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Apple II came to mind as a piece of technology that was so awesome and beyond its time

Well... So the last man standing from the 8-bit days tells us (I mean Apple, not Jobs himself obv). But in truth, the C64 gave a lot more bang for the buck, esp. when you include the price of disk drives! And was just as hackable, etc. Similarly, the ST and Amiga were much more powerful and cheaper and more hackable than contemporary Macs. The Jackintosh was the first machine to deliver 1Mb of memory for under $1000. I just think we need to keep things in the proper perspective. Apple made and indeed makes some great products. But it's also true that they smothered technically superior but not as well commercially managed competitors. History is written by the winners.
When I bought a car, I read mine and they weren't surprised or upset. They patiently waited while I read it and initialed that I had done so.
I the first time I closed on a house, realizing ten minutes in that either I was going to be signing contracts without reading them, or everyone was going to be sitting around watching me read for three hours. There's a lot of pressure in a situation like that, even though I try never to sign anything without reading it.
Stallmsn didn't say it was 3000 pages long.
There are a few things I'm looking for in a task management system. Those of you who remember IWantSandy when it was still around will have a good idea of the feature set I'm looking for, plus a few things.

Haven't yet found something that ticks all of the boxes..

* Easy task entry with natural language
Do thing with Dick and Jane at Location tonight at 6:30 pm and every week on thursday (Sandy was the undisputed queen of this)

* Truly cross platform (Needs a web interface, and an identical native interface on Win/Mac/Lin, and a mobile interface which isn't tied to the web)

* A CLI would be nice but isn't super necessary (ala Taskwarrior)

A couple of my favorite systems get one or two things right really, really welll but then fall flat elsewhere. I'd use Omnitask everywhere except it's completely mac specific, and therefore useless for my needs. Seriously. I would give almost anything to have Omnitask on Windows. Wunderlist isn't bad at all, but isn't terribly stable on the native client, have to enter everything the old fashioned way though. Taskwarrior is my go-to in a *NIX environment but, again, useless anywhere else.

I'm currently using Todoist, which has a decent web interface and mobile client, with semi-decent NLP task entry, and it's doing okay for me now.

I'm very, very seriously open to suggestions here. Asana looks absolutely beautiful, but it's another Mac-Web specific product, so wouldn't work for me.
http://www.google.com/patents/US5730155
Either way because it's a License and not a Contract, by default you have no rights to use the software.
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I'm guessing many people's first response to this situation in real life would be to call out to coworkers - hey can anyone read this?, yet most of us would stick to the solo problem solving mechanics in our answer - search the # online, ocr + babelfish, call the number cold, whatever.

I understand fermi tests are intended to show broad problem solving abilities, but imho, these tests are for lazy people. Talk to a candidate for 20 minutes. If you can't tell if he/she is suited for the role, or at least for a follow up interview, one of you is not qualified.
Historically, in the United States anyway, unions were less about making it harder to fire people (per se), and more about forcing employers to think about things like safety, reasonable work hours (supposedly, one of the first major labor wins was the bakers' 10 hour day), reasonable wagers, and harassment.

An employment market with too few workers (where it's easier to find a job) is good, but isn't enough if all the jobs require 14 hour days, working with deafening machinery with little to no safety equipment or training, for paltry wages.

Now, if we're honest, modern unions work for all of those things too, even if major unions are sometimes seen in less positive light sometimes.
I cannot speak specifically for Sweden but there are definitely different kinds of prison in other European countries and within the legal system it is sort-of common knowledge which ones are for white-collar crime and which ones are for the really tough guys - and prisoners get sent to the "right place" accordingly.
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I've had a few of these in my time, and I think, to an extent, they're legit, and I'll explain why.

I was asked once - "how many gas pumps are in Raleigh?". I asked back "do you mean pumps for the general public, or do we need to include commercial/industrial pumps too?" and "do you actually mean Raleigh proper or the metro Raleigh area? if so, how do we define that? All of the county?"

Next question was "go to the whiteboard and design a house". I took out the marker, started to draw, then turned and asked "who will be living there? Is this a single family or duplex? mobile home? stick built or modular?" and a couple other questions.

I was told I was the first people to ask questions before drawing.

I take the point of the brainteaser-type questions to be "how do you react to issues that come up where you don't know a lot of stuff?". For some positions, this is less important, but if you're a customer-facing position - even in development, you may interact with customers or other business units - how do you react when you get odd-ball "left field"-type questions? Do you keep your cool? Do you just react and say "that's stupid!"? Do you walk out in protest? Do you probe for more detailed information before making a pronouncement?

More than ever, I think 'brainteaser' questions are far more about personality-judging than intellect or even raw "problem solving" ability.
It would be a shorter EULA for companies like this to have a single clause:

"We reserve the right to be ethical as we choose"
I think there's a fundamental difference, too. His books are fiction. (Or fact. I dunno, I didn't read them.) His blog posts are his personal opinion. I would definitely treat their contents differently.
Its not that it can't be buggy but rather that you can fix bugs once you find them. A proprietary manufacturer of a pacemaker wouldn't necessarily fix your bugs in a timely manner; you depend on his cooperation. He could be out of business, no longer support that model of pacemaker, argue that it isn't a bug or use any other reason not to fix your bug. If you have the source code, you are always free to fix the problem yourself or hire a specialist to fix the problem for you.
Here's hoping I don't have to go back and change all my my UIMapView code.
My favourite things about Tig:

* It's fast.
* It's there in the terminal, right where you're using git.
* Hence, easy to use over ssh :)
* Familiar keyboard shortcuts (press 'h' for help).
* Combined log/diff view, where each scrolls independently.
* 'tig --all'

I've often wished I could use it to start a rebase, but besides that, I find it damn near perfect.
> The general public don't buy "computers" to tinker with any more. They buy them just like they buy a toaster.

You say that like it's at all relevant to the problem.

RMS isn't about helping people "tinker" with computers. He's about something much bigger than that. Freedom from monopoly business models.
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Yup. When I closed on my home I had to figure out to handle that too. It blows the minds of the people in the room away if you sit there and read over the thing... and then ask questions for clarifications. It also [sometimes can] pisses them off cause they plan on 15 to 30 minutes for closing... so if you take your time and go over it ask questions it throws their whole schedule off. When I refinanced the credit union was smart enough to send copies of what I would be signing ahead of time so I could read over it and ask any questions prior to the ceremony of signing it in front of the notary public.
Seems to be SOP from all of the data center horror stories that I've heard.. site/apps go offline, datacenter or domain registrar gives you no useful information of any kind, truth later found out via third party or lawyer work.
Foxconn Chairman confirms iTV
What you write is inconsequential, it's that fact that you do that is important. If you can't write (not a big issue today, but has been not too long ago), you can sign with a X.

The signature itself doesn't carry a lot of weight. Signatures given under threat or deceit are void - which is why important stuff needs to be witnessed or notarized.
They need to accept the changes, if any. The lack of a place for them to sign is proof that they intended for it to be signed as-is, or not at all.

Contracts aren't valid unless both parties have accepted them. The doctor's office can't accept a contract they haven't read yet, and any changes to a contract make it a new contract.
Whereas most people in this situation would be qualified as assholes (and rightly so), Steve Jobs gets a mild look of disapproval. For me, "awkward" does not begin to convey how screwed up that is. It seems that people have a real hard time accepting that the guy they worship for delivering some of their gadgets was in fact a major douchebag.

This tendency to make Jobs into a person he was not it very disturbing. Of course, on HN you risk being banned for saying something bad about His Holiness because some of its highly ranked people are also members of the cult of Apple, but that alone should not be a reason to tip-toe around the obvious.
As a rule of thumb, I ask to see privacy policies. Usually they are not very long ( a few pages ).
This is so completely true. The company is being assessed as much as the candidate. Probably anyone who has interviewed candidates has lost one that they really wanted to hire simply because the company 'failed the interview'. I know I have.

Worthwhile candidates tend to have criteria and the self esteem required to ask questions right back at you.
To be fair most explanations of the Monty Hall problem gloss over the most important fact, that Hall knows the correct answer. When I first learned about it I had a hard time comprehending it until I very carefully reread the description and realized this key fact.
I already save money on recruiters by not using them :)
you are right! For sure it would be more efficient, and shaders are incredibly powerful.
I have considered that, but it wouldn't work everywhere today. So for now I have this implementation I will use for my web games ;)
What Is A Startup (Or A Startup Idea)?
I don't want to pick on you in particular, since it's something a lot of non-lawyers are confused about, but you might be interested to know that "he has no legal proof" isn't really accurate as a legal matter. Your assumption should be that any time you make a promise in exchange for a promise (or a promise in exchange for performance, like "if you refer someone we hire, we'll pay you $X"), you probably have an enforceable contract, whether it's in writing or not. Instead of "proof," think "enough evidence to convince a jury that it happened, more likely than not." The testimony of a credible witness is plenty.

(I have no idea what happened in this case, and I'm not saying a spoken agreement is necessarily a contract or that you definitely can offer any given piece of evidence to prove it. The rules are complicated. But contract law is basically about fairness, not technicalities. If "you have no legal proof!" sounds unfair, that's a good hint that it's probably not an accurate statement of the law.)
I think you're comparing an apple tree with a matter replicator that makes apples.
You don't know if it's enforced or not until something happens. At that point, you can sue them because they didn't follow the contract.

But then, that's how all contracts work.
So many errors thrown by bow that there's no hope of recovery. And this is the problem, every package I try either doesn't compile, doesn't run, doesn't do what I need, or produces the wrong answers.

Looks like I'll have to re-invent the wheel.
With enough eyes all bugs are shallow. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Law

Free eyes have lower marginal cost to the consumer than proprietary ones.
Yeah, car loan signing wasn't as bad and the bank and credit union folks I've dealt with were surprisingly patient... they are surprised when people actually read the agreements though... I think it makes them feel better knowing the person is actually reading what they are agreeing to. Also car loans are many times less complex and have less paperwork than mortgages (thanks in part to all the additional paperwork and contract(s) needed in order to prep the mortgage so that it can be sold to fannie/freddie).
I'm curious behind the reasoning in putting that information in the URL in the first place.
Apple mapping a future without Google in iOS 6?
If you signed it, that's your mark. It doesn't matter what the mark is. That's why you can sign with an X if you can't write your name.
Hi, no, it was last year, but not anymore. Thanks for the heads up, I'll mail the owner.
Apple ‘iTV’ confirmed by Foxconn boss
Ask HN: Best PHP Framework for Web Development
I have been working with PHP for almost a year now. And I m quite familiar with the language.
So I was thinking to start using a framework for my next project.

I m actually really confused as there are so many good frameworks with such good features with docs & extensions.
I m really actually looking for a decent framework which is really easy to use.
I ve considered Yii, Zend, CakePHP.

Would like to know about your experiences about these frameworks!
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Anything that is sent by mail in an envelope or on a postcard. Not a parcel, however.
This may be a great article, but the effort of parsing through the number of ads and highlighted words on the page made me give up trying to read it after the first two paragraphs. Not to hijack this posting, but can this amount of advertising really work for a content site? It seems like it would drive away most readers.
SoundCloud Aims To Become The Instagram Of Audio Sharing, After Redesign
Can someone more knowledgable on the subject elaborate on how exactly this 3d works?
I think you're nit picking and not focusing on the point. Regardless of the length (the lady either knew or didn't know how long the thing was) she didn't have it nor did she provide it to the gentleman to read. The office was still asking him to lie by requiring him to state he received and read something he obviously didn't receive nor read.
If that were my server, I'd pull the data needed and burn the hardware. Never use it again.
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The CEO doesn't know the answer to how many golf balls so he wasn't looking for the end result, he was looking for where you start when problem solving. Many people have no idea how to start solving a problem they haven't seen solved before. The question is valid and you sir are grumpy. But I do give you kudos of standing up for your opinions, that is a trait I'd like in someone I'm hiring.
Related to that is that objects overlapping create overlapping shadows. Which makes sense considering how your render engine seems to work.

Might I suggest instead of a solution in real time, how about a static deal that essentially generates a lightmap to overlay on top of the scene? I can think of several uses for that.
Do we need multiple online identities on social networks?
SmaartmobileTec Inc. launched their new social discovery app, called Evry'U. The app allows you to create several parallel profiles, like masks, for protecting your privacy. Each profile, private or public is separate and distinct from every other profile you create.

We would love to hear what do you think about the app!
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What if your kids catch a flu?

What if your car breaks down?

What if a friend has a broken car two blocks from your house and calls you and asks for help?

These types of tight schedules where everything is machinized and controlled don't work in real life unless you become a robot - in that case you've defeated your purpose.

Sleep at 9, wake at 5 is not realistic unless you're training for IronMan triathlon.

These types of schedules break down because things break down: family has issues, cars break, flu happens, roofs get infiltrations, pipes leak, electricity fails, planes get late, airports are crowded, streets may jam, etc, etc...

You part on the principle that everything just works and you can sleep at 9 and wake at 4, that is simply unreal.
Are you behind NAT?
I have 3 canvas elements, bottom with static backgroud, middle with scrolling terrain, and upper with sprites. I clear the whole middle canvas each frame, and only redraw parts of the other canvas elements.

But I don't use hidden canvases, just .drawImage each visible tile of terrain into the middle canvas each frame. I'll try to draw to hidden canvas, and see the difference, thanks for suggestion.
Zend Framework is the traditional 'enterprise' framework, you won't go wrong with it, though there are quite possibly better alternatives. That's what we use where I work.

I've heard very good things about Kohana but don't have much experience with it. Just try and pick something with a good set of documentation and a decent community.
Are you actually working on this? Because if not, I'm tempted! Just don't want to duplicate effort here.
I've thought about it quite a bit, it wasn't off the top of my head; I would also like some sort of usage monitoring, but I'm not eager to tinker with gas lines or the insides of a furnace.
I love that FF is focusing on performance. FF startup time used to be really annoying but is it that important anymore? Do people actually close their browser?

Unless I encounter memory leaks or similar problems the only time I open my browser is when I restart my computer, which is at most once a month.

I'm curious if this data exists. Is there data on how often people close / open their browser?
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From a user experience point of view, I find that Chrome's pre-rendering of pages when you start typing them is a big deal for me now. Sometimes it makes a big difference on how fast you perceive the page to load - it loads instantly. Mozilla might want to copy that feature or do something similar.
Buy a Cadillac, get a free iPad. Is there more to this story?
Oh, and why is there no feedback forum/something for these companies. In open discussion they could see what their real audience wants instead of staring at the falling numbers and drawing conclusions from suspected causalities!?
> At that point it became a debt that the company owed jzhwu

I considered this, too. Obviously I agree that, if it were a debt, then he is entitled to it, and that the debt cannot disappear.

But what if it's not a debt? I think that the debt exists if the creditor makes a claim. Perhaps by not asking for his bonus, the employee lost his opportunity to make a claim, and cannot make a claim after resigning.

Your suggest he claim the debt at any time. How long is he allowed he wait? 10 years? 100 years?

All I'm asking is that you see how this could be argued either way! Obviously a court (or case law) would decide one way or another, but until that point it is ambiguous.
well for gaming and running modern apps without any trouble, yes. I'm learning java but this is probably going to take more than 2 years to have enough skills to earn with it.

I honestly can not even browse properly with this system. Heck, it only knows multitasking in theory. I'm a big-time gamer and knowing to have missed all of those great games I wanted to play over the years hurts.
Medical software is something that should be more free. The software in medical equipment goes through less rigorous review than the rest of the system. There as a recent paper about the review process and closedness of medical software and there is little to no software audits required for getting approval from officials.

The first fatalities from software in medical systems were in mid-80's when an X-ray machine gave excess radiation to patients because of a programming mistake. I recall it was an integer overflow.

This issue is more serious than just making fun of RMS's extremist views.

(sorry for the lack of links to sources, I'm sure you can find them if you're interested)
Facebook testing new 'highlight' feature: pay to promote your posts
That only works as long as everything works. Soon as you car breaks down coming back from the gym, soon as your kid has a flu and you've got to take him to the hospital and come back at 2 AM, everything has broken down. Then the next day you can't remain on 9pm to 4am sleep anymore, you're then catching up with the late stuff from day before. Weekends then become compensation for the day before the day before when you had the kid flu and then ....well I've been there, done that, and this kind of schedule simply does not work(for me).
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Monopoly business models are only bad, if the monopoly is abused, or if the user is getting a bad deal.

Google has an absolute monopoly on search, but it's still providing the best search out there, so I use it.
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Facebook quietly announces its very own Mobile App Marketplace
Wow, they are really hard to find. I found them on Crunchbase, but with no URL. The only way I found their site was through the Treehouse funding announcement on TechCrunch.

Social+Capital might be a great VC, but they really need to work on being found!

For future reference: http://s23p.com/
You take aerial imagery and laser-scan/photogrametric data. You can create rough 3D models from the aerial images already if they overlap enough. The laserscanning data and terrestrial photos can be used for more detail and accuracy. You could also use government data if your government provides geodata like coordinates, houses etc.

It is impressive but not really hard (theoretically).

Check out eg http://maps3d.svc.nokia.com/webgl/index.html
Will they provide an offline mode?
Software. Hardware. The difference is not relevant.

I also can't easily modify my toaster to fry sausages, because of the toaster company not releasing the design schematics and moulds. It's not free hardware!
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Adobe forces Photoshop users to pay for security fix
Where are those employed? I have never seen it; from small companies to MS (and especially Oracle), from services to product companies. They don't right-out lie because they've actually been drinking the kool-aid so they do not really know that actually the stuff they sell is hard (impossible) to produce. I'm talking software here; no clue :) about other branches of business.
I'll be doing a follow up blog once I'm done building our deployment process for Chef in house. However, I'm not sure you're saying you've already ruled that out and are looking at Puppet instead? So what I come up with may not be very helpful.

I think the general gist for both Chef and Puppet is you'll need to build the machine, build Chef/Puppet and their dependencies, then you can automate the rest of the build using them.
I'm not sure how it makes sense to compare the Apple II to the C64...

The C64 was released in 1982 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 ), a whole 5 years after the Apple II in 1977 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series ), so I damn well hope that it gave more bang for the buck.