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> reinstalling the os voids warranty

That's why you should make a disk image before you wipe Windows. Plug in a Linux Live USB, use dd + gzip to create a bit-for-bit copy of your hard drive (it should compress well because there's no data on the machine), keep the copy in an external hard drive, and then wipe the internal hard drive. Nobody at Best Buy will know what you did.
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Not sure about the truck drivers. I can see the benefits in making all the long-range truck deliveries drive through the night. This could be encouraged by time-of-use road charges for things like interstate highways, for a discount in registration fees or fuel taxes, I guess.

But delivery trucks will still need someone in them to make the deliveries. But what would change is that the delivery person could be doing things in the truck while on the rounds - this could be related or unrelated work.

Generally, if a technology transition releases a lot of productivity, it also drastically lowers cost of whatever is affected (delivered goods, which is everything). This, by rights, should free up a lot of extra money for people, which they can then spend on other things. The other things generally cause more economic activity somewhere else, which should create the new jobs.

But a portion of truck drivers will lose their job, with it never to return.

However, this can't be, nor should it be, stopped.
That's good point. Taken on board, and we'll improve the page to encourage IE users to let us know. It's very true that things might change which would require us to change our tack, but as a bootstrapped startup with a hundred things requiring attention, IE support has taken a back seat.
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> Why would the car have to wait around in the parking lot all day while you're at work? It could easily keep running around ferrying people places.

Yes those are called buses and taxis. :) they already exist. they're dirty. and they're not always available when you need them.

One advantage to what you're proposing though is that unlike buses and trains you wouldn't have to put up with dirty, dangerous or rude people near you in the same vehicle.
Thanks for sharing. Yeah, this is the second half of the story that I deliberately excluded. My story mirrors much of your own, actually. Once I felt my skills were up to par, I sought companionship with like minded folks. Not because I wanted to learn from them necessarily, but just because I wanted to be around people like myself (whom I couldn't seem to find locally for the life of me, despite attending a university with one of the most prestigious cs programs in the world). So I packed up my life in the dreary midwest and now work for a startup in sunny Los Angeles with great people. Just barely avoided the burnout phase and couldn't be happier.
Exactly. There are many ways to alienate potential users (missing languages, missing features, etc). In the early stages we've learned the importance of focussing on the biggest bottlenecks first.
No seriously, please take this to court, it will be absolutely hilarious.
Autonomous racing series - now that will be interesting. I don't think it would look like current motor racing - it is centered around the cult of the driver - but more like an outgrowth of robot wars. We could already have remote controlled race cars where the drivers sat in simulators and drove remotely - but we don't because people want to be in the hot seat.

Driverless racing cars could go incredibly fast - and require real solutions to large computing problems. And this would push development of driverless cars along quickly, just as motor racing pushed along the infant car industry quickly.
Searched for something I've been wanting to do for awhile, and got this message:

We can't get you directly to China just yet.

Might want to put a prominent (disclosed) affiliate link there instead of letting me down. Or just simply say "But wait, there's more! I can get you to country X nearby.

Perhaps consider using different geoip databases for different locales, I might be in the minority but you thought I was 940 miles away, in the USA.
Pretty sure a gaming "brand" company owns the rights to that emoticon. It was the subject of much criticism a couple months ago.
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The Viet Cong was broken by their failure in the Tet Offensive. But they would have been broken much sooner if their source of support in the north was eliminated.

And no military can be effective when it's micromanaged from the White House.
You bring up an interesting point. Would you, as a parent, be happy with a driverless car going to collect your child from school/wherever? At what age of the child would you be happy with that?
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...when I talk with OEMs and others about Linux pre-loads, I commonly [sic] here a "significant percentage" of these Linux pre-loaded systems usually get wiped by their customers and replaced with pirated copies of Windows -- especially in the Asian markets, where customers are just going after the Linux PCs due to the lower sales cost.

Can anyone confirm this?
I'm unclear as to how this is even remotely relevant. Mac compatibility has been a pain in the ass for.. err...... who again?

IE compatibility has been a pain in the ass for pretty much every web developer everywhere up until very recently.
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I'm thinking desktop apps - most companies would create PC-only versions of software in the 1990s -- or PC-first.
>It is not legal to manufacture firearms unless you are licensed.

This is false. It is legal for non-prohibited persons to manufacture non-NFA firearms without a license, provided you do not do so "for sale or distribution." Your state may impose additional restrictions.

(I believe it is also legal for non-licensed individuals to manufacture non-machinegun NFA items by filing a form 1 and paying the tax, but don't quote me on that.)

http://www.atf.gov/firearms/faq/firearms-technology.html#com...
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There are some caveats about piping SQL into psql:

http://petereisentraut.blogspot.com.au/2010/03/running-sql-s...
With approximately five minutes of conversation with Thomas I was able to write a ~30 line Ruby script which successfully compromised $A_THING_OF_IMMENSE_VALUE on a Rails app (my own, in staging) over the public Internet in a matter of seconds using no insider knowledge of that app's architecture.

Thomas is being oblique with regards to the implications of this for a reason.
Can't you disable zooming to solve that problem?
Yup, I knew that 2012 would the year when Linux on the Desktop finally took off. Gartner Hype curve blah blah blah.
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Wow, what an amazing post. Honest, sensitive, and very well written.
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Entirely agree. That video is the key to getting me to spend more time on the website. Without it, you might as well have a giant back button
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Good feedback. Thanks bdunn.
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When you say profit, do you really mean profit? What is one to make of those numbers in that spreadsheet? Surely there are hosting costs and processing fees that eat into that. Or do are those numbers figured after costs are taken into account?

In any case, I completely agree with everyone else here. Unless the 37Signals sites continue to link through to this site, it instantly loses at least 20-30% of it's value right off the bat. There is very little value in this site from an IP perspective. It appears that all the value comes from the existing user base and the publicity generated from 37Signals. I'm not going to discount the user base, that's obviously huge. But I'm not sure it's worth much without the 37Signals name behind it.

I have a hard time believing it would be worthwhile for them to hawk the site publicly just to fuck people over though, so I do take them at face value when they say that they believe it is worth that to them.
One negative about the self-driving car approach which is inherent to the approach is that most of the hard problems it has to solve come about from the fact that the driving environment is so chaotic, open and uncontrolled. Weather. Pedestrians. Jaywalkers. Animals. Kids. Shopping carts. Bad objects on the road. Other vehicles, many of which are human-driven. Or perhaps automated as well, but malfunctioning.

The obvious alternative approach is to create a transport system where the environment is more uniform, controlled, closed, stable. For example, a system of underground tunnels or above-ground tubes. With some kind of train or individual cabins that can move within it. Like subways but more advanced, efficient and end-to-end. Imagine a single common inter-locked system that everyone could use to do both their local daily commutes, and long distance travel, and round trips to orbital stations (via rides in carrier ships like Virgin Galactic is planning, or something like a space elevator.) There is one particular project like this that I've heard of, that has these qualities, called Evacuated Tube Transport. I like the idea of it. It sounds elegant and efficient and scalable. But has some challenges of its own. (Last mile access, industry pushback, safety/failsafe in the face of emergency situations, etc.) There's a specific company called ET3 which is supposedly trying to flesh out and build an implementation of it.
So 2012 is the year of linux on the desktop?
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I am in the current Bloc cohort (bloc.io), and I can tell you that I am learning much faster without a doubt. I was following the go it alone path for a few months prior, and was caught in the same situation described in this post. The Bloc guy's hybrid model of teaching (old/master-apprentice, new/online access) is excellent. It is way more efficient to have that direct feedback, and to have someone point you in the right direction.
Thanks for the feedback. As far as I can tell making the frontpage is about 85% dumb luck, 10% having a good title and 5% having good content, which is maybe why you don't see articles about it :)
Hover states are a big one. Also making call-to-action targets bigger for the less precise pointing device (ie, your users' fat fingers). Making sure you use Flash fall-forwards with HTML5 video/audio available for iPad / non-flash devices.

iPads and iPhones also have great support for CSS3 transforms (3D included with hardware acceleration), but some of the other "common" CSS3 and HTML5 technologies do bog down on the slower processor. Your average desktop may not have a dedicated video card and a browser with hardware acceleration, which creates a smaller intersection of features that will work with no brains on iPads and (generic) desktops.

The list, of course, goes on, and it will continue to grow with time. As with the well known deficiencies of IE (floating, clearing, zindex bugs, etc) however, the iPad caveats and corner cases are becoming more of a known quantity. As with IE, just takes a bit more planning.
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Yes, I do mean that. I will support modern browsers, but legacy stuff is additional (though not that much really).

I consider anything older than IE8 to be legacy.

On the other hand, if I put out a product that is aimed at the enterprise market then I will support older stuff. Enterprise moves at a different pace.

Story time: I once found myself working in the banking industry only to discover they used .NET 2.0. This on 2011.
They also had a bunch of Win2000 machines.
My job was to make a system that ran on all.

Pulled it off, but it opened my eyes to how big business works.
>That is a slanderous statement.

It would be libelous not slanderous, if it was actually defamatory.

Also you'll notice I said if you plan on manufacturing a firearm illegally you'll likely manufacture an automatic version--I never said you would do so.

>Shall I assume that you have a propensity for rape if I were to know you were not a virgin?

Since not being a virgin is not illegal, those are not analogous.

A better analogy would be something like: I assume you have a propensity for rape, if you have previously committed sexual battery.
The latest Ubuntu desktop is absolutely stunningly beautiful. The first time I saw it couldn't tell if it was an improved Windows 8 or some new release of Mac OS X. The fact is I think this may have a shot with the masses.

If the latest rumors of EA being in talks with Ubuntu are true, then if massively successful games start appearing for the platform, it may well signify a turning point for desktop Linux.

Here's hoping widespread desktop Linux finally becomes a reality. Well deserved for the amazing work Ubuntu has put into it.
Or Interactive Brokers for around ~$1 per trade. I think they are a Canadian company too, not just someone who offers Canadian accounts.
I have more trouble with Firefox than modern versions of IE.

I also have a Pentium III that's running Windows 7 and IE9 now (and will be able to upgrade to IE10), and if that can upgrade to IE9, it's utterly and completely disingenuous to claim that the "smallest fraction" of Windows users can upgrade to it. Instead of being rational, you come off as a sneering cheerleader and, y'know, that can entirely be your bag if you want to pick it up and run with it, but it'd help if you at least used your mouth for talking instead of parts down below.
I would be wary about trusting all connections from localhost. As vulnerabilities are many, getting a local unprivileged shell isn't exactly hard and as opening a socket connection isn't exactly a privileged operation.. you could expose yourself to a nasty bootstrap attack. Probably better to trust the local unix domain socket, and make it accessible by root only... if you really need it.
I for one would love to work on the IE team.
Damn, this author really doesn't listen to a lot of music. Greg Gillis has become the poster child for mashups, but mashups had been a part of the cultural zeitgeist for a long time before Girl Talk was discovered.

Just one famous example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grey_Album

This is to say nothing of all the heavy sampling in EDM in the last decade plus.
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In defense of the people making photo sharing websites, they are doing leaps and bounds more than the vast majority of the population.
In my experience, when someone says "dumb luck" what they really mean is "I have no clue how it happened and this leads me to believe A) no one else does either and B) it isn't possible to figure it out." Even if A happens to be true, B probably is not. ("Dumb luck" is something someone said in my archery class about what it took to hit the target. I could do it. He could not. I practiced two hours a day. He did not. I never saw the phrase the same way again.)

But thanks for the feedback.
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Can I just mention that at least on my phone, websites that "adapt" to landscape mode often bug the hell out of me. With my getting-old-eyesight, I often rotate to landscape mode to get bigger text so I can read it more easily. When a website goes "Oh look, more horizontal pixels, I'll shrink the middle column and add some nav on the left and ads on the right!"; I'll usually just hit [back] and move on to some other site.

(Possibly interesting idea: add some analytics so that you can detect portrait/landscape orientation changes, and report on bounce rates immediately afterwards…)
Sometimes I feel like an a book dedicated to start-up mood management would go a long way. It could just be interviews of founders focused on how they managed ups and downs mentally.

It could be of great aide to founders who haven't made it yet.
Could you give me some stats? I wouldn't expect a population to go and spend a lot of money on a CD to install Windows onto a marginally cheaper machine
Off-topic: Adioso sounds like the Spanish word for hateful (Odioso).

Might confuse people in Spanish speaking markets.
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I suggest you ask your 40+ year old users (or any users with less than 20/20 vision) about what they think of you disabling zooming on them…
Why would there need to be other people in the car? It would most likely work just like cabs, but without a driver. You tap a button on your mobile and a car pulls up already knowing where you are going.
One thing about working while in touch with others who are either already experienced, or learning the ropes with you- sometimes you can save yourself hours, days, or even weeks worth of wasted time trying to understand something you could understand in five minutes with anothers' input.
They are probably 'smoke testing' whether it's worthwhile to spend the effort making a video, based on the percentage of people that try to play it.
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The graphs/charts on this page do not really match up with the captions.

1) The second chart pretty clearly shows Wednesday as a higher volume day than Tuesday, and yet the caption reads "Tuesday and Thursday being the highest volume days."

2) Even worse, the caption on the third picture is completely off. The caption reads "Click Rates by Number of Links," but the text in the chart itself describes the number of clicks in terms of how many months a user has been subscribed.

What gives?
To be clear there are other startups in this round that aren't demoing/raising cash...
I'll think about it some more. I guess I "practice" in that I think about my titles and the good titles I've seen, and I try to write a fair amount, and I submit all of my posts to HN to try and get feedback. I've also been writing blog posts for five or six years now.
There is however no benefit in replacing a mylist.sort() with mylist = sorted(mylist), in fact it will use more memory.

Isn't that kind of a deal-breaker?
Marketing is SO much more than "telling the world about it". But yeah, it's nearly impossible to imagine a successful company without great marketing. Check Peter Thiel's thoughts on the topic (they are amazing):

http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/22405055017/peter-thiels...
I guess I also meant that, maybe there's some underlying chance a post I write will make the frontpage, but it's hard for me to predict in advance which ones will make it. Some of the posts I think are great fall off the 'new' page without an upvote.
If you have the proper technical background(the author says he does) then getting tips with a team is a most productive learning experience.

BUT.

If you do not have the proper theoretical background, then learning from peers without proper books and the "alone time" will most certainly turn you into a hack.

Even highly skilled coders like demoscene hackers and hardware specialists had to have some proper theoretical background. Linus Torvalds was in a good university and used Tanenbaum's books to later defy Tanenbaum himself. The fact is Linus didn't just crop out of nowhere and hacked Linux together, he had proper theory to go with his major league hacking foo.

Social interaction is great, fun and a wonderful way to learn and trade cards, but there is a time to code alone and it's a necessary one for you to improve.
hey minikomi, i would love to get in touch with you. some of your comments on here are very intriguing. what's the best way to get in touch?
They have hotels, although it isn't as core to the product as flights. I think the use case you describe and the KAYAK one are both valid uses cases of the site, you might though be right that shifting the focus to differentiate themselves could be a good idea.
I have the definite impression I am missing something, a HN meme perhaps?

"Video coming soon..." ??

Edit: Oh wait there is a video box on their main page which just shows the above text.
Our stories are even closer than you think. I looked for people like me in my college town, but it was a small city with few tech businesses (mostly state government contractors), so I didn't find much. Now that I've returned to coding, I decided to move out to San Francisco so that I could be a part of a larger community. I've been out here for just over a week now and I've already been to a conference and have an interview with a startup tomorrow. (Not as a developer, but still!) There are tons of meetups and interesting events out here, so I'm really optimistic about the future.
Particularly when you've been up for 3 days straight.
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Corin, That would be really funny if you were not from a country that didn't expressly outlaw firearms for the common man.

Also, in your vast experience over the last ~4 years as operations manager, I am sure that I should bow to your expertise over such situations where you are accused of illegal activity based on a comment on HN. I look forward to your council.

While you're a young person from the UK with little to no experience with either US law, culture, politics or history, I appreciate your input in this matter.

I would hope that you could do yourself a favor and look into the things I stated above. I could give you some referrences to the things I said, but I doubt you would use them as much as I doubt you would even look into anything I said.

I you find that you DO want to know some things that occurred not only prior to when you were 11, but also things that occurred decades before you were born, please let me know.

Seriously. There is a lot more to know, hopefully you wont acquiesce to what you think you know from the internet.
I saw an answer on here once about timing from someone who clearly spent scads of time here at the time. So I have reason to believe when something is posted matters and, also, who posts it matters. There are, no doubt, other factors. I would not know what they are.

Have a great evening.
And buying multiple versions of the iPad is also more expensive than a mac to run the simulator?
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I think around 70-80%; the product the Web app was supporting was targeting schools/non-profits and other demographics where IE usage is high.
The first car CD player (Philips DC-085, for the curious) cost $800 in 1987, or ~$1600 today dollars. Who knows how much money they spent on the prototypes.

These things will become affordable if the demand is there.
Alternately, you can use sameuser privs at the local socket level, which will allow unix user foo access to Postgres user foo without a password, but only on the domain socket. That's probably the best combination of ease of use and moderate security for a dev system.
And sorted() and reversed() behave differently (return different object classes) while mylist.sort() and mylist.reverse() do. In that way it's also confusing.

The modify-in-place method does seems more natural when you do want the destructive updating case.
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