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I think only GIMP would say GIMP 2.8 is here! And yet there isn't a Windows installer for it.

If I were them, I would have waited a few days and gotten the Windows installer together first.
But a lot more expensive
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This may make mass lawsuits difficult but I wonder if this means anything from an individual harassment perspective. I guess the next question is this (if someone can shed light on this from a legal perspective):

Is detection of copyright infringement through or from an IP address enough to get a warrant issued that allows searching of the devices belonging to the individual using that IP address (or happens to be connected to the internet through that IP address)?
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I don't see any lawyers involved.
I thought that a little off, too. But, I know nothing about her except for (a) her work (which I've long admired), and (b) that she used to be a man. Perhaps she is generally known just not to care what people might think about (b).

That said, I would have left the photo out myself...
I think the preceding sentences provide a bit more context. They were aiming for low power, in order to fit into inexpensive but low tolerance plastic packaging.

However, it was a surprise to find they'd exceeded their target by an order of magnitude.
Ask HN: Life advice for a young hacker?
Hi everyone,

I recently graduated highschool. I was accepted to a really great university, but I'm deferring admission for a year because I got a great job in the Bay Area with a startup that I think is doing really awesome things.

I'm extremely lucky that everything has worked out for me the way it has, but I'm not writing this to brag. I could really use your general life advice for living on one's own and being part of a startup, because I've never done either one before.

Please help me learn from your mistakes or successes.

Please assume I know nothing.

Please, give me your advice.

-- youngandscared
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You're kidding yourself if you think you can't pack productivity into 40 hours worth of work a week. Some people have this notion that their job is so important that the work they're doing can't be put off til tomorrow. Certainly, in some seats, emergencies arise, but by and large, you should never have to work more than 40 a week at your 9-5.
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I will have to respectfully disagree with pg here. Going public usually involves getting quite a bit richer by some multiple of the original value.

In a hot IPO market you generate what Adam Smith(a pseudonym) called "Supermoney" in the late 1960s.

A company which catches public's fancy can generate market values hugely over what the company would be worth in a private sale(think NFLX, think AMZN, most likely Facebook shares and so on). The liquidity and with it coming diversification is a nice plus but not the sole reason.

Of course, the company can fall from grace at some point, but even then it retains a premium over what it would be worth as a private company. This is almost by definition, otherwise the company does get taken private.
Why would he need such a large cache of weapons? Is Belize really that dangerous?
Search /is/ an experience, and it always has been. Google is just making that experience suck lately.

UX is the most important feature. Canonical example: Apple. Apple "gets" usability. No other pc manufacturer comes close. Their methods are dubious and I don't agree with all of them, but their stuff works nicer than anything else right now (for the latest number of lay people.)

Other pc mfgs don't even try to design beautiful, elegant hardware and market it to everyone. They think that everyone wants cheap crap, so they deliver and iterate on that. All of Apple's offerings are premium, and you can't argue with their success. /people want nice stuff, not cheap plastic crap/ -- but it gets harder and harder to find nice stuff outside of Apple.

Who still makes a laptop with a 1920x1200 display? Apple. HP and Lenovo did too last I checked, but the industry has largely moved to the cheaper-and-worse 16x9 panels. Apple also cares about obvious stuff that other mfgs ignore. Example: trackpad texture. Even on a $3500 gaming laptop from a specialty mfg, they don't get it and the trackpad is too grippy and hurts your finer after 5 minutes.

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Well over the longer period it will bring more people into the career. Economic issues work on the scale of years. But I assure you that if you start paying more now you'll see more people entering in 6 years (ie. you'll catch the attention of people in the middle of highschool and then when they pop out of uni they are yours for the hiring).
Yes, they're wrong, because they make certain classes of errors impossible to catch automatically, and place that much heavier a burden on me to use the tool. You can do what you like in private, but forcing me to waste my mental energy because it makes you feel good about yourself to be able to manage lots of complicated trivia? Should I be accepting if you wanted me to use a hammer with a spike on the side of the handle?
It fixes the shortage if you're the company having a hard time filling a position and you offer more money than anybody else. That's the basic premise of a market.
We've built our team around the idea that, you pay people enough so that money isn't an issue and then move on. The main focus is on creating a positive work environment and doing our best to keep moving forward with new and interesting work. As a result we have a great team who are generally positive go-getters even in rough times.

We've had a couple people here who were soley motivated by money which stuck out like a sore thumb and ultimately didnt last.
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Or, treat me like I'm an investor (which I am) and you're a startup (which you are).
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Oh, I want to add one more thing, since everyone seems to like my comment.

You can pay me too much money.

If you give me say, a million dollars a year, I will work for one year, and then you will never see me again. I will go home and live my life as I please, and only code what I want to code. The code may or may not make money. I may or may not try.

If I work at a startup that cashes out big, then I will travel the world, settle in the tropics, and you will not see me again. If someone acquired us as a way of acquiring talent, they will be sorely disappointed.
I've seen this too. One company I worked for had a product that was deployed too soon. We as a dev team decided it was time to roll it out when it wasn't. Our fault. This created a crisis mode. It was a rush - live editing code on production servers to save an engineer rollout (nature of the product was one mistake locked us out of the box), seeing small fixes improve conversion by noticable amounts (or reduce the call queue significantly), etc. Bad engineering practice, but it made me understand the cowboy appeal, and I don't think I want to do it again.

However, this resulted in a bit of crisis addiction, followed by burnout. However, the CEO learned that crisis mode was a death march motivator. Suddenly it turned into crisis-this and crisis-that. Every small feature was a "drop everything we'll lose customers" crisis. It started wearing pretty quick. At some point he dropped the crisis act and just stated flatly that "your terms of employment state that you will work as needed, i need you now" the day before I had scheduled time off, and the "crisis" was getting a new feature complete for shipping in a year. Needless to say I got a new job.

Basically, I agree with clavalle - crisis mode if not used exceedingly sparingly can lead to a new set of expectations that will chew up a dev team.
While there are exceptions, you generally need the research merit badge - a PhD. If it's something you seriously want to do, consider entering grad school.
Good developers know that writing code is only 1/10th of the work. Then you have to test it, write automated tests, support it, maintain it, etc, etc.

I have contributed to open source before. I often have time/energy to write the original patch, but not enough to write tests and whatnot. Rather than feeling good about my contribution, I typically feel guilty about not supporting the change as much as I should. That feeling of guilt leads to hesitation every time I see an opportunity to contribute.

tl;dr: laziness
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This may be a two edged sword.

It also means that collecting data based on your IP is not an invasion of privacy. With IPv6 there is the potential for much finer grained assignment of IP addresses to such an extent that an IP address could become uniquely identified with an individual more readily than today.
Funny how people allready say EU countries instead of countries in Europe.
The problem with this is viewable on freelancer.com and other sites. Once you can be sure a coder will do good work remotely, then you can get a coder to do some work from anywhere on the planet, and those who have a much lower cost of living will happily undercut those who dont.

It may be the single biggest driver against the growth of cities.
Our CS depatartment, like many others, has a senior project class. Students have no input on what their project will be or who it will be for. They generally tend to be projects sponsored by a gov't organization that shelves the project once it's finished.

I'm unaware of any financial arrangement that may occur when sponsoring a project, but it is literally incomprehensible to me why something could not be run like Google SOC so at least the community could benefit from our work. Students aren't being exposed to FOSS projects, so they're less likely to contribute after graduation.
Interesetingly enough, if you read on about more current cases it mentions Sony vs Connectix, which I thought Connectix lost, but actually the ruling was overturned on appeal.

From the ruling:
"Some works are closer to the core of intended copyright protection than others. Sony's BIOS lay at a distance from the core because it contains unprotected aspects that cannot be examined without copying. The court of appeal therefore accorded it a lower degree of protection than more traditional literary works."

Thus one could try to make the same case for Skype.
How long is "long enough" for a free game?
Looks like it's the same setup as Cardiff Castle; most likely run by the local council. These kinda one-off places are what will hopefully be easily added when I open up event/place submission to users; which I'm hoping to get up in the next week or so :)
$$ gets you more programmers, not necessarily good ones.

Just look at dot com era (if you're old enough to remember). Tons of money, thrown at everybody and anybody. The vast majority of which were not "good" programmers. Many weren't even programmers just good at faking it, till they made it.
Sounds like you're saying judges are corrupt and dont care if they have proof or not?
Parent says "What if the business's purpose is to provide an open suburban hotspot?"

You say: "excuses that would easily fool a computer probably won't fool a judge for a second any more than it would fool a guy on the street."

I don't think it comes across as an excuse although prosecution would of course present it that way.

There is certainly instances where someone would provide an open hotspot for neighbors. (My neighbor at one building did this.) I don't think it would be difficult at all for this to be shown by any defense attorney after some research with examples of kind people doing the same. I don't think this is as open and shut as you are presenting it. And that is the job of a defense attorney to try to make things appear possible by presenting evidence of the practice (which doesn't have to be widespread either.)
Does anyone know of a cheap and simple SMS only GSM modem?

All the ones I have used were expensive industrial spec units with complex data channels.
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pedantic precision should be common for a programmer. This is really easy, he could have said, "I will only work overtime in exceptional cases, and those should be very rare." This is what I usually say in interviews.

"under no circumstances will I work overtime" has a very clear meaning.
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One of those tools where it works well for its intended purpose, but also has additional unintended utility. =)
Sure, I recently wrote a program in C to process a lot of data and consciously made the decision not to go multicore because I figured extra cache misses and mutexing/spinlocking while data was passed across queues wouldn't justify the additional CPU cycles I was getting for that particular problem.

I'm primarily a Java guy but am capable of switching to C, writing decent code there, and making decisions like that. Someone who refuses to use Java because it's too "corporate" might be a better C programmer than me but they're not a better programmer.

Take a look at the code in java.util.concurrent sometime, specifically the inner Sync classes. If that's insufficiently "hardcore" for you, I don't know what to say.
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I just saw a add of a firm that wants to get a clojure programmer wiht a Ph.D. in robotics, computer vision or something around there. I got the first part down at least :)
Scrolling won because it doesn't require typesetting (or its web analog); not worrying about page length makes publishing easier; and scrolling provides a consistent user interface in a way that digital paging does not (e.g. links versus tabs versus "next" buttons).
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You can hack this module: http://finch.am/projects/arduinogsm/ $25

OR you can buy this arduino shield: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9607 $100
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I have heard that "Money is not everything. But make sure you have enough of it before you talk such nonsense"
No; we have run out of the type of companies that can both encourage innovation AND provide the resources (money and time) to get good ideas transformed into great products to put on the market.

Modern software is built in two week sprints and emotionally abandoned as soon as it barely works.
The data are right on. Good stuffs Alex :).
I am sick and tired of the experience/possession paradigm that infects all consumer happiness research. Yes, all the evidence so far supports it. But, all the research so far has been looking for ways to support the paradigm.

I don't buy experiences, and I don't buy possessions. I buy camping gear, musical instruments and other experiential possessions. But, this concept is lost on consumer researchers, who skew young, female and IMHE, assume the whole world is choosing between a pair of shoes or nice restaurant meal.

(FWIW, I just got my masters in research psychology.)

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What if you did the work for free, but the company would have to pay you for your work if they liked the results, even if they ultimately did not hire you?

Wouldn't that still be better than working on some contrived game that has no real-world relevance for free?
Relying on a scraper is a nasty way to do business. Registrars change their admin interface all the time - your service will constantly be breaking, often at inconvenient times. Rather bad for you if you've already taken someone's money.

I could see putting a person or two in a call center in Manila, giving them instructions on how to set CNAME records at the major registrars, and then charging people a fixed fee for help with this stuff. To get leads, you could offer the Tumblrs / Weeblys / etc. of the world a kickback to promote your service in your admin interface, through a 'Get low-cost expert help with this' link in their documentation.

After the call center's up and running, you can decide if you want to build scrapers to make your call center even more efficient, although I doubt it'd be worth the hassle.
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I know it's "just" an arduino talking to another PC .. but after doing some drilling, soldering, glueing, screwing and general arduino-ing myself ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Rj-NegE6E ) well done on actually getting something designed, done and "ready". If you inspire one person to pick up an arduino then that's compliment enough !
Huawei GTM900

Has serial port which takes AT commands. Easy enough to drive it.

Costs $20 a shot.
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Thanks. Are there still more entity character encodings left? I had a fight with Wordpress and it took some time to get everything working properly.
That's just saying that companies cannot value the contributions of salespeople vs "non-sales". Which is isomorphic to "companies cannot correctly value non-sales employees" anyway. You're not arguing with the case, just restating a corrolary.

Between salespeople, you can certainly tell who is making more money than their peers.
I think strategy/tactics for getting initial users depends on what you're selling and who you're selling to.

Best advice I can give would be to figure out who needs this the most, find someone like that in your area, and start a dialogue with them. 1-on-1 selling definitely isn't scalable, but you can ask them things like 'how do you find out about new services you can use for your business', 'what blogs/news sources do you read', 'who's an influential person in your line of business' etc... Once you have this info it will be obvious (hopefully) where you should be focusing your attention.

Reading up on lean startup methodology (if you haven't already) would help get you up to speed on this sort of process. Good luck!
Could the standard allow you to use the language and claim that you are following the standard and not copying the API?
I feel the same way...but only from a privacy implications point of view. Internet addiction, new fangled tools etc doesn't phase me in the least as long as I can maintain control over it.

One of the reasons why this whole "app" movement unnerves me a bit. There is no way of really knowing what these apps are doing with my info & when it will come back to haunt me.
So, in my experience, one of the big issues with the Java ecosystem is that you've got to use all these frameworks and tooling and all this other stuff in an enterprise setting (and once you scale, you're enterprise). This is somewhat abhorrent to systems guys/C neckbeards because, honestly, it reduces your role to cleverly linking together AbstractPipeEnterpriseBeanVisitorFactory objects.

Moreover, once you scale, you get big money, and then you hire IBM or Oracle or whoever to come in with consultants and give you the bespoke blessed Java stack. I have a friend in ecommerce right now (who is also an excellent low-level neckbeard) and his company bought top-of-the-line storage and things just to support the log spew from this stuff.

This isn't wrong, mind you...it's just that, at some point, it's better to just spend money on bigger iron, and then the neckbeards say "Fuck, this is boring and dumb" and leave for a challenge elsewhere.
4) Doing interesting work but not being able express that to prospective developers.
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maybe you should start your own company?

seems to me you chaff quite a bit about being a "wage slave"
If it doesn't have to be SMS only, there are various mass market "surf sticks" offered by providers on the cheap, marketed at laptop owners and the like. Many of them are just AT modems with serial ports tunneled through USB and then controlled by an application on the computer.
Honestly, I wonder what would have happened if any other company bought them instead of Zynga. I imagine that it wouldn't be dropping users quite as quickly.

It still would drop users, because the game itself isn't that deep. But I don't think it would be shedding users nearly as much as they are currently.
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And yet, somehow we've created science and a pretty large civilization by being able to argue points rationally and logically and not always being convinced solely by rhetoric. So my counterpoint to your "it does not reliably answer..." is the fact that we are having this argument on the fucking internet.

That's why this system relies on convincing smart, educated people and not just people in general. The need for intellectual discourse to avoid this exact problem and what that looks like is taught as part of being educated.
Why is it funny? Not all countries in Europe are in the EU.
I think there is also an issue of ignorance. Developers get caught up in the immediacy of their need, do a cursory search for something that fits, then roll their own if it is not immediately found. There are many open source projects that would be extended if developers found them at their time of need. The open source project has to lie somewhere between "this is perfect" and "this will save me so much time with only minor modification."

Github is helping to change this search problem, but there is much room for improvement. The less time it takes to find exactly what they need, the more likely they will find a project for possible contribution. (Obviously, this ignores the somewhat larger problem -- knowing what you need.)
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I realize they are sold by weight, but I'll be honest, the full size merchandise is worth more to me. It is even worse on cereal, my wife saves the end of the box for me because i'll eat it. I prefer the full size, but throwing out the 'fluff' (crushed bits and powder at the end) seems like a waste.
Austrian (currently self-employed) developer here. You are mostly right, except that:

Employees are not impossible to fire, that's a myth. There was this big Siemens layoff some years ago where several hundred developer lost their job, just because Siemens decided they are not into software anymore. Also, it is common to pressure people into signing mutual "job quit contracts" (don't know a better word).

How did you get screwed in Austria? I haven't been screwed yet, but I'm not doing much contract work in Austria anyways.
I've seen firsthand that the Internet has done a great deal to relieve the social isolation of the elderly and the housebound (physical ailments or social anxiety).