unsustainable" and "short term cash flow maximizing". You don't agree and that's what makes a market.

You want a chance to bridge the gap between your understanding and his? Get on the horn to Corporate, get a carve-out for Connectrode, then call him up and make him an offer, same terms as Monday but without the crazy deadline.
Maintaining a civil discussion is one thing. Literally silencing and erasing opinions we do not agree with is completely different.

Does anyone actually believes this is the approach we should be taking?
It's back to Reddit for you two.
I'm sure NASA just invent important sounding work so they can play with rockets.

...do the Jet Streams 'really' need monitoring? they have probably been doing fine for years!
I think he's pretty clever for using the very tiny window of opportunity to gather some publicity for himself. Remember, the guy just lost his job.
First ??? quest: Get an orange potion (to get the Firefox costume)

Second ??? quest: Enter a portal. I found one to the east-southeast to the starting point.

Still trying to figure out the last one.
Upvoted you despite the slightly obfuscated phrasing, because it's essentially true. This turned into a bikeshedding discussion on bikeshedding the moment lucisferre misrepresented his own definition of bikeshedding as the canonical definition.
I skipped the second part of my degree (I have an Associates) instead I went and got a job, I moved from the junior designer to the manager within less than a year (Managing people who had been there for 15+ years) and Art Director within two years where I ended up hiring an employee who had spent those two years in "The same program" that I would have been had I not ignored the "speed limit" to this day that employee is still just "a designer".

Remember, you make your own rules in life. Walls only exist in your head.
It's really hard for me to know what was just dumb luck and what was great strategy.

For example, I'm tempted to give this bit of advice:

Think small. Don't think about getting rich. Just think what you can do for someone right now that they'll be happy to pay you for. Then when you've found it, think of how to do it for as many people as possible.

... but is that actually good advice? Or do I just think that's the strategy that made me rich, when actually it's something else entirely, and I somehow got successful despite my stupid approach?

That said, here's something that I know is quite solid:

The biggest change in my attitude towards money came from my girlfriend's hippie parents. She grew up on a commune in Vermont. No TV, no nothing. Her parents just did random odd jobs - like photography and sewing - but kept their cost of living so low that it was enough to sustain them to this day. Then they put their daughter through fancy ivy-league universities on scholarships and such.

By lowering your cost of living so low that you can do just a few hours of work per month to pay your expenses, then it frees you up to turn your attention to doing things that make you happy, or perhaps building things that will make you much more money in the long run. Things that most people don't have the time to do because they're too busy on the rat-race, doing some job they hate, because they need to support their expensive cost of living.

Point being: once you realize how cheaply you can live, you get a real secure feeling of financial abundance.

Then keep improving your hustle, and doing whatever it takes to make money doing what you love, and the security/abundance mixes with fun, for a damn good combination.

(I hope this helps.)
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hi,

this is a website to meet native speakers. It is free of charge, you only have to sign up and search for a language partner, or be contacted. You choose whether yo want to meet face to face, on our site, etc...It sounds interesting, right?
I've always wondered - what is so important about modelines? I use both vim and ST2, and I've heard lots of people talking about modelines, but never really grokked what they were used for. Can you give me an example?
There's a few, One is "for science" find the portals and get the cake.

The other is a maze to a rickroll, and then there's a fox potion that turns you into a firefox that makes you invincible for a short time.
It looks more like it was lottery than anything else. If you clicked on it at the right time and got lucky in a 30 minute window. I have been to a number of them since I went to the first one (part of the android challenge before there was an android phone) I have really enjoy the conference every time I have gone. This year I mainly wanted to get some time in with the Go group and reconnecting with friends I have made over the years. Look like time to start looking for another conference with lots of web startup. Anything going on in the UK?
Do you have any recommended books/resources on the last 4? Particularly Nginx though.

I like that you have everything planned out to be multi-lingual from the start on your projects. I remember reading your uses.this interview a while back and you talked about using wendlin/learning chinese. Are you still doing that, if so, how's that going?
I know I could just hire someone else to make them, but the joy (to me) is in the process, not the goal. I want to learn these programming techniques so well that I can quickly create all my future ideas, too.

Very interesting for me to read this now. My wife is pushing me to outsource the development of an idea that I've been talking about raising from a demo to a real site, because I'm taking my sweet time (learning Python, Flask et al). I'm not making efforts to find someone to outsource it, but instead I'm still trying to learn what I need to to get it up the ground. (just don't tell my wife)

"the joy is in the process, not the goal"… I'll have to keep that in mind.
> Yep, that's at least one genetic advantage you have on most of us.

I think I kind of have the same problem as you do: not enough/too much sleep that messes up my day. But is this "genetic" like you saying? I don't think so. Can you point to any directions where to read about this, or at least, how to get better on sleeping enough hours?

Thnx.
> By subscription feed, do you mean support for the enterprise product or for this new offering? I

Yes

> And is your problem with the quantity of dollars, or with the fact that they charge at all?

Quantity, in particular how much they charge per server. I don't think it would be fair for basho for me to spout specifics, but as late of last year it seemed rather exorbitant especially for an open source product.

This is the main reason my large employer didn't even bother to seriously look at what their products had to offer. Both 10gen (Mongodb) and one of the companies offering Cassandra support contracts were a lot more reasonable.
Yes I've had to sign an NDA before an interview at a games company as they wanted to discuss their new project during the interview.
Notepad++ is awesome. I'm just sick of getting corrupt settings. My only gripe is the plugins could have better shortcut/toolbar integration
On a side note regarding askolo:

I'm not so sure if the name is perfectly chosen. You know that olo is ASCII art for a penis and balls?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=olo

This reminds me of the story when VW advertised their Golf GTI with "Turbo Cojones". Somehow, the marketing department (in Germany?) obviously didn't realize the meaning of "cojones".

edit: typo
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Wow, SublimeText has overtaken Textmate in Hacker News usage. I'm amazed by this.

I'm somebody that switched by the way, but I thought I was in the overwhelming minority.
really depends on what OS you prefer... For MacOS, Sublime Text is the best one per my understanding.
This demo is really for HTML5, not for BrowserID. BrowserID might add an unrefined and unnecessary hurdle to the game. Then all the other platform dev's and press will say silly things like HTML5 requires BrowserID or something.
Curious: are you involved with Walmart in the creation of the problem?

If so, are you guys using that RFID system that was being used for keeping tabs on stock levels at all times?
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Thanks! Yeah, we were wondering the same thing - maybe this piece of pie just isn't big enough for them.

We created it to solve the issues we wanted to fix and we think there are many others out there like us.

http://blog.thevideosdb.com/how-thevideosdb-came-to-be/
Worked in Chrome for me. Cool story.
I've read "Think and Grow Rich" 5+ times.. in print great book. I make sure to listen to an audio copy at least once every six months to keep it fresh in my mind.
Gauss? Pascal? Descartes? Russell? Fermat? Knuth?

You probably need to take a survey.
I'm not sure if this is exactly what you would be looking for, but this popped up on Kickstarter a while ago and it's a good start.

Dash: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/devium/dash-the-smart-ph...
And this is why people reinvent the wheel. If you disagree with the core teams decision here, you are at an impasse. So, you fork and move on. Or, you think about it, and decide to create your own framework that will be like Rails, but do things the way you want to do them, including making xhr? work the way you think it should.

Reinventing the wheel gets a bad wrap. People suggest you should contribute to existing projects. The problem is when that existing project's direction diverges from your needs. Reinventing the wheel is part of the power of open source.

On a side note, considering the sheer number of types of wheels, "reinventing the wheel" comes across as a bit odd.
Absolutely. We are working on making users stories more visible.
And things are getting worse by the year! The registration lottery system they did was frustrating but I see no other way of handling it. But they definitely need to rethink the swag thing, or I/O will become irrelevant soon (if not already so).
It's more the mindset I'm concerned with. An extrinsic outcome oriented mindset leads to a lot of stress. Whenever I've set demanding performance goals for myself within a short time frame like write 10 blog posts a month or something similar, I don't enjoy the process and I usually don't end up writing all 10.

On the other hand, if I say my goal is to get in the habit of writing one sentence everyday, the end result is much better and I'm less stressed about it.

I think process oriented goals can actually end up being more productive than outcome oriented goals.
Oh, come on now. A little bit of fun is no good? ;)

By the way, 'back to reddit' doesn't quite make sense with me... I've been here three times as long.

These polls pop up every week or three. The distribution is usually pretty much the same. The comment threads are usually the same. The inevitable vi/emacs war breaks out.

Might as well have some fun with the monotony.
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You send drawing 1 to player B. They watch it being drawn and guess. They send you drawing 2. When you open your app you see drawing 1 happen again and player B making their guess. You can skip that. Then you're shown drawing 2 and can make your guess.

You can "pass" during drawing 2, but that ends the game (streak) between you and player 2.

And though the streak doesn't really matter, it means that, no, you can't really 'skip' watching the other player's drawing stroke-by-stroke. You can only choose to stop playing.
I was wondering if that was a re-incarnation of "Programmer's File Editor" (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/steveb/cpaap/pfe/) which I used years ago. After that stopped updating, I switched to Context (http://www.contexteditor.org/), which also stopped updating and will probably stay that way until it's re-written. Context is still my favorite, but has problems in Windows 7, and Notepad++ is almost as good without the problems.
ABSOLUTELY WITHOUT A DOUBT, choose Path B.

Life is f'ing short! When you're old and looking back on your life, you'll mostly remember the changes, the big events. These big changes are the hooks you hang your memories on.

You'll always remember that 2012 is the year you chose Plan B. You'll remember this big change in your life, and all the other new experiences it's going to create.

This is part of living a full life! This is crucial!

14 years is plenty of time on Path A. You got the benefits out of it. You learned your lessons. You've been there, done that. Time to go!

I can't emphasize this enough. I think it's SO important.

Every time I've made a major change in my life, it's always turned out for the better. Sometimes I even thought they were failures, in the moment - (divorce, selling my company, etc) - but they always turned out wonderful.
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most people don't believe that growing up in a tough neighborhood makes it ok to steal, even if it does give that act context.

So, when it's stealing or starving, and I'm offered a job at Cash4Gold, should I reject it?
The last one is Rickroll'd, you meet Rick Astley in one of the caves.
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I think you may have underestimated the complexity of Dwarf Fortress. It's the most complex single player game I've ever played
Wow this is pretty cool. But flash could do this years ago :)
Great summary! I added it
No trader is doing 29,000 trades a second.

BATS is an exchange like NASDAQ. They're facilitating and executing trades for their clients. NASDAQ handled 70k per second in 2008, and could handle almost 4 times that load(http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0112/056.html).

HFT has nothing to do with this.
The point about dumb questions feels cliche to me. I ask my advisors (what I think are) smart questions that sometimes turn out to be dumb. Project yourself as an intelligent, confident person if you want to be judged as such (you do) and remember that your advisors are really busy too so don't waste their time!
Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=970945
Ok folks, this is pretty cool stuff and something that you might want to note in your notebook.

Neutrons come from nuclear events, not chemical events. We know that lightning can produce Anti-matter so now we have a hint that it fissions atoms as well.

It really does feel like we're on the cusp of some new deeper understandings of how particles hold together, and can be ripped apart. This understanding will drive a lot of change, especially if it opens up new options for energy production. Sadly not all of those will be good changes but in general it should be a net benefit.
I'm afraid I still can't imagine a large system that could not conceivably be divided into small, independent components.

Well, examine some large systems then, and see whether you can fare better.

Depends on what you describe as independent components. The 200LOC thing is probably also comprised of independent components. As in NGINX that somebody mentions elsewhere. That doesn't mean those independent components don't have to work together and a change in one doesn't affect the other.

Consider a plugin host and a plugin. They are independent, alright, but the plugin takes advantage of certain things the host offers. If you change the host in those areas, you'll have to change the plugins too. Components only provide independency until the place where they meet each other, i.e. the "joins". (Even in a functional language, a pure function only provides independency until the point you call it --there you have to adhere to its interface).