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In my experience, tasks that take longer than one week sometimes take two weeks. But if they don't make it within two, they basically never ship. It's like you can go out and have one drink, or two, or many. But never three...
We do regular one-day long refactoring sessions where everyone refactors. But yeah, our codebase is not a thing of beauty. We're more focused on figuring out what users actually want, and we'll rebuild it when it's falling over.
"All BD via APIs". I know what APIs are, but what's BD?
The problem is that there is an incentive to always pad estimates. By forcing a one-week schedule, you counterbalance that tendency, and make it possible to measure yourself more accurately. Despite this, I'd say that many of our projects fail, never ship, ship and have to be rolled back, or ship and have to be iterated 5 or more times until we get them "good enough." But it still beats taking 3 months to ship something interesting, which is the cycle most startups are on once they're out of an incubator or done with their initial release.
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Me too. Bobby tables is classic.

http://xkcd.com/327/
Ask HN: An Application That *Needs* To Exist
a really simple text editor that starts the second you wake your laptop/desktop and doesn't close until you've written 500 words. here's the premise:

-good motivator to get your writing done
-it's like opening up a blank notebook every time. you shouldn't start the morning with writing, start it with writing. (maybe it only greets you in the morning)
-most of the time, when i open my laptop, the only thing on my mind is what i want to write.
Done. Looks funky in safari on iPad btw
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Man - if they were going to exclude a surname, they could at least research it first, surely? After 5 minutes Google search, I found the following:

http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Fake
Apparently Jim Clark personally did well, but the phrase "the Netscape strategy" does not paint a rosy picture of success.
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First of all, I'm not sure it's right to call Crockford "the greatest JavaScript guru". That's a stretch, to say the least.

Secondly, you appear to be claiming that Crockford offers strong criticism of JS's inheritance model in The Good Parts. If that's what you took away from it, I think you would do well to reread that chapter.

Of course JS's inheritance system is imperfect just like that of pretty much any other language.
Couldn't you argue that race, religion and/or political association and the like have an affect on programming tests also?
Google search results are vastly different these days depending on who (or what) is searching. My guess is that 'who is searching' in this case is a box in a datacenter, somewhere in the midwest.
Well, once you're already in space, you can use nuclear pulse propulsion without leaving a giant radioactive crater on the earth's surface:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion
As sophisticated as their gender dropdown, which only includes "Male" and "Female". I just tried to register Chris Fake, and it tells me:

"Our automated system will not approve this name. If you believe this is an error, please contact us."

At least they let folks contact them now, I guess.
Agreed. This kind of stuff is going to result in a massive amount of new music in the next few years. Very cool.

There's been a slew of these going around lately (I found this cool, simple little one last week: http://www.sembeo.com/media/Matrix.swf). Incredibox is the most fun version yet.
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Considering that there a plenty of people with no last name at all, I don't find it at all hard to imagine that there might also be people with a real last name consisting of only one letter.

There is a town famously called simply "Y" in France.
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It shouldn't be a free pass though ;)

"A big red button is awful." isn't much good compared to "A big red button is awful because ..." or "Instead of a big red button you should do ..."
The detection may not be more sophisticated, but the UX is a bit better now. Now it says "Our automated system will not approve this name. If you believe this is an error, please contact us." The "contact us" links to https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=212848065405122. In that FAQ, it explains that you need to use your real name, and leads to another link where you can appeal the automated decision: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact/?id=237843336274237. You have to upload a government-issued ID to get the account.
What makes it so bad? I haven't looked at it in a while, but I don't remember having a beef with the original LDAP:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1777.txt
See: thrill.
Actually, in Starcraft: Brood Wars you could explode a critter with a "nuke" animation by clicking repeatedly on it. :)
I guess one good thing that came out of the Social Network is that they will never live down their parts in the movie. Especially being portrayed as "bad guys." Just the start of the interview the first 30 seconds must have been very awkward for them.
Well, I switched from csh to zsh and almost got arrested.

While a senior in high school (~15 years ago), I was also enrolled at the local university and taking a few 1000- and 2000-level Math and CS courses. About halfway into the spring semester, my account on the CS department's crusty old Sun box was locked, and my CS professor that semester told me to report to the system administrator's office after class.

When I arrived at the system administrator's office, the department's system administrator and the department head were waiting for me. The sysadmin immediately (and angrily) said that if this were anywhere but a university, he'd see that I was thrown in jail. When I asked what he was talking about, he turned to his computer, banged on the keyboard for a bit, and turned the massive CRT so I could read it.

On his screen was an e-mail I had sent him the semester before asking that he change my shell from /bin/csh to /usr/local/bin/zsh. (Solaris of that vintage didn't have chsh, so I couldn't do it myself.)

The sysadmin was absolutely convinced that zsh gave me "elevated system privileges", even though he was the one that changed my passwd entry and presumably was the one who compiled and installed zsh in the first place.

When I argued that /usr/local/bin/zsh didn't have the suid or sgid bits and therefore gave me no more access to the system than any other shell, the department head scolded me for arguing with the (experienced, wise) sysadmin.

The sysadmin changed my shell back to csh, and the department head made me sign a document stating that I wouldn't change my shell back to zsh or try to "further gain administrative access" to the system.

On the drive home, I idly wondered whether going to (a different!) college full-time in the fall was really such a hot idea...
I didn't downvote you but I wanted to respectfully point out that your question could have been more easily answered by taking a moment to Google about the Winklevoss brothers and the Social Network, rather than post your comment here. That kind of thing is all just a few clicks away at any time, on the web.
http://costofwar.com/en/

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

Basically, if it is health care, education, science, etc., our "representatives" are penny pinchers and will debate the issue until the end of days. Everything else gets signed in a day or the dead of night.
This is not true. Only HTTPS URLs get SPDY. Perhaps you're thinking of HTTP Strict Transport Security, which transforms HTTP URLS to HTTPS on the client. You can see whether you're getting SPDY or not (in Chrome) at chrome://net-internals/#events&q=type:SPDY_SESSION%20is:active

One reason for this is that proxies and other buggy/evil bit-twiddlers in the path of your connection don't understand SPDY, so the only way to punch SPDY through them is to use a protocol they're not allowed to meddle with.
"The problem with brain chemistry and other "hard facts" is that they are always cherry-picked to justify one's position post factum"

And therefore, brain chemistry plays no role whatsoever?

"On a larger note, please don't add to the fire saying that women are less interested in any kind of intellectual pursuits"

Why not, if it is true? Is it wrong to say that men are less interested in knitting than women? I'd like to know making true statements about a population is "dickery".
Clearly buggy, it thinks I am "mostly alright"
Interestingly, I saw this comment on reddit yesterday that was a "leak" about this new easter egg.
(http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/stek5/what_little... )
Metacrawler was awesome at this time.
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The drink was spilled on the computer. Although immediately shut off, it didn't work any more.
I've wondered for awhile what some good programming music is. I know this could vary but what do some of your playlists consist of? Or even link up good Spotify playlists.
1) Go to pandora

2) Start a new channel

3) Type "abakus"

4) vote up/down as desired

5) go on and be productive with an awesome, low-key background soundtrack
You have a bipartite graph of bills and representatives. You use co-voting for the similarity metric to cluster representatives. Flip that around and cluster the bills using similarity of voters.
Ah, I see. Thanks. I thought it was a hosted web app.
Simon Jackman calculates ideal point estimates based on non-unanimous roll calls: http://jackman.stanford.edu/ideal/currentSenate/x1.pdf

I think his R source is available too.
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My favorite is http://somafm.com/play/suburbsofgoa
Agreed of course, and actually I don’t mind the look.

The problems are: small unreadable font, small controls/buttons, content too wide to read comfortably, doesn’t correctly support mobile, links that rely on cookies that expire (what is this? 1998?).
Medigram (YC) allows hipaa compliant messaging between doctors
Depends on the style of the company. Different companies would say different things about this.

Apple: "Bad advice. Let a "Jon Ive" type design-lead think through the product and detail every page of it. Don't let engineers run product. Give them the ability to give feedback on product, but give the ultimate authority to somebody who understands human emotion, art, UX, etc"

Google pre-Page: "Good advice. Engineers should control product. They are smarter than everybody else, and therefore will make the best software."

The reality of these company's positions is more nuanced than this, but these caricatures have their place in helping to understand how they think.
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Mark officially worked for them before ;)
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There are a bunch of channels on there though. Some sort of trance might be more your thing: http://www.di.fm/classictrance
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I was all about Groove Salad until I found http://di.fm/
You're surprised that a place which skews heavily toward Valley folks, and almost exclusively to first-worlders, is full of support for something that solves their problems?
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Things may have changed in the last few years as blogspam is still pretty lucrative and has continued to advance, but I remember reading a study a few years ago (found here: http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2007/04/09/why-wordpresscom-i...) that made the conclusion that by barring Wordpress.com bloggers from using AdSense and other advertising services, they significantly cut down on the amount of spam Blogger and other services had to deal with. Wordpress.com does have WordAds (http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/wordads/).

Otherwise, if you don't qualify for WordAds, self-hosting may be your best option.
Your headline is more accurate and descriptive, but this headline knows its audience a lot better. This a lesson about marketing in there somewhere.
I've been a paying subscriber to di.fm for years. It's great.

Honestly, I barely know what the different station names mean; I just flip through the stations until I find one that has a beat/sound that matches what I'm looking for at that moment.
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Sounds like you may enjoy http://epiphanyradio.org/
This blog post is quite old. They do have such an appeal system in place now.

http://i.imgur.com/xQNvz.jpg
For Mashups collections, check out Bootie: http://bootiemashup.com/ (and if you're in SF, definitely check them out at DNA Lounge). They do a downloadable annual Best Of album. http://bootiemashup.com/bestof/ (IMHO, the older albums are better.)

If you're looking for a full-album experience, check out the Kleptones. Here's an awesome HTML5 visualization of their album A Night at the Hip Hopera: http://mashupbreakdown.com/nhh

And, of course, Girl Talk
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I'm surprised no one mentioned the Buddha Machine -- a physical box that loops sounds and beats to make a similar sort of music: http://www.fm3buddhamachine.com/v2/ This site reminds me a bit of the iPad app, which lets you work half a dozen virtual machines.
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1) Many senators shift to the left side (more conservative) as time goes by

2) It's especially true about republicans
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Wow. Thank you sir/ma'am.
I am a paying Evernote customer. And let's be honest it doesn't in anyway offer something magical.

iCloud enabled apps (see how well Reminders works on Mountain Lion) are starting to show how well cloud services can work. And Microsoft won't be far behind.

Services like Evernote will be taken down by the onslaught of "automatically synced" apps that is coming. Many of which will be going right for Evernote's jugular.
Should be a lesson for you, marketing matters. Your title didn't get people to click and enjoy.
sure and the fact microsoft ties you into a lifelong comittment with licenses(break one and you still owe money) has nothing to do with it. dude, ive been hearing bunk like this for years and in the meantime linux is growing like weeds. you need to be glad no real way of measuring linux growth numbers exists. it would be very painful im sure. ms is dying and must find another venue soon. in the mean time, let me know when you are ready to be free, ill direct you to ubuntu's website.
The message was clear, some people just see what they want to though.
Wait, so you got an interview that dispensed with the whiteboard BS.. and you thought that was a bad thing?
He didn't give the world a new way of taking notes. It's been done many, many times before.

He just made the best implementation of it.
Awesome idea and only gonna be better with the mail mining. Once you get some traction should be easy to sell targeted ads and mine your own data and sell as market research. Is a Firefox add-on coming soon for the non-Chrome folks?
We did a startup that used the same model in stopping online procrastination: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2268710, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuc0_ZMQ4P8 and our competitor in productivity space blogged about us :http://blog.beeminder.com/timecarrot/. My experience is that, it is really hard to build a business model around behavioral economics, be it weight loss, quitting smoking, or anything else. Based on the data I have seen, people who will think they need commitment device are also sophisticated enough to know that they might fail, hence won't signup. In the end, you always end up serving significantly smaller number of consumers than you have initially assumed.
I'm not saying you can't do well by doing good. I'm just saying that people need to admit they are in business to succeed in business rather than for an altruistic cause. There's a whole sector of benefit-corps, cooperatives, and chartered social enterprises for altruistic causes.
I own Ivan Ooze and Rita Repulsa facebook accounts. Apparently ooze is fine for a last name
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In direct contrast to software jobs, where you can stay very healthy by spending an hour in the gym every day after sitting in a cubicle for your 10-hour workday.
I can't find any documentation to corroborate that. The draft 2 spec mentions HTTP several times: "...it should be used in preference to HTTP/HTTPS. ... all HTTP requests can "piggyback" on an existing SPDY session. ... all future http requests to that host port pair should use the SPDY session rather than opening a new HTTP connection." http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-protocol/spdy-protocol-dra... (Curiously, the deployment section is completely missing from draft 3 and the IETF version.)

If Chrome does something different, I wonder why.
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I don't think he would be rejected, at least not for slowness of thought. If he were applying to YC with an idea he had thought about deeply, the answers to the questions in this simulation would be mere cache lookups, requiring negligible CPU. Only in the case of a cache miss would he have to think very much, and even then one or two cache misses probably wouldn't be enough to sink his application, especially considering how good the YC partners are at detecting deep intelligence.
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Just as a note:
Published in one of the journals (Psychological Science) that was mentioned a few days ago in another article about trying to replicate psychological experiments as part of the Open Science Framework ("Is Psychology About to Come Undone?" http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/is-psychology-about-to...).
They would flood the "market" with dvd's missing the last ten minutes. This would force people into buying commercial complete versions just to find out what happened.

Kinda like breeding and releasing a bunch of sterile invasive pests to outnumber what you want to get rid of.
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Ask HN: Looking for a house to rent in Silicon Valley - need help
I have no intention of trying use Hacker News as a silicon valley Craigslist, so I hope it doesn't seem that way and I apologize if it does. I need to find a place to live in Silicon Valley that meets my needs and keeps the wife happy, and I've been having a hard time getting promising leads from Craigslist or finding other promising sources. I'm wary of using any paid sites or services unless they come heavily recommended by the community - but any recommendations you have would be greatly appreciated. If you happen to have a house you'd like to lease, I would of course love to hear from you too!

I'll be working in Sunnyvale, but we like the Morgan Hill area and think it'd be worth the commute. We'd like to start a lease in late June or early July. We plan on having kids and a dog in the near future - so a modest place that suits both would be best. Looking for something around $2500-$2750 a month.

Any recommendations, leads, or advice from the community?
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I have received mail from SSA addressed to <myname> Unknown, because of confusion over my name.
Once I entered my town name of "Cumming" on a web page, and it objected with "my, what colorful language."
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Now it is in hands of Microsoft but the problem was created early when skype was created, they never saw this as a big issue I guess. And honestly is it a big issue? I think it isn't worth sewing for, right now it's more of a face issue if anything. Im sure MS can handle this, if they want to/
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My GDrive CLI interface:

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Then once they mine your inbox / bank statements they can get referral bonuses for legitimately churning you to alternate energy / insurance / telco subscriptions etc.

People will hand over all kinds of data to save money.

(Not being snarky, I suspect there is a bigger business model for this)
When I see a URL shortener in a craigslist ad, I assume it's some kind of spam.

I bet a lot of other people do, too.
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nah it will load tabs that you open in the background without that option, even in FF13
but if you restart the browser, it won't, ONLY for the tabs it restores at startup.

Means basically if you open a tab via click or contextual menu and u don't have "only load tabs when selected" it WILL load the tab.
But when you restart the browser (or start) with your 100tabs, it will only load the first one.
Before that itd both be slow if you had a bad connection and be slow (obviously no browser can instant-render 100 pages)
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The problem is with requiring knowledge about a certain set of "esoterica".

Your question is fine: it's open-ended, the interviewees can answer whatever they feel like (and you can assess their knowledge of the language to some degree), and ideally you get a nice little discussion going, that also covers other topics.

On the other hand "What's up with that explicit keyword and constructors in c++?" is a pop quiz questions.
The idea is pretty neat--I recently got the reminder that my AWS free trial was expiring soon, which trigger a "holy crap!" moment because I had completely forgot I was even running an instance there.

That said, seriously guys what is it with ending everything in -ly? It doesn't even really make sense... "in a manner resembling SaaS"? And you're saasly.com, not even saas.ly. SaaSmon, SaaSwatch, these sort of indicate what you're doing, at least, and are reasonably pronounceable too.
Yea I know. Apparently I should be adding hacker, programming, Ask PG, ycombinator application etc to everything I post :)

I think though I did just get a lesson in what makes people click. Kinda like when I see "Kardashian's body and photoshop" headlines in my FB feed...