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The F-14 served its purpose. You might say, well, there was never any opposing navy that even thought about making air attacks on an American fleet when the F-14 was in service, but my answer to that is "exactly". The whole point of an overwhelming advantage is that no one ever challenges it.
This is what it feels like to be me and I'm a male programmer. I get slightly different responses of course. Like "that's not smart; why do you need to know that?" and it has affected my self esteem during my entire career. When I've run against the same wall for hours and repeatedly received this response from co-workers, I finally decide to monopolize their time for half an hour explaining the problem. And we discover I was indeed headed down the right path and Mr. MoreExperienceThanYou didn't know the answer anyway. Nothing quite so frustrating as a group of "experienced" people jumping on the "n00b" and telling them that they're on the wrong path only to discover the neck-beard-wannabes couldn't think past their own limited codebase.

The industry is full of ego. And I've have to learn to code alone to avoid working with assholes.
I support whatever my client needs. They pay, I code. End of story.
True, it's really just a spin. It's a benefit for most of our users because we can use the time more productively to improve the product and support in other ways. In the zero sum game of the 24 hour day, an hour saved is an hour earned.
One thing I hate is websites that block me from trying to use a site based on my browser. Give me a stern warning and let me use at my own risk. I'm not defending IE this has happened just as much in firefox and chrome for me.

I applied for a job recently that wanted me to take a test that required IE and windows. I passed on the job because that test was a fail.
Yeah, potentially, but you're not going to reach the efficiency of a train as long as you have individual cars with a bunch of different use cases/designs.
Agree with the previous sentiment-this seems geared towards showcasing a cool tech demo rather than the teachers themselves. Put the scrantron scanning upfront, as that's the main draw and detail the painless process to do it.
On the flip side, I'm a parent of four who would jump on this as a way to reduce from two to one cars while also reducing the pain of ferrying kids around to school, lessons, practice, recitals, etc.

True self-driving (as opposed to "licensed driver paying attention but not needing to hold the wheel") will be adopted very quickly.
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Also, I approve of a future where ordinary people can travel without fear of fabricated botherment by the police. Driving a car has got to be the number one excuse for the USA's police to pull over and antagonize folks on the thinnest imaginable (or no) probable cause.
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That's a valid choice, assuming your userbase is similar to the one in this article.
It is interesting reading this from my perspective as I am in the Melbourne tech/startup scene and have met all these guys at various events, and have even worked with one of them. From the outside Adioso has always looked like the shining beacon of what can be accomplished building startup while living in our wonderful city. The reality of course is so much more.

The obvious take away from this post and something I have already experienced first hand, is the difficulty of raising and networking this far away from the valley. Locally we just don't have the investor or talent pools to draw on and finding people with the right attitude for a startup is very difficult.

Thanks for the epic candid post Tom and I am looking forward to the next instalment!
> This is really interesting. I'm planning my own limited invite-only beta rollout. However, this isn't the first time I heard it's a time-waster. Does anyone else have opinions on this?

Yes. Don't do it.

One of the biggest problems you're going to have at the get-go is finding people who actually give a shit about your product/service. Adopting an invite-only system attaches a huge negative filter to this problem: you are making it more difficult for prospective users to discover and use the product.

There's one very important caveat to this:

If you are relatively well-known and already have a large number of people following your blog, twitter or other web presence a invite-only system can make sense. Google can do invite-only because they can command millions of eyeballs through a simple press release. You are probably not Google.

When you are a somebody an invite-only system feels like an exclusive club that can create buzz & desire. When you are a nobody an invite-only system feels arbitrary and frustrating. You are probably a nobody.
You're right. My recent encounters with IE9 have been pleasantly surprising (and I bet IE10 will be quite competitive), but for us the numbers are so low that, at least for now, a broad sweep feels OK.
This post, short and to the point, is excellent as a thought-provoker. I am currently struggling with finding ways to keep the noise level down, due the number of hats I wear and the large number of systems, and people, competing for my attention and time.

I am, simultaneously, running my own startup, doing freelancing development work for clients, and running the Infrastructure Consulting arm of another successful small company. That's all not to mention running my own personal sites and web projects. Each of these positions result in my getting a HUGE deluge of email, automated alerts, and spam - every single day.

I've tried a number of different methods for reducing noise, and none of them have worked very well for me yet. I tried setting up folder routing rules in Outlook - it resulted in my missing a couple of key alerts for client systems which resulted in very unhappy clients asking me, "Aren't you guys monitoring our systems..." when they had to call to let me know their critical systems were down.

I've tried scheduling set times during the day for email (and ignoring it outside of those times) and, while this has been my most successful method to date, it still just makes me dread the Email Hour in the morning and the other one in the Afternoon - resulting in my subconsciously finding excuses to skip "Email Hour"...

If any of my fellow HN'ers have suggestions in this regard, I'd love the feedback!
I ended up showing the website to my wife (a former K-12 Teacher with a special ed/restraint endorsement in the Commonwealth of Kentucky), who is now working on her Doctorate in Education.

Her initial reaction was, "think of how much this is going to save the schools in budget and in time!", followed by "I wonder how much this is going to cost a district." Locally, the schools here are spending less than 10K/year on software for teachers, and that amount gets cut back a little bit each year: Teachers are frequently purchasing (or pirating) software for use in their classroom when they find software that has educational or productive merit. Your biggest hurdle will probably be getting the price points set correctly...but with that said...the wife loves it and went to show it off to a few of her friends who are still in the public educational system here who claimed it was, 'neat' and even a self-admitted technophobe mentioned that it looked better than the system that they're currently using.

Good job and great work -- this has a lot of potential to be a gamechanger for teachers.
Keep ploughing in for growth Tom. You'll get there. Its part of startup life cycle.
does this have any issues when you have 2-part authentication configured for Gmail? Well, I guess I'll find out in a second and report back :)
Looks like this is WebKit only. Any chance that jQuery.keyframe.js could have vendor prefix support for Firefox, Opera & IE, similar to libs/request_animation_frame.js ?
Every sheet of paper uniquely identifies the student and assignment. One thing we're going to do to make this less annoying is to remember the order the students' assignments were faxed in and just print it backwards the next time the teacher hits print.

Nothing is in place to handle the unfortunate way children choose to transport their homework at the moment; what we do have is that our recognition tech is fairly robust (it handles fax).

Further we've discussed methods of inferring who an unreadable assignment might belong to or having the teacher just step in and view the broken images themselves and do that part by hand.

It's not something we've invested a whole lot of time in figuring out yet, but something we know we will have to think about in the near future.

And in regards to MTurk, yes, we've considered it and romanced the idea of using it for free response type questions.

Our mission is to introduce technology into the classroom. We have computer/tablet based solutions now, but the classroom is currently still in a place where paper and pencil are king. But when they evolve, so will we. :)
No, he is not implying that.

P = APICopyrightable
Q = APICopied # infringingly

Trial is trying to evaluate "P and Q". Judge does not want to evaluate "P" (lazy evaluation?), so he rewrote expression to "Q and P" hoping to short-circuit.
I doubt that is specific to programming or really about ego. In the movie "Erin Brokovich", Erin gets treated that way when she asks questions. It turns out they most likely did not answer her because they had no explanation and it was just convenient to treat her like she was stupid rather than admit they were.
I work in a large business, and every single time someone has to do a presentation with slides, they do it wrong. They create the slides, put in all the content they want to show, then write the talk.

The best slides are ones that are created after the talk. It makes you actually think about what you want to say, and how to represent that the best.
Thanks! I guess it's not immediately apparent, the application itself is free.

Our monetization strategy comes from content (we sell third party content in our store similar to Apple's App Store). This is still in the pipeline, however.
I saw a Google Self-Driving car on 280 in the Bay Area about a month ago with 2 people in it. I guess they already have the license for California?

As a side note, I (illegally) took a video of it with my iPhone as I passed by it, but when I tried uploading it to Facebook it was denied twice because I used a copyrighted song as the background (Cars by Devo and then an obscure version of Crosstown Traffic by Living Color, which I thought would have passed the algos but I guess not).
It really makes you wonder how many of the other shining beacons are also working their asses off to stay afloat. Probably, nobody has it easy.
Coding alone can be hard for anyone. I liked this article because I know there are countless men and women who feel this way. It seemed like a good cross gender way of explaining some of the frustrations of not fitting in the club. don't give up!
A Less experienced programmer does not necessarily mean a bad programmer. Its a myth that the best programming team consists solely of rockstar ninjas. I have worked on teams that consisted entirely of very very good programers and it resulted in a-lot of friction because everybody had there own philosophies and approaches to solving problems. This becomes more true the larger the team gets. I think the best team is a mix of skill and experience mixed with youthful exuberance.
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A great place to keep all your programming bookmarks and find the best bookmarks in the community.
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If I'm allowed to design my dream laptop, I'd make it have

- a 13 inch 1080x1920 screen

- two video outputs (for when its docked)

- an SSD for the OS and my tools

- an average hard disk for my data

- a good keyboard

- enough memory

- a camera and audio

- 3G data (or better)

- Bluetooth for the keyboard and trackpad when it's docked.

And the rest of it would be a humongous battery. And power it with an Atom-class processor so that the battery lasts a day. Leave the software alone.

Make it pretty.
Absolutely. We do dev work on the side, and in those cases take our orders on browser support.
there are several ways to reach compliance; not having the information is just the easiest
I think the guys at Adioso are on to something potentially cool.

But after reading this blog post and checking out their site, the only three words on my mind are "Video coming soon..."
After reading the "sales pitch" I instantly had the same thought as the customer you quoted did. It really shows they are trying to make money out of something that no one wants IMO.
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Have been using this website for a few months now. Such a great place to keep all the links about learning how to program (or getting better) that I accumulate over the months and years.

Also great to browse others' codemarks to see what other people are reading/learning.
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Well, I think Win7 has larger market share than Vista.
it carries a thoroughly positive connotation with it, though, as suggested by the 「歓」。
> A perfect robot driver with a working car is one thing, but can that driver handle hydroplaning/tire blowouts/transmission failures?

Much, much better than any human. Robots fail only once. A single robot being programmed ("getting practice") for a failure case is all robots getting that practice for a failure case. Also, robots are always vigilant and ready for failures, and are capable of doing emergency decisions in fractions of a second, before the humans would likely even know something is wrong.
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... if you want to pay with bank account and allow some small startup to charge it w/o you having any control over it or any way to dispute the charge with your bank
Is there something intrinsic to the WebKit versions on iOS products, or are your problems more general, i.e. learning how to support "limited" devices again (relatively small CPU, GPU, memory)?

What is it about the iPad 1 & 2 that is giving you so many more problems compared to the iPad 3?

I found I was spending way more time on IE bugs with Web app I recently did (~1000 users/month) than any other browser by far.
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The wide ranging impacts will be huge, as well as the unintended consequences. I actually think the first thing to go will be truck drivers. There are some social obstacles for regular cars, but once automated driving has proven itself it's only a matter of time until the shipping/delivery industry says "wait I can have 24/7 drivers that have less accidents per million miles than the ones that can only do 11 hour days?" Just this one case has crazy implications: 3.5 million jobs lost in a short time span, but you can order from amazon at 6pm and have at it your doorstep before you wake up, all of the trucks can drive at exactly optimal fuel efficiency, all businesses that rely on truckers will likely go under, do you need distribution centers when you have cheap, never sleeping drivers? this will take consume enormous amount of energy... and I'm sure you can think of more just for that one case.

Personally I think the biggest impact this will have is the energy usage one. Currently we stress about our abilities to meet future demands, but we aren't stressed enough to really innovate. Automated driving will definitely change that.
Also see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3784750
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I believe HN had a story linked a few months ago where supporting IE was specified as a separate line item in the budget, forcing their clients to really contemplate the costs (in both time & money) supporting such a broken browser family. If that's what you mean, then kudos, as I think it's a great learning moment for clients.
While I agree, they're such a huge target, and so reviled amongst open types like yourself, I tend to take the more conservative angle on them: If they were really so insidious, there'd be more smoking guns. More scary activities.

As it stands, Facebook does what it does pretty well: gives people a place to communicate with each other. The walls of their interactions have a lot of holes, and you hear them complain, and you certainly see Facebook toe the line, but I think they've mastered that sport, especially as they approach 1 billion users.
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> Canonical will be opening their first Beijing office this year

> At more than 200 Dell stores in China, there is Ubuntu branding present and Dell China employees knowledgeable about Ubuntu Linux.

One of the things I noticed when I went to download Precise Pangolin is that there's a "Chinese Ubuntu" link featured prominently at the bottom of the page[0]. It looks like they've made China a primary target market, since the vast majority of Windows users there are running pirated copies and cannot afford to pay for a legitimate copy.

0: http://www.ubuntu.com/download
Yes, We're interested in this area. We're creating Saasly.com that mines your inbox for invoices/bills from SaaS vendors and presents you with information about how much you're paying for different services.

Here's the link to the original thread:
http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3901164

If you're interested in what we're building, sign up at Saasly.com:
http://saasly.com
What percentage of PCs ship with FreeDOS? And how's that indicator of the popularity of the FreeDOS system?

Most of Ubuntu preinstalls won't even live to boot. A shame really.
You are correct that it's not limited to our industry. I run into these kinds of people in many other places in my life. And if I've ever needed to spend any amount of time working with them, I prefer to work alone, interacting only when absolutely necessary.

As to Erin Brokovich, she's an excellent example of confidence without ego. It's been difficult for me to cultivate confidence in the presence of others - I was never actually encouraged as a child (sometimes passively discouraged- "why would you want to do that? plenty of other people are doing that.") And apparently it's not common practice to encourage each other as adults.
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Yes, it can also be translated as "pleasant talk."
We're in a similar position, except that we did recently drop the money for a new iPad. FWIW, it's actually a nice piece of kit, as long as you don't mind playing by Apple's rules of course.

However, the browser idiosyncracies drive me nuts, and we spent considerable time not just updating all our graphics but also redoing way too many different parts of our HTML, CSS and JavaScript in order to get the high-res images to display properly and to have the correct version of each image download efficiently on both Retina and lower resolution displays.

Not all of this is Apple's fault. Some of it comes from limitations in the current HTML and CSS specs, which would apply to high-res displays on Android devices as well. But some of it seems to be entirely due to choices in how iOS Safari does things, and the problems aren't limited to high-res images.

I'm still not entirely happy with many of the solutions we are using. I think we have a practical workaround for most of the issues, but often the results behind the scenes are just nasty and hacky. And as you say, it has been vastly more work than supporting IE9, which required approximately zero extra effort.
Does Microsoft have a group that does nothing but rebrand their services? I can see a rebrand of one product once in a while, but they've been making a habit of it.
>These stores also do not have the right equipment to allow the use of smart cards, credit cards embedded with computer chips that are much less susceptible to fraud.

It seems they're referring to 'chip and PIN' cards as well as NFC.
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You know, I saw when this website was posted earlier.

I think it's awesome you provide both faxing and scanning interfaces.

I had two questions:
1. Where are you based? Why don't you have a snail mail address on your website? It's not even clear you are based in the U.S.

2. On a more stat based note: When you analyze the data, are you merely analyzing the students, or are you providing IRT analysis for the test questions themselves? Do you provide support for A/B testing of test types, or dynamic testing in your online interface?

Because to me, those are things your average teacher can't do, but knowing how well each question and each test assesses students modeled as a function of student ability means that your assessments aren't just easier, but can be made better at measuring ability.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Item_response_theory
Is it possible to get powertop2 on Linux Mint? I can't even find a source download; their alleged source repo at git.moblin.org seems to be down. Going to that domain gives me a "502 Bad Gateway" error.

Edit: ah, "git clone git://git.moblin.org/powertop powertop2" works.
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Thanks!
I feel much the same way as Gabriel does, in this post.

The method of using email as a sort of alert queue is a terribly broken system. Yes, it's a system that I have to deal with every day. Yes, I get 100-200+ emails a day, between alerts and recoveries... often of which are rolled up in "alert packages", which are just as useless.

There needs to be a separation for all the to-do list, alert-spam, bullshit that typically ends up in my email inbox. I'd really love it if I could get back to using my email, ya know, like an electronic replacement for mail. Little communications or thought out letters. Not this inundation of crap that I currently deal with.

The startup that fixes this, wins.
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There are definitely oddities about how iOS Safari does things. Handling orientation changes and using high-resolution images for the devices with Retina displays are repeat offenders.
FWIW: I was one of the most adorable 3 year olds in the history of the universe and a bit of a social butterfly. It helped me not one whit with such things. I still get told "you can't do that!" to which I often feel like replying "you keep using that word. Given I have already done it, I do not think it means what you think it means."

You have likely heard of "Imposter Syndrome". Excess competence might be part of your problem.
Will you pay a commission if someone brings you a buyer? The buyer would still pay $480,000 and the commission would come out of that.
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Just rename their libre office to Word and Excel. I've tried it with 2 relatives and so far it's working, no complaints :)
I wrote a blog few weeks ago on social impact of self driving cars. Please check it out and suggest other significant changes that are not listed.

http://neurographs.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/social-impact-of...
Im all for startup Chile succeeding, but quite a few of these companies are merely concepts with webpages..this wouldnt fly in the US...even at some bschool pitch competitions. The startup Chile folks, while their heart is in the right place, have some work to do- before you can publicize a startup incubator globally, you might want to learn proper english.