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The Symantec (formerly Central Point) offices in Beaverton, Oregon, for one. It's been years since I've seen the inside of it, but at least into the early 00s, even low-seniority QA guys had private offices.

Things are relatively cheap when you don't try to locate them right in the middle of an overcrowded city.
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Well, in that case, you might want to chalk it up to lesson learnt this time.

However, you might want to use this as a opening point for discussion with your client should something similar happen in the future. It is your responsibility to set expectations but if the client merely expects you to work for free, I would say then you know what you need to do...
If you don't mind sharing, what car were you looking at?
April Fools Day is becoming a 3 day holiday this year.
Because the author of the article has done freelance work for Hipmunk (as well as MileWise, Bushido, and Sharypic - listed at the bottom of the article). I like Hipmunk, but the mention is nothing more than self promotion.
I use SizeUp for this.

http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/

you can set the keyboard shortcut to maximize the window, or split it left/right like you can in Windows 7. The trial is pretty good, you get a windows to click away everytime the app starts but that's usually it.
Not necessarily. But people who look good benefit from the halo effect. So they get the trait of trustworthiness attributed to them.
I like the idea but it seems like it works better in theory. Unless someone can really streamline the entire process (sharing, security, hardware upgrading etc) it seems ambitious that millions of people would want that kind of responsibility.
Prozone (http://www.prozonesports.com/index.html) is a big factor as well. (And as much as I love Football Manager, I'm dubious of its value as a scouting tool. It seems more a compilation of conventional wisdom, and is just plain wrong often enough that it's hard to manage any team you follow or know well in real life.)
There certainly are varying definitions of "object-oriented"-ness, just contrast C++ and Smalltalk!
Moving to sf / palo alto for startup - advice?
Hello!

My team is finally making the jump from our full time jobs and planning to move to the bay area for a number of reasons. I've spent 2 summers in palo alto, so I'm somewhat familiar with the area but also wanted to hear you all's advice.

1) Where is most of the startup action? Events, 'startup-populated' coffee shops, investors, etc. SF side? PA side? Mountain View, etc?

2) Besides incubators for funding, are there any known programs to provide simple housing?

3) Are there any organizations that hook up startups with each other to rent out larger houses to save costs (5+ bedrooms, etc.)?

4) Any general tips on housing in the area?

Many thanks!
Life is toxic. You'll eventually die of it.

Really, if you remove everything harmful to health from you life (including everything related to a computer), you'd probably die of boredom, depression and frustration real fast.
That's true it's just a demo but it should be clear that this is not a fault of using a browser&javascript.
You may consider applying to http://www.JoinAStartup.org They are looking for ideas worth building. Still, your idea is very primitive and needs to be refined before even they would accept you :/
You are right, and there are many ways in which the world has objectively shown uninterrupted progress throughout history. Murder/violence have apparently been steadily decreasing since biblical times[1]. The same probably goes for other things, like prejudice and freedom of expression.

Also there is the important point that problems like environmental harm seem more acute now only because we are more aware of them. During the industrial revolution, the extent of the harm caused by the use of fossil fuels wasn't a consideration to anyone because we couldn't even conceive what it would mean. Ignorance is bliss.

Unfortunately, all of this is cold comfort when you have dark thoughts of widespread conflict over fresh water in your future.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violen...
This happened to me, when Google expanded their list of products and services that can't be advertised on AdWords last summer. Google accounted for 40% of new customers on one of my ecommerce sites and that disappeared overnight. It took half a year to build up and optimize other advertising channels, but now the site does fine in a world without Google.
Thanks, that's very nice advice. I am following something same. learning Python and java, learning Junit, I can do automation with Selenium and QTP.
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I agree, I think great design is product design.

I think there's a similar thing happening with designers that happened with engineers over the past several years, moving from a "idea guy" plus implementation engineers towards everyone looking for a technical co-founder.
Just use TrueCar and skip the salesman?
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Ah, so it's a trick to exploit people's unreasoning instincts to your own ends. Cool!
JoinAStartup (http://www.joinastartup.org) is trying to solve the lack of available designers, but haven't really "taken off" yet. So many good options out their:)
Didn't most of the insiders already cash out before the IPO?
Heh, I suppose so. Bills are just so much nicer than change though.
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For startups that are looking for designers, the Product Design Guild offers sponsorship opportunities for our events (http://www.productdesignguild.com/#sponsorship).

We think it's one of the easiest and most effective ways of putting your story out in front of some of the most connected designers in the Bay Area. email me at hang@bumblebeelabs.com if you're interested in sponsorship.
I do a ton of review of nutrition studies and here's the conclusion I've come to:

The primary concerns are the biggest killers: cancer and CVD. The main causal pathway by which carbohydrates (of which simple sugars have the largest effect) affect CVD incidence is via the simultaneous lowering of HDL and raising of blood serum triglycerides. This is much more important for predicting CVD episodes than the 'low LDL' you hear touted a lot. The connection between sugar and cancer is less well established.
It has closures, I don't really know if it has anything else in common with a functional language...
I'd say it's harder to win La Liga against Real Madrid and Barcelona any given year than it is to win the Premier League or Serie A. In fact, beating Real Madrid and Barcelona to win La Liga is about as difficult as, say, beating Rangers and Celtic to win the Scottish league--and the last manager to pull that off turned out to be quite talented, though it took a few years for him to start consistently winning titles in England.
Would I wear a tailored executive suit to a technical interview? No. But if I'm interviewing technical candidates, all else being equal, I'm going to favor the nicely dressed one who has attended to personal hygiene that day, vs. one that I would have trouble distinguishing from a panhandler.

Dressing up to an appropriate level shows you care.
Ask HN: Please be more thoughtful when downvoting
Lately I've noticed far too many constructive comments that have been downvoted (usually without any explanation). Please stop this. It's okay to have comments that are not in support with the original post or your own thoughts. We don't have to shoot them down.

Downvoting is meant as a management tool to filter out comments that negatively impact the community, or ones that provide no substance or insight. Please do not downvote legitimate comments.

Thank you.
I agree with this 100%. Maybe it was an attempt to ride the DSL fad that Rails ushered in, but it really feels like Scala incurs a lot of extra complexity to support this feature. The Scala code I've written is pretty straightforward but I've made a point of resisting the temptation to build DSLs.
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Maybe an intermediate stage, but no, not the future. Humans are lazy of nature, if they can get Facebook to host it for them (for free), why bother to buy such device and plug it in? Even if it didn’t need any setup except setting a password to manage it or so, I don’t see why anyone would do it when there are better alternatives. The internet speed vs LAN speed issue will disappear over time.
Some of this is also cultural. Foreign investors might feel they're being slighted if you show up in jeans and a t-shirt while they're wearing suits.
If you're looking for "Alt-Tab" style window switching on OS X, the best thing I've found is Witch (http://manytricks.com/witch/)

"Alt-Tab" switches between windows in the order you last focused each window, so it's ideally suited to a stack-based workflow where you may have many windows open but are only using a few of them. OS X already has "Command-Tab", but that switches between applications, not windows.
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A related pitfall is insisting on hiring the absolute best designers. If your startup is only a couple months old, what makes you think an established designer will put their freelancing or agency career on hold to join you on your wild adventure?

same for engineers. roll through the YC startup list, probably half of them are a business model and a rails app.

but you know what? it doesn't matter if they want to say they want the best engineers in their job post. They will attract the type of people they need. We've all heard "A hires A and B hires C", and, well, a twenty something hacker probably isn't trying to attract someone better than him, because, then, why isn't the new hire the CTO?

Engineers and designers exist on a spectrum of value. The businesses that need the best, run by the best, know how to attract the best. The ones that are solving less hard technical problems (but maybe really interesting business problems), they say they only hire the best, but they don't actually need the very best, and this isn't a bad thing. This is all self-evident, and yet people somehow continue to match themselves with the right opportunities, so who the hell cares.

Let's all just stop writing about it, yeah?
Is very hard to find a large audience for a novel without some level of commercial publishing being involved and they will want standard copyright terms.

An interesting exception to this is in the comic book industry where there are a few successful self publishers.
my home connection isn't quite comparable to google's; I think this holds for most other americans, too.
Talk to women and small businesses. Ask them what they feel like they pay way to much for, what their biggest problem this week is. These two markets are so underserved it is ridiculous.
So when is Zynga's traffic going to normalize? Most of the guys I know have already stopped playing the game.

I was actually thinking, what about creating the same game except only obscene/explicit/offensive adult drawings & word choices? There should be plenty of immature people wanting to play the game with their immature friends. I would : )

I read the rules on the Apple app stores and it doesn't seem promising to obtain approval. If someone knows how to find a loophole into getting it approved, please let me know!

BTW. I think everyone is valuing Zynga incorrectly.
Wall street guys and VC guys alike are looking at Zynga with an incorrect model just like all the street guys built incorrect assumptions in their models for housing before it popped.

People should be valuing the company on a risk-adjusted long-term discounted cash flow basis (similar to an early stage pharmaceutical company) mixed with sensitized accretion/dilution models as these companies have to continuously go on acquisition sprees if they do not organically produce good games... But at one point or another, they're not going to create cool games / there won't be another OMGPOP available to buy OR what they bought cools down faster than what they envisioned; and that "RISK" is not currently priced in today's stock price.

Hot games come and go over time but with very little visibility to know when it'll get cold. So what would happen if I was able to create OMGPOP2 - adult version and somehow it was approved and got crazy popular taking market share from the original game. Then Zynga just wasted a lot of the 200m they just paid for (I heard it only makes 200k a day on ads)... that's a long ways to go to make up that 200m watermark to break even, taking into account fairly strong growth...

GG.
Cool they did the montreal Biosphere and the Habitat 67 building but no Olympic stadium :(

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Biosph%C3%A8re,+Montreal,+QC,+...
It can be done in real time. Here is a demonstration from Float4 Interactive : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_YOTZ4MCuA
Question: What do economists generally know that CEOs don't, and vice versa?
I asked this on Quora as well and didn't get much in the way of responses. But, to give an example, Paul Krugman wrote in the 90s about how CEOs typically misunderstand how nations compete, mistaking it for working like competition between firms. What other examples like this are there? And what do CEOs tend to understand that economists often miss?
I could see IPv6 pushing this along a little more, but I agree that humans are too lazy to deal with it.

I currently have a home server, but my career is in information technology and my wife is a photographer. In my case, we have the need to have a central place to store all of our files so that they can be backed up regularly. Even being an I.T. guy, it still took me years of thinking about doing this before I ever did it. I love it now that it's in place, but when there are problems with it I'd almost rather just go back to living on the edge and storing files on our various computers than having to deal with the problems.
I found Dr Lustig's talk enlightening because I always thought of it simply as input -> output (sucrose -> glucose). In retrospect, it's obvious that the bio-checmial process your body uses to convert that is pretty darn important.

However, as cool as it is to get re-introduced to things like ATP and Krebs Cycle, the driving message we get from experts has been a constant for a long time: avoid processed foods.

It's incredibly simple advice to understand and to follow. It's also an excessively easy lifestyle to adopt. There is no lack of unprocessed foods and it isn't more expensive. I just don't understand why people don't eat better. I'd be pretty depressed if I was a health-care professional...decades of messaging and things are only getting worse.
Fuel Consumption Monitor: Many cars offer something like this (particularly hybrids) and it's almost standard now.

A friends car does this and the sweet spot is 63-64 MPH. Typically you can drive 62 and not get pulled over, but 64 is pushing it. She's been pulled over multiple times and she drives this because she gets the positive feed back that is getting better gas milage. She had gone a long time without getting pulled over before this, because she typically doesn't speed. But now, it's like she is playing a game.
There's a :P monster lurking at 35.371205,138.639039. He alludes you despite zooming in. There are some interesting images all over this area of the map.
>I've never understood why so-called "paleo" dieters have to push this point so hard, which as far as I've ever read is pure speculation...

You're right that it's probably unneccessary to even mention that aspect, the salient point is to avoid foods that spike your glucose, and as a result your insulin. It just so happens that anthropologists realized that once you eliminate those foods from your diet, what you're left with is the exact diet of paleolithic era man.

>Science" tells us to stop eating all wheat products! Sounds more like fanaticism.

Read the Intro and first chapter of Arthur De Vany's book, The New Evolution Diet. It explains the science.
This is a horrible idea. Why would you take the job of computer security, management and purchase away from a centralized source and leave it up to the everyday laymen to handle. You say this would solve issues of privacy, but in fact would be a much less secure form of network and would likely increase the risk of security and potential data theft.

I'm a System Administrator by trade and would not ever recommend a solution like this. Centralized systems are just easier on the user and much more cost effective.
You're right, in one sense. Part of it is the same effect that results in four gas stations on one intersection, part of it is the presence of resources and connections, and part is that success breeds success.

On the other hand, my attempt at a point was that once you've started your business, you have to focus on it. Suddenly all that other innovation around you stops being opportunities and starts being distractions. If anyone says to you, "What you're doing is stupid, you should be doing what those guys over there are doing," you probably shouldn't listen to them. The last thing you need to be doing is chasing instead of being chased.

"The bubble" is a really good way to describe it.
We don't "wing" the UI and the UX. We design it. We outsource specific, discrete pieces of other kinds of design that we aren't good at. My point there is that, as the article suggests, we aren't looking for a unicorn designer.

Also, take a deep breath and read what I wrote again. I didn't say that designers in general had those problems, just that the environment at agencies encourages those traits. I stand by that. Programmers who work in particular environments can also have problems adapting to startups, but this article isn't about hiring programmers.
In recent weeks/months they've acquired Hyperpublic, Kima Labs (Barcode Hero), Adku, Pelago (Whrrl), and Fee Fighters. What's their strategy? Move away from email deals, and get into the location-based check-ins space?
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Good message: "don't over consume and stick to unprocessed sources".

It bothers me though that the word sugar is in the title since they really mean sucrose. Both fructose and glucose occur naturally (fruit, veggies, starches) and are not harmful.
It's not like it matters anymore, but Silverlight worked just fine on Macs ever since it was originally released.
Much easier to configure Microsoft Windows Server than your Facebook account
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He has a point.
At the moment, people under 50 can't get hired either.
I just don't understand why people don't eat better.

I understand it perfectly. The brain rewards bad diet; sugar tastes better than fiber. Couple this with food companies that need to grow 10% a year to keep their investors happy, and you have the perfect recipe for making people eat more, cheaper calories. Processed food may be the same price as unprocessed food, but it's more calorie-rich, it's more advertised, and it gets more shelf space at the store. (It is really a lot cheaper, but sold at a higher markup. So that profit buys ads and shelf space.) Hence, the path of least resistance is to buy processed food.
There are numerous applications that currently run on our laptops (e.g., dropbox application) that could potentially steal all your data. As we trust third party apps to behave themselves on our laptops, so can we trust the apps installed on the homeservers. With sandboxing now coming to desktop apps (e.g., thru Mac App Store), this problem will reduce even further.
I think it depends upon where you are in the process. If you find yourself in the fortunate (and rare) situation where you have investors competing to hear you, then wear whatever you want. Go in a bathrobe if it makes you happy.

If you are trying to sell something, your job is to make the person you are selling to like you and then forget about you because of what you are showing.

I do think there is a point to be made here, but in a more abstract sense than business presentations. Apple is actually a poor example because in their early days Jobs was often seen making presentations in suits.
Sucrose occurs naturally too. So does cyanide. Natural != good to eat.
This was probably made by their Google Japan branch, that's why they only had regular Famicom available.
Is there seriously anyone left at this point who doesn't think sugar is toxic?
Refined sugar has only been a big part of our diet for the past couple of hundred years (not even a blink of an eye on an evolutionary time scale). Breads and grain-based foods have been part of our diet for somewhat longer, but highly refined white flour is also comparatively novel in our diet.

I cut all added sugar and all flour (bread, pasta, pizza, etc) and most other grains and processed food from my diet about 18 months ago. I basically went on the paleolithic diet, though I'm not really fanatical about it except for the sugar and flour. I mainly eat unprocessed meat, eggs, leafy vegetables, nuts, some fruit (try to stick to berries) and minimal dairy. I went from 215 lbs to 165 without any real effort (exercise, etc). I'm convinced that the obesity "epidemic" and the need for so many people go on Lipitor and similar drugs as they get older is directly attributable to our sugar- and flour-laden diets.

I do miss freshly baked bread but on balance I think it's worth it. Will I live longer? Who knows, but I feel better eating what my body is evolved to consume.
I watched that a while ago and I remember him talking about the amount of salt in a Coke, as though it were a conspiracy of some kind.

But Coke has very little salt -- about 45 mg.

So the rest of the talk seemed to be colored with a conspiratorial tone, from my perspective. Am I wrong to be so dismissive?
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Fructose is harmful, unfortunately. Sucrose gets split by the body into one fructose and one glucose molecule. And it is the fructose that is harmful because it cannot be properly processed by the liver in large quantities. Sucrose is only harmful in as much as it produces fructose.

It is true that fructose appears naturally all over the place. And that is the tricky part. The liver can actually process fructose fine if it gets a little at a time and simultaneously receives fiber. Almost everywhere fructose occurs naturally it occurs with fiber. Thus, the human body is perfectly capable of processing fructose in its natural state, but once you start concentrating it and removing the fiber the problems come about.

This is why fruits and veggies are perfectly healthy but refined sugars are bad for you.
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I wonder if they have a chopsticks version. Actually, never mind: that's pair piano-playing.
I want to work on this idea to make it into a company. I am kinda soliciting ideas from people to learn more. I think the this product will be useful precisely when all the issues you mentioned will be streamlined. A simple web based UI to the homeserver can allow for installing apps, removing them, setting up passwords, uploading data and consuming data from within the house network.
I was saddened by that, too. No Wire reference at least? But hey, they didn't even give Niagara Falls special treatment.
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If you try to replicate the route from Los Angeles to New York on Google Maps 8-bit Quest mode, it's not nearly the same route as the one in the video. Curious they missed that.
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