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Singapore Post 4-State Barcode Support & Postnet Barcode Recognition
The new version of Aspose.BarCode for Java 4.5.0 has been released. This release includes Support for Singapore Post 4-State bacode type and fixes for many important features like recognition of Postnet barcode type, Graphics Unit Enumeration missing and many more. Below is the list of main new and improved features added in this release

•	Support Singapore Post 4-State bacode type
•	Recognition of Postnet barcode type is fixed
•	BarCodeReader.getRegion().getPoints() has ambiguous return type is fixed
•	GraphicsUnit Enumeration is missing is resolved
•	BarCodeBuilder, BarCodeRegion has internal classes in API
Thanks David.

You are so correct about access services. I am dyslexic/disgraphic to the point that I can't write with a pen and paper. I flet like access services was interseted in helping me pass classes but not excel.

Having issues with reading and writing is nothing like being deaf but many of us who want to achieve despite/with our disabilities struggle with the expectation that we accept merely passing.

When I took organic chemistry I was unable to write out chemical formulas and at the time there was no software to quickly type that information.

My school provided a note taker who was averaging a D in the class when I needed a B or better to graduate and keep my scholarship. In the end another student and I had to birbe a classmate for notes, which was a violation of the honor code.

Being dyslexic is nothing like being deaf
This matches my experience, as well. I have not had the privilege of knowing many older coders, at least none that I admire.

Those that come to mind were stuck in dead-end programming jobs because they knew only older technologies and supported clients that would not refresh their systems.

One in particular was overworked, underpaid, and cast aside as soon as the one client he supported stopped having enough work to justify a full time position. He was a great guy, smart, great at classic ASP, but he was not receptive to learning new technologies. And he couldn't type. He hunted and pecked at the keyboard. He thought through the code in his head to prevent having to type out code that wouldn't work.

I am scraping my memory, trying to find an example of an older coder that I admire, and I can't find one. I think this is really unfortunate for me, because I know they're out there.

However, there are some network guys I've worked with that knew EVERYTHING. These guys were running dial-up POPs and colocation facilities in the '90s (mid 30's at that time), and now they run all the tech at a local ISP's backbone. These guys were amazing, and I can only imagine I'd continue to be impressed if I kept working with them. The difference? Every time there's a new switch, they learn it. IPv6--they were ready early on. New technology was sought out by them and they craved to understand it all.

For this reason, I think you have to chase at least one or two "fads" once in a while to stay sharp. Otherwise you become complacent, as you are still making a living without doing all that "pointless" work of learning new techniques, frameworks, tools, or languages. But then you may realize that you weren't paddling your boat for those last few hours, and you can't really see land anymore.
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Note the author is Dirk Stoop, of recently acquired Sofa. (Congrats Dirk if you're reading.)
Most of the people I know that still regularly download music are huge audiophiles and buy a lot of physical music, attend concerts, and purchase other music merchandise.

And that still leaves two other arguments. Personally, I downloaded a lot of music and movies when I was a poor HS/college student and there was literally 0 chance of me purchasing them as an alternative. The lost profits argument just doesn't apply.
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Actually, MMM lives in the SF Bay Area.

See http://earlyretirementextreme.com/how-i-live-on-7000-per-yea... as also seen in @ProCynic's post.

Edit: ok, fail.
Desirable qualities

Intuitive
Forgiving
Frictionless

Most of this article applies equally well to humans...
Is there any information out there regarding streams / chunked responses within Rails? (I'm not talking about the new template stream facility, but generating arbitrary data)

I'm currently using enumerators assigned to response_body:

self.status_code = 200
self.response_body = Enumerator.new { |y| ... }

I'm hitting a number of problems though, e.g unicorn killing long-lived workers.
We have Apache running on some Windows boxes-- haven't found a way to run apachectl on Windows...
From the article:

- buying a conservative dividend-paying stock index fund – go to Vanguard.com and start an account to buy some units of the VFINX fund, or if you have a brokerage account you can buy SPY shares.
- last resort: just putting the money into a cash account that pays the highest level of interest you can find – Vanguard’s Prime Money Market fund or ING Direct’s Orange Savings Account.

VFINX is a -0.76% for 5 years
ING Orange is currently at 0.80%

How can you assume 5% after inflation? That is no different that assuming that home prices will go up by 2-3% a year. It sounds reasonable but there is no way of knowing exactly how that will play out.
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I'm saying it's very low on the list of possibilities. Most of the data is of transient value (browser cookies last around 30 days on average). If Google is whittled down to a shell of its former self, to the point where they'd consider selling that data, presumably what data they have at that point isn't really that valuable.
is this run on a windows box??

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Spending $20,000/year seems impossible in the US.

Unless you have a trust fund or came into money early, just saving $50,000 a year for the last 10 years was pretty tough. You'd need to go without health insurance and probably already own a home. Be in a high-pay, low schooling job. No kids, no un-employed spouse, no pets. No health problems. No job or startup failures. NO MISTAKES.

The people who have accomplished this exist but are few and far between. They are the extreme exception, definitely not even a corollary to the rule.
`apache.exe -t` according to http://www.zrinity.com/developers/apache/usage.cfm
A valuable advice. I'd add purposefulness, for the lack of better word. API is usually intended for some specific use cases, and it's important to communicate what these are—in documentation and in API design itself. (Although this point could be seen as an extension to your “provide examples of how to accomplish tasks” suggestion, it probably deserves its own mention.)

I'd also say that discoverability does not matter as much as documentation, IMO only very extensive APIs with lots of endpoints would actually benefit from it. I.e., in the case of web service APIs, don't waste resources on implementing complex nested endpoints with discoverability and HATEOAS when just a bit of clear documentation would do.
A study by the Swiss government showed that people have a fixed budged reserved for entertainment - if they can download music for free, they will spend it going to the concerts instead.
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That's Jacob Fisker. MMM lives in Colorado.
These are basically just options and options trade at all kinds of strikes all of the time. They don't even seem to be trading at particularly high prices, based on this quote:

Julius Baer sold the securities with the largest trading volumes, two put warrants with strikes of $35 and $30 on the Scoach exchange in Zurich. Investors traded 402,000 contracts yesterday valued at $335,780 of the former and 603,000 warrants for $322,620 of the latter, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

Nothing to see here, really.
I've been having a lot of conversations around intrinsic value of stocks that echoed this a bit: dividends or voting rights. If this were the case though, I don't think you would see the levels of investment that you're seeing. Facebook's stock's intrinsic value is derived from Mark Zuckerberg's value of it. In other words, even though you cannot exercise those rights to any effect, if everyone concluded they were worthless, you'd see Zuckerberg buying them up b/c he values them or he would address the reasons people consider them worthless thus adding value.

The absurd part of this that this would imply FB stock is intrinsically worth less, which makes the current already over-valued trading price look that much more ridiculous!
I don't get the warning either in the USA, maybe because I have noscript.
I thought you had to get explicit opt in? Simply hitting the page once and refreshing sets the cookie so you will never see the message again doesn't sound like explicit opt in to me?
Why is it available just for the US App Store?
So this right there bespeaks the wrong motivation.

"Strike it rich" implies fame and impact. You are arguing terminology.

Do you want a guy like this at your company? This is absolutely poisonous from a culture perspective.

Absolutely. I will always choose people who work smart over people who work "hard". Always. As to being poisonous, if someone refusing to give up the life balance is "poison", it's because you already are on life support.

Astonishing how much narrative you've invented in your reply.
Do not forget about your privacy. Properly encrypting a laptop and making sure it is still good enough if stolen while running (ie short time lock down) is a good idea.
Judging by the gossip I heard while at AOL, he surely isn't the only person using AOL's offices and food without contributing to AOL, but he's the only one who isn't actually employed by AOL.
Rebranded Instagram with Feacebook photos integration?
I believe a real valuation for FB should be at $15 and then grow from there. Everybody wins in the long run. But the market is not made to make everybody win, au contraire, to take the money from the fool in every possible way.

You saw how MS placed a concrete floor to the stock on opening day, even buying over 60 million shares to avoid a collapse.

Everybody thought it was solid enough then they invested.

Then it dropped.

Then they panicked.

Then they sold.

Then it stabilized and everybody thought it was ok now.

Then it dropped even more to its real value.

Almost a trillion dollars changed hands in just a week. Only a few got rich.

A fool and his money, that's wall street credo.
Facebook always had photo sharing features built into their apps, but was still dominated by Instagram. Lesson here is that mobile apps are very task oriented - people have apps to check their email, get directions, etc. Having function specific apps for Facebook makes sense here.
Next is Facebook Ads.
I don't agree with everything on this list, so I made my own:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4018867
From another article on Facebook Camera:

"Stoop confirmed to [All Things D] that Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom and his team had nothing to do with building Facebook Camera."

Source: http://allthingsd.com/20120524/as-facebook-launches-a-standa...
"you might get lots of job applications from people who aren't really suitable, and only a few applications from people who are great"

This in my opinion is the problem that you are trying to solve through Moki. correct ? Why not make this clear on the homepage instead of saying "Hiring made simple..through twitter blah blah". So the problem is "too many applicants, only few good ones matching your company's needs/culture/environment/requirement". Moki is solving this problem by a) removing recruitment agencies layer ? b) directly connecting job seekers and employers ? c) twitter helps the employer understand more about the job applicant from his/her connections who might already work at the company ? d ) twitter helps the job seeker understand more about the company from his/her connections who already work there ? I am just thinking off top of my head here but take away whatever you can.
That's what high limit medical insurance is for. Unless these insurers commit effective fraud and not provide their service after the fact.
"new concepts (for example functional programming)"

New? Functional programming has been around since the 1960s. ML was first available in 1973. Haskell was first released in 1990. Even Python, a decidedly non-functional language, included the "map", "apply", and "reduce" builtins in its 1.0 release in 1991.

The author of the essay says that 45 is often considered "old fart" age.

Let's say someone was 25 when Backus presented "Can Programming Be Liberated From the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and its Algebra of Programs" in 1977. That's 35 years ago, making them 60. Or perhaps the reference date should be when "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" came out in 1985? Making them 52 now.

(I picked age 25 since at age 20 they would be "out of nowhere, 22-year-old kids" you were talking about.)

By neither criteria is functional programming new enough that a 45 year should consider it a "new concept."
Wouldn't it be sufficient to wire in a computer controlled switch in parallel to the mechanical switch that the human uses to control the turn signals?

Or just add a new set of turn signals independent of the built-in ones.
Alan Kay makes the point repeatedly that when implementation (or usage) of a technology outstrips education, what you get is a pop culture, driven by marketing and fads, AKA eternal September.
You're equating reading articles to being productive. I find the opposite to be true. When I spend an evening browsing hacker news is when I feel unproductive.

I feel productive when I put away all the distractions, and just hack on one of my personal projects, of which there are plenty.
Fixing EMMA's coverage.out.file System Property
Good quote from the blog:
"The truth is this: web standards are often a tyranny to developers and designers alike. By themselves, they constrain just as much as they free, and they are designed not for our benefit, but primarily for the benefit of platforms and software on which our solutions run."

Very true.
So confused. I understand the instagram deal is on hold, but a separate app for facebook photos, even if it's been in the works for awhile, seems like a waste of time. It's a deterrent from what should be their main focus. When investors are skeptical about the future of their revenue/stock, this would be the last thing I'd want to see. If this was built into the facebook app, as an improvement, that be cool. LNo one would care about it, but it would at least make sense.
They started off with that approach, the app had a pseudo home screen with quick access to different functions.

Ultimately I think it boils down to what you think of when you want to do take a photo or send a message which maps to (Facebook Camera, Facebook Messenger) more naturally than just Facebook.
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I am at a startup inside the AOL office, part of the StartX program.

He didn't need to squat, he could've just joined as an EIR or consulted for part-time for one of the companies here to get a bed to sleep on (we have nap rooms and entrepreneurs regularly sleep here). I'm not sure what accommodations or norms ImagineK12 has. (NOT OFFICIAL OR ENDORSED ADVICE LOL)

Some people have basically been living out of the StartX office. Nobody minds.
Hi, sorry for the late reply. I only briefly read the second link, but I don't think it's what I was talking about. I read the Wikipedia article on thermals a week ago, and it seems a bit brief. I was a bit quick with my first reply as well. This is a pretty big subject.

Thermals can be triggered by any perturbation in the atmosphere - a gust of wind, a truck on the highway or a temperature differential caused by the sun. But they are _sustained_ by vertical temperature differences in the atmosphere: As an airmass rises, it expands due to the lower atmospheric pressure. This expansion causes the airmass to cool adiabatically, approximately one degree Celcius per 100 meters of gained altitude.

However, meteorological conditions can cause the temperature distribution of the _surrounding_ air to be different. For instance, after a clear night with no clouds, perhaps the air from the ground up to 2000 meters altitude actually decreases in temperature 1.1 degrees Celcius per 100 meters of altitude gained. If an airmass on the ground starts moving upwards in these conditions, it will still cool adiabatically - but slower than the rest of the atmosphere cools due to the meteorological conditions. So a rising airmass will actually accellerate, because the airmass grows hotter relative to the surrounding air as it rises. This is a thermal. It will keep moving until the temperature of the atmosphere starts rising with altitude. Condensation (cloud formation, cumulus clouds are caused by thermals) can increase its vertical speed.

But to answer your initial question: Yes, they can and do. But when the atmosphere is so _unstable_ (unstable atmosphere == temperature falls very quickly with altitude) that thermals are spontaneously triggered without help from the sun, it will usually mean bad weather or thunderstorms later in the day. So if the air seems calm at the surface, it will pretty much be guaranteed to be calm at 10 meters altitude. You can detect thermals at ground level by rapidly changing wind direction, often on nice summer days. In the air at low-ish altitudes (less than 2000 meters), thermal activity is indicated by turbulence.
This is exactly the way I want to buy media and other "soft" goods. I wish it was widely adopted already.

I want to know what I'm buying and iTunes previews, shareware trials, demo versions, movie trailers or what have you aren't nearly good enough to decide if I like something or not. Or someone just drags an MP3 on my Skype icon: "Hey, did you hear this song? It's really good!" -- "Wow, yes it is." (I'm a naughty pirate now, but if it weren't for piracy I'd never have listened to that song).

So when I do find something I really like, be that music, software or a TV show, I often _want_ to give the creators some cash. And it's incredibly frustrating to do that. Maybe the band is on iTunes, but that album with the nice song isn't (and as they pointed out, you'd end up giving cash to people who contributed nothing to the process of creating the stuff you like). Or the movie isn't available as digital download and you're supposed to buy a little plastic box with a disc in it that you have to dust off regularly and modern computers don't even have a slot for anymore. Plus, you already have the damn thing anyways, so all you really want to do is throw some money at people to show that you appreciate their work and want them to be able to pay the rent so they can keep making cool stuff. So why not make it as easy as possible to give you money?

Speaking of easy, my only problem with the above page is that I have a beef with PayPal and would greatly prefer them not profiting from anything I do (well, actually I would prefer for gaping holes to simultaneously open underneath their offices and suck them down straight to an equivalent number of burning, spiked pits in hell, but that's another story). So maybe provide some options here. Other than that, best of luck, and please let us know how it works out.
Good hustle, Eric. Sorry for dropping the ball on not getting back to ya but you've been making do better than I can.
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> If he is an amazing engineer, he's not "excluded" from the culture. You need a command line and an internet connection to start your own thing.

You missed two things: he qualified his statement with often, and he used the word culture. The word culture implies something different than just a command-line and an Internet connection.
put options with a large S px to K px delta have a low price. currently those puts have no intrinsic value i.e. out-of-the-money
Bad news for Batch from Dailybooth (YC S09). They focus on uploading photos in batches.

http://batch.com/
Wow. Do we really need this?
Developer Insights Into Facebook Open Graph API Usage
It's the iOS paradigm to make feature simple standalone apps. Why do you think Apple has both a "Photo Album" and "Camera" app? And both a "Phone" and "Contacts" app?

Many users upload photos to Facebook, so there's a huge incentive to make an app that makes it simple to do this. Even if the main Facebook app has feature parity with FBPhotos, it's still going to come with all of the cruft.
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> You should be doing something like "/sbin/service httpd restart".

The 'service' equivalent is: service httpd configtest

> Why go ghetto?

What does 'going ghetto' mean exactly?
Facebook's press site is operated by NASDAQ.
UX bug that is actually fairly glaring when it comes down to it:

I searched for "Facebook Camera" in the app store, but because it is so new, it is not there (ok, seems normal)

I went to the site and clicked "Text link to my phone", phone number already filled out, text went through fine (so far so good)

Clicked on the link, but facebooks mobile detection caught it before the redirect happened, didn't know how to handle the url, and redirected me to the facebook homepage instead (I was logged in, so this was my news feed page).

This leaves me with basically no way it install the app unless I wait for it to be indexed in the app store, or download to my computer, both of which I do not want to do.
When you try to design a mobile app you quickly realize how little real-estate you have on a phone to build a complex interface. Facebook is a ridiculously complex app when you think about all of the things you can do.

Facebook might be working under the assumption that they can make cleaner, simpler products by breaking them out into smaller functional units all backed by the same social graph.

Or this could be a relic of something the Sofa team was working on before the Instagram deal.
My wife does the same thing when scheduling me and my time.
If he doesn't explicitly state a licence, the default copyright is owned by the author. Open source licences exist for this reason, to change the "default behavior" of something that is publicly released.

For this reason Kwerty owns the rights of distributing and using his code even without a licence.
Not true everywhere:

http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/01/25/Imitated_Image_Copyr...
That $20'000 figure is when you've already bought your furniture, appliances, house, car, etc. And you live in an area where costs are significantly more reasonable, such as a small town in Colorado where the author lives vs. the bay area, one of the most expensive places in the USA to live.
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The main app is optimized for reading your timeline. Fetches notifications, friends, messages etc.

It is hard to optimize for different tasks at once, while I'd also argue it would be possible to strike a good balance. But I think it is a pragmatic decision rather than try to achieve that perfect balance, and let several instagrams take over, do the right thing for each task and a year down the line knowing usage patterns, with much better hardware, you can think about a consolidated app.
I've always thought that the goal was to slowly let Instagram die in the same way Flickr has.
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Out of curiosity, have you used/tried flattr?