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Am I missing something? Where is the data?
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Better yet: Build a company that makes you a comfortable living, acquire customers who pay you (sort of needed for that "comfortable living" bit), and when people try to acquire you, politely decline.

You'll make a good or great income, you will be making your customers happy and delivering value, and no one is going to be pissed because there's no one aborting your product.
What my personal experience told me so far, there are always situations that only happen once. then you can do the right thing or you don't, so be carefull how you react in situations like this since they can change the course of your history. the trick is to recognize these moments, but that#s when you do the right thing, so I agrre with you.

As the of hagakure put it (cited from my memory and translated twice...): treat important thing lightly and treat unimprtant ones with all the seriousness you have.

It took me some hard decissions and situations to slowly get this and it seems like death is best teacher for that you can imagine. So we all should learn from other peoples mistakes and lessons, espacially if it's almost impossible to make them by yourself.
Have you looked in places outside of the traditional NYC/SV/Seattle area? Not sure where you are located, but it might be worthwhile to look around for talent where nobody is looking.
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The way you phrased it makes it sound like the illegality is something beyond the fact that it calls emergency services. Is that the case, and if so, what makes it illegal?
I wonder how much global warming can be accounted for by CPU cycles spent needlessly executing instructions from undisplayed web pages? If every website started using the Page Visibility API, we could save the planet!

This library looks good, the high-level timer and initialiser stuff is a nice abstraction.
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This is seriously not OK. It's also fraud. The persons in your comments and in this thread saying it's all cool and you are the bad guy for having a problem with it, where the heck did they come from?
This is pretty cool, I wonder how they realised this was possible. I can only assume they monitored a lot of activations to realise it.
Make a choice then: learn to code or focus on design.

I can help you. I make double as a designer as what I made as a front-end developer and I'm also happier for it. The more focused you become on design the less dependent you'll be on either the business side or the engineering team. And you'll be more in-demand than either.
Simple and valuable to Google, perhaps, but a major sign that they're no longer doing what's best for users. It breaks the web in at least two ways: makes it slower and hides the true links. I hate that they do this. Nothing has been more destructive of the warm feeling I used to have toward Google. I still use them out of habit but eventually irritation and the rise of some credible competitor will coincide and cause me to switch.
Did anyone else find the story about switching from a tree structure to a list kind of weird? On the one hand, that's a pretty trivial sort of optimization, and hardly seems worth making a fuss about.

But on the other hand, isn't he assuming that any future users of his compiler will have source code that looks like his? Sounds like all it would take is one person using an automatic code generator to generate Oberon code that's not smart about reusing variable names to bring the compiler to its knees...
Not in every case but most notably anyone working in the role of project manager, an actor who I give the hook to as soon as I'm on a project.
Wow. Will it kill civilians and crash like the original?
Well we all die eventually. And based on most of the 85 year old folks I see tottering around here, you're not missing much if you check out at 80.
They're no longer lagging. The most recent version has a new ui framework that is hardware accelerated and cross-platform (a pretty unique combination). You can even make iOS apps with it.
Wait, people use foo/bar/etc in code they share with others?

I use them frequently in one-off programs that are destined to be thrown away in a day, but never in code I share. They are, at least in my mind, markers of badly thought out code (so badly thought out that I didn't spend the time necessary to think up good variable names!).
Yes, locked by you. You're not exactly an impartial observer in all this. You have comments throughout this thread attacking everyone who disagrees with you, and obstinately refusing to see anyone else's point of view. I don't know you, but based on your behavior, you've confirmed that the moderators are the problem.
Yet another black versus white discussion. Technical versus non technical. Coder versus non coder.

The two cannot co-exist? You are either one or the other?
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> high crime rates on public transportation in the US speak for themselves.

This isn't because riding on a shared, public vehicle turns people into hooligans. If you catch public transport in the US, you see a cross-section of people who are too young, old, poor or mentally ill to own a car. Naturally, there will be more crime.
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with designer-first UI. After all, none of the points pg pointed out are engineering related.

The problem here is that there is still a confusion between graphics designers and interaction designers. A lot of companies let the former do the job of the latter, and it shows.
This sounds like whats missing with any existing service and the most wanted one too!
He later said that this is not true after some people provided some examples. Its more a 99% rule.

Most of them are Java Interop related but sometimes a algorithem is clearer in one function.
Thanks for this! I was looking for something similar just a week ago.
We did similar things with images in this Codebrawl: http://codebrawl.com/contests/content-aware-image-cropping-w...
I just realized how much I was influenced by the demo scene in what I program and create. Great documentary.
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them by the grace of God

Excuse me if I doubt any of the claims in this article.
There were a couple of times in the video where the demonstrator tapped the screen an extra time. For example when he would pinch, he would then tap the screen one more time. I wonder why that is.
During the cold war it was common to segment data so that the compromise of a single agent wouldn't cause too much damage. I doubt there's too much concern over the data the drone contains, but the hardware is state-of-the-art and perhaps it should also have an accident (maybe the centrifuges could teach it how to self destruct ... Or a North Korean rocket will accidentally fall on it).

I guess I'm waiting to see how much of this information is verified by someone outside the Iranian government (hmmm ... And the U.S. Government).
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Any other tips in this regard?
I agree with you on the need for a userbase. WP7 is currently at 2 million+ devices, which is pretty extensive but there is less competition than there would be on Android as there are fewer apps. As a result, the uptake on people buying your software might be higher in WP than on Android (a gut guess, I must admit, but it's what's prompted me to write the article).

I don't think Google will drop Android completely but I think that the fragmentation will get worse. For example, I'd develop for the Kindle Fire version of Android before others. Why? Because monetization in the Kindle app store seems to work better (there was an article on HN about this a few weeks back).

I agree with your last line and that's where the Motorola acquisition is puzzling. It strikes me that HTC, Samsung and others may start looking at WP as an alternative now that Motorola is owned by Google. If Nokia shows sign of strength (and early indications point that the Lumia 900 is heading in the right direction), others might follow... and THAT is an issue for Android.
The GPL is permissive for the intended audience of software licenses - the end users.

Yes, precisely! And one of the ideals that Free software is designed around is that there are no end users - everyone can be a developer (or farm it out to anyone willing to work the job - ultimate free market capitalism). Unfortunately, there are still bills to be paid, and people are raised in the mindset of "I've got mine; who cares about anyone else?" and always grasping for more. So they think they can't make any money with GPL software, or it will expose them to legal worries, or they'll be forced to open source all their code. In the case of the first, this is categorically not true. In the latter two cases, no one has been able to bring up a credible example of when this has ever happened in the 20+ years the GPL has been in existence.

One last thing: the data used in the article is from a very well known Microsoft front company: http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Black_Duck
> pension funds' investment scope are not restricted by any of the above,

Agreed, they aren't restirited to buying stocks that fit that criteria, but that is how they invest.

> where did you get that information from?

Hedgie here. Almost all pension funds don't invest in stocks unless:
a) they are part of an index and the fund just buys the index
b) the stock pays out some sort of income that the fund can use to fund its liabilities to the pension holders.
c) the fund has some advantage that the rest of the market doesn't have that can make it money off of hte stock.

I can't really see any of the above applying globally to pension funds that would cause them to be a net buyer of groupon.

Now those funds, typically hedgies, will get in and trade groupon, ie by and short the stock between chosen intervals.

you might not believe it from all the negative press groupon has gotten here but there has been some strong buying happening from the hedgies, accompanied by even stronger shorting.

The borrow has been the largest reason why shorting hasn't been stronger.

As to the original point of Groupon being "dumped on pension funds". You'd be surprised but the quality of many of the investment professionals working at pension funds, there are some really smart people working there.

They won't just buy groupon like complete idiots, they are typically very intelligent investors. The only case I can see them being net buyers are the points I originally listed.

1) they are forced to as they have to own certain indexes
2) the stock starts paying out a large and consistent revenue stream the fund can use to cover it's monthly liabilities.
3) they do a deal with groupon to put more money into it that gets them a value well below what the current mkt value is.
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In that matter, as with this current one, eBay/PayPal
spokespeople said that preventing fraud — not enhancing
profits, by accumulating bank interest — was the point
of hanging on to the money.

Good'ol "plausible deniability".
Very cool. This made me realize that its been a long time since I visited the Head-Fi forums.
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A similar chart could have been produced a few years ago about RIM. If I were to substitute RIM for Android and Android for WP and write the article in 2007, what would you be saying?
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I thought the goal was to evevtually build a plane that could be anywhere in the world within an hour. There are many more uses for this, of course. Next generation SR71 Blackbird, fire missiles on enemy vehicle, sink pirate ship, etc.
It's always good to be reminded how amazing it was to put someone on the moon with 1960s technology.
Why is it not okay? Any lisper will tell you using a function is always preferable to using a macro, if at all possible.
I don't much care for trendiness or bandwagon hopping, but there are a few things about lighttable clearly hit on the future of computing (though quite by accident, I imagine).

First, programs and databases will grow together continuously. The missing piece of the puzzle here is that currently most people view databases as a single correct representation of the world, and assume that whether you have an acid database or a nosql solution, all transactions must eventually be reconciled, and a single truth must emerge. This is patently false.
In actuality, database systems will begin to resemble distributed version control systems very closely over the next five to eight years, until they are almost indistinguishable. The two will meet in the middle as all distributed revision control systems end up using off the shelf graph database systems, and these graph database systems incorporate additional functionality to support one them. At some point most editors will be capable of speaking directly to the database systems without file intermediates, and if we need to transmit program data from one place to another, it will be via cloning/replication, or a textual dump and restore in some (rare) circumstances.
Make no mistake about it, the key-value and column based architecture of current nosql solutions is going to transition to graph databases in the not to distant future - the algorithms to make efficient use of graph databases aren't quite there yet but it is getting very close. The idea of a single consistent world view is going to shift to various contexts and sub-contexts where consistency need not hold throughout the hierarchy (exactly in the manner of forks and branches). We will share data by establishing contextual nesting and hierarchies of information primacy.

Files are an artifact of early computing architecture, and holding on to them beyond their useful lifetime will only anchor us.
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Haha. Thank you for this post. They look all pretty shitty :-)
I don't use printed ones, but I do maintain a personal wiki where I keep all of my documentation over the years. It's extremely useful to be able to search my cheat sheets across my history.
If the mechanical engineers were doing a startup that involved mechanical engineering then I would say they are technical.
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That's a very big assumption, wouldn't you agree?

I agree with what you're saying, but you have to be practical. Verifying things rather than just assuming things based on superficial observation is important. But we simply don't have time to verify everything, as your post demonstrates. So sure, encourage people to verify things instead of spouting off hot air. But realize that superficiality is a necessary evil. Sometimes, you just need to make an inference off of a few observations, and that's ok as long as you realize the inherent limitations of superficiality.
Let's bump this!

Thanks HN community!
With multiple kill vehicles that are capable of repositioning themselves in flight (like the ones shown here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9mNNA2gEF8), I don't even think you can call that an advantage.

The only advantage I can think of is the possibility of a return flight, but that only matters if reuse is economical vs an expendable vehicle (probably not), or if the cargo is "precious", i.e. a human. Given the prevalence of drone aircraft (including some that can stay airborne indefinitely), increasing capability of satellite optics, and literally decades of refinement on ICBMs, I'd have to say that this pursuit is more likely purely for research. (Of course, as a researcher you always have to "sell" your experiments to the decision makers with lines like "strike anywhere in under an hour".)
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These studies keep appearing, but they're never detailed enough for me. Correlation is not equal to causation. It's meaningless to say "people who sit more die more" unless we know why this is the case. At the very least, I want to see a laundry list of controls: physical exercise, weight, diet, stress, etc. More than a few of these articles contain useless warnings like, "sitting leads to obesity." Great, then don't say sitting kills you, say obesity kills you.
I actually fully agree. I originally chose that copy to reflect how good our prices are relative to the "old guard" domain markets, but it's too unsubstantiated of a claim. I've replaced this copy with something better. Thanks for the constructive criticism.
You're right. I've found a number of people in the Montreal area. Especially since salaries are comparatively low up there.
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For all of you who think all of Detroit is a vast wasteland here is proof that it is not.
It doesn't even check for underflow!
I believe it's vacuum tube amplifier that are expensive.
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any way to launch it with the json in the url?
Yeah, but consider: the SR-71 was intended to replace the U-2. Which one was retired? Which one is still in active use?
This kind of thing can bounce back.

Years ago, a friend called, said they had an opening and would I like to send him my resume. I did. He sent it to his manager.

A week later his manager told him that their contracting agency had already sent him my resume. And that for contractual reasons with that agency he could not consider me.

Now, I'd never even heard of this contracting agency, let alone sent them my resume. But I had dealt with other agencies, and copies of my res were on web sites.

I've always assumed they captured it from the web, or a scuzzy rep fled to a new agency with a long list of resumes on CD.
I sit on a yoga ball when I'm at the computer. It's a dramatic improvement over sitting on a stationary object or using a standing desk. The constant need to balance has strengthened my core and the freedom to make the tiniest adjustment means I'm always comfortable and less likely to experience fatigue. Sitting in any kind of chair feels weird now. It's such a different experience, I can't believe it would have a similar negative effect. I wish I had started years earlier, but like any activity, it's important to take regular breaks and include exercise in your lifestyle.
Its not a complete app yet. This is the prototype and the iPad app is currently being built.
For those of you that think Detroit is nothing but a vast wasteland here is cinematic proof that it is not.
Love how he contradicts himself all over the place. Such as IOBits sucks because no one knows what "IO" means, but Chart.io is great because IO tells you what it does, or something.
You can validate demand with simple landing page and adwords to drive traffic based on features and benefits..
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Great talk, thanks for the link.
Yup, I kind of acknowledged that already, what you say is true of course. Yet in my environment I can still imagine software scenarios where I can say "you need a technical guy for this" to my friends and mean a non-programmer or a special type of programmer. I say no harm in being precise if it costs nothing.
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Shameless plug, but more so I'd like you to rip apart my code and let me know how to improve.<p>Also, anyone working on any projects in Processing? Share :D
Well they reveal a bunch of specific dates and locations of missions that they say they pulled from logs.

I don't know if the information is accurate, and probably neither do most people here on HN. Only a small number of people in the world know if it is. Most of those people who know whether or not that information is correct are at the Pentagon.

If the log entry information is correct, then the claims they were able to read the logs becomes more credible. And it's the folks at the Pentagon that this news release is directed to, and I'm sure they have received and understood the significance of it.
Email I agree is considerably different. I think of it as fitting a different niche, but I'm admittedly not sure how most people use it. I don't consider it to be "conversation" in the same way as IM, IRC, or talking on the phone are conversation, though I guess you could use it that way. I try to use it more for intellectual exchange than personal conversation, in bigger, less frequent chunks. Same with HN comments or blog posts, for that matter, or even old-style letter-writing or office-memo circulation.
Would it have been better for Iran to have said nothing or is this only to provoke the US & alies?
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what have you done, and how did things turn out?

Agency got my resume, sent it to a company un-authorized. At at about the same time a peer was sending that manager my resume.

I lost out on what may have been a pretty good position, forever barred from that company.

I didn't do anything, couldn't. They wouldn't tell me who the agency was, other than it wasn't the one I had been dealing with.

That was a decade ago. I don't know what I'd do now: maybe write a polite blog post about it, so if someone googled my name they'd have my side of the story.
I mean, I guess it can be both, but I would imagine fraud has a much larger potential impact on PayPal's business than the very meager bank interest gained for delaying payments.

I believe that PayPal views fraud as the number one threat to their business, and they are willing to piss people off and lose customers in order to keep fraud losses to a minimum.
I'm now tempted to get my local science museum to set this up, at least until Mars. Would help understand to see it in real life I think.
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Totally agree. Up until seeing this I never thought I even wanted a headphone amp, know I feel like I need to make one this lovely.

Projects like this are why I like to make things, not for the thing, but for the make.
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Whatever I learn I keep using them often, making a habit.
So apparently, God is on everybody's side and has the set of all encryption keys.
Clipper the dBase III extension language? People still use that?

Dang - should have held onto those manuals.
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Even for things like formal communication I've found that phone calls and face-to-face conversations are more productive, creative, complex, but most importantly I've found that people are more willing to change their opinions in face-to-face conversations, as opposed to an email where you assert your opinion and then get to be happy with it while you wait for a response.
I wonder how good their cross-platform fu is if they don't have a mac version of the IDE.
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