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I have a son with oddly shaped hands. He suffers dysgraphia and many other issues because of this. He finds the standard typing position physically painful. I homeschooled him. We tried a few different typing programs. He stayed with one he liked until he could type 35 wpm with few errors. That's about what I type much of the time, when thinking and typing. I type about 60 wpm for timed tests where I am only copying.

I encouraged him to play online games to get his speed up. He types with two fingers and a thumb at probably 80ish wpm when "chatting" with friends. This is based on how it sounds. I know what 80ish wpm sounds like because that is what his dad typed.

You can try typing programs and online games, etc, if you want. You may or may not benefit from learning to position your hands "correctly", depending on the underlying reason for your odd habits.

Best of luck.
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even in california, it is highly recommended that one not use work-provided resources for your side projects if you have even the smallest intentions of commercialising them.
Why is heat any different? If the temperature was too low, my fingers would have frozen off while typing.

(I think the answer in this case is: I didn't take any action to receive the heat. Now the question is: why can't I legally decrypt satellite TV that's being blasted through my brain 24/7?)
Apple should be stopped from creating an artificial barrier towards people selling apps to consumers without Apple's approval. There's no reason they couldn't separate the store APIs from the App Store itself, allowing the creation of third-party stores and direct sales. This would allow them to curate more, they way they do with the Mac App Store.

And for the record: Apple is merely the most obnoxious offender. I would happily apply to the same standard to Amazon, Nintendo, etc.
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It's interesting because Opera is one of the links on the "unsupported browser" page.
Small correction: You must comply if you intend to keep yourself protected by the safe-harbor provisions specified in the DMCA. If you do not comply, you then become exposed to liability, though not necessarily guilty of infringement.
What an incredibly poorly reasoned post. First of all, the complaint has nothing whatsoever to do with the metric vs non-metric issue---we could as easily report gallons per hundred miles if it mattered that much.

More importantly, though, this business about the scale being "linear" is at best a red herring: linear with respect to what? And who cares if you save "one gallon" on a hundred mile trip? It's much more relevant how much you save relative to your overall gas budget, and saving one gallon out of three is much better than saving one gallon out of every seven.

And, surprise surprise, either system will tell us that just fine. Going from 14 mpg to 17 mpg may save about a gallon on a 100 mile trip (slightly more, actually), but it cuts your gas budget to 14/17 of its former amount, a savings of about 18%. And going from 33 mpg to 50 mpg may save a gallon on a 100 mile trip, but it cuts your gas budget to 33/50 of its former amount, a savings of about 33%. So, just as our intuitions would indicate, that's a much better improvement!
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Indeed. Some buildings are used normally at 2am. When we have games night at Google, it's rare that it's over before 2. This is an expected use for the building -- it's considered open 24/7/365.

I imagine there are AOL employees that work late, too, or fall asleep on the company couch.
That's the most egregious straw man I've seen in a while. Even so, are you saying the ends justify the means?
Never go back to a boyfriend/girlfriend that let you go. The relationship won't be any different.

Same is true for a company.

Never go back to a company that let you go.

There is one caveat (and it's the same caveat for working for family, never work for family), if the company is willing to pay you 3 times your market value take it, then dump them as soon as anything better comes along.
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Most successful startups have a great story because they are great story tellers. Great stories make for great articles, even if fictional.

Great entrepreneurs can see a problem and identify the opportunity that exists there. Rarely do people set out to merely solve a personal problem and end up with a massive company by accident.

When one doesn't understand the risks involved in creating a startup, they are more risk averse and might have an advantage there. You don't have to worry about friends who keep talking about starting a startup, they're mostly talk and no action. If they do start something, they're already ahead of most people reading hacker news.
Hey, I'm writing a bot for this.

One thing though: I think resetting the board state should call new_game() again. This likely only matters when testing your bot, but it's nice for variables that need to be instantiated per each game.

It's pretty fun! My current greedy solution is called: SoGreedy. :)
Let me know when you have a strategy to make housing into a post-scarcity good like software.
Rhode Island's last governor, Donald Carceri, was a lame duck when he set up the loan. The current governor, Lincoln Chaffee, tried to stop the loan when he took office, but it was too late.
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"without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities"
I get confused all the time. I thought cardinality[ tikhon ] was 1.
If you're launching a site (or ISP), you will need to register a designated DMCA agent with the US copyright office. You'll then be listed here: http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/list/a_agents.html The fee is $35 and there is a form you'll fill out on copyright.gov. They don't allow PO Boxes, you will need an address that is available for service of process.

If you don't register an agent, you are not protected by the DMCA safe harbor provisions.

Once you've got a registered agent, you'll need to internally create a DMCA notification procedure that you'll follow once you receive them. The system is very simple and extremely fair to ISPs/sites. Talk to a lawyer, but most don't know the DMCA well and you can find this stuff out on your own generally.
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Seems funny following of the recent debate on HN about politicians teaching themselves technology/to code.
When we talk about a car’s fuel economy, what we want to know is how much fuel does it use, not how far does it go

I've never understood this phenomenon. I realize he's talking about car economy here, but for me a car is a vehicle to take me from point A to point B, which means my most important metric is how far it goes, not how much fuel it consumes. Once I'm home and can (or want to) run calculations on my costs, then I'd like to know how much fuel it consumes.
>>>They can sell Mp3s but not for 99 cents a song... especially when Angry Birds costs $1.99.

Now wait a minute there. What about an eBook? What about a movie or TV episode?

If Angry Birds for $1.99 is the price standard for everything, you're setting up a trap that most everything is going to fall into.

I've tried Angry Birds on demo tablets in stores -- and countless YouTube videos demoing tablets -- and I don't see the appeal. Even free, I wouldn't want it. Most games simply don't appeal to me. I'd rather read or listen to music or watch video.

Angry Birds might be worth $1.99 to you, but to me it has negative value.
Do an ls /usr/libexec/git-core/ (or your operating system's equivalent) some time. The fact that the porcelain exists does not mean that the plumbing does not.
pv /dev/zero > /dev/null
Is this time and money well spent?
They are trying to break into the picking fruit from grids business. Hardly anyone is doing it so it is wide open for disruption
On a slightly meta note, HN comments are weighted by the average karma score of the person leaving the comment, not just the number of up-votes that specific comment received.

So this comment being at the top could easily be down to the poster's karma/average karma.
Georgia has been negotiating sweetheart deals with various game studios (Hi-Rez and CCP to name two) that supposedly include some really nice benefits (like free rent/office space) in exchange for moving some or all of a studio's operations to the state, but I don't know if it includes loans.
It seems that Microsoft is going full Apple.
You might want to look into RPy for using R libraries with python.
FWIW, getting (any sizable % of) businesses to migrate was an explicit non-goal of the Windows 8 project from the beginning.
Have you heard any reviews of Honelive? I've been looking for a dedicated server provider in the US with comparable prices to Hetzner in Germany.
Wait, when Apple started the iPhone they had no 3rd party application, people begged them to allow that. They got to that number from zero. They are not preventing anyone to create a phone so compelling that everybody is asking for a SDK. moreover hundreds of mobile allowed 3rd party apps before the iPhone was there(I remember those cheesy java apps). They sold a very expensive phone that had less feature than the others and everybody wanted one. I don't know exactly what more proof we can get than the market is free than that. It was more expensive and had less feature than the other. The only extra stuff was Steve Jobs, sorry but the marked for that was destroyed a few month ago.
From talking to the White House, I know that they are taking a great interest in this particular petition. They are looking to see how much public support there is for free public access to taxpayer-funded research. It is only with a public mandate that they will be able to push through open access legislation against the objections of the journal industry.

There is a very direct relationship between how much support this petition gets, and how willing the White House, and members of Congress, will be, in the short term, to push through open access legislation.
Is this saying that no way to develop c++ applications with VS 11 Express? If so, it is horrible for beginners, and I don't see how MS is going to benefit from this move.
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Fixed, thanks!

Your bot is doing pretty well already. :)
>>>No company scores any points with me by starting out by greeting me as a "pseudo-criminal".

The tongue-in-cheek of that didn't register? He wasn't being insulting. He was using the terms the music industry itself uses. And the "pseudo" preceding "criminal" should have been seen as tongue-in-cheek in that context.
What an oxymoron. This is a FORUM. People are supposed to voice their opinions.
It's a misnomer, sometimes you want one, and sometimes you want the other, so knowing a ratio, any ratio, and 8th grade algebra, you'll be fine. This is a silly post.
Upvoted for a skilled application of poe's law.
First-time game developers often want to make an MMO. Anecdotally, this happens all the time on a small scale even amongst hobbyist developers (i.e. college students working on a part-time project). First game? I'm going to make an MMO!

I'm not exactly sure why, but it may have something to do with both their popularity and the ease of imagining a cool, novel MMO concept.

It never goes well. College kids never finish their part-time project, Curt Schilling blows through millions of taxpayer dollars. Many big-budget MMOs are in the cancelled game graveyard, and many dragged down their studios with them: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/show/dead/sCol/estimatedR...

I feel bad for the talented folks at Big Huge Games who boarded a sinking ship. Here's hoping that all the staff at 38 Studios and BHG find news jobs ASAP.
I don't have the Facebook app on my iPhone (I used to but I deleted it) yet Camera still dumped me into my FB account with no login. Odd.
Go develop your app and sell it on the Cydia App Store.

It's possible and Apple is clearly allowing it to exist. That doesn't mean Apple has to make it easy for you to switch over to it or support it in any way.
Thank you. I'd like to agree :)

Nothing personal about it.
If we started asking this as an interview question, NOBODY would pass. Time after time we have "senior" developers who fail to write very simple functions, like to count the number of occurrences of each letter in a string.

For me, personally, it sounds like an awesome question, but it's not clear how you would judge it. Let interviewees' bots fight?
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That was my first thought, too - $200k could fund the writing of a lot of really good JavaScript, which would benefit the JS community (and the web at large) a lot more than a vanity TLD.
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As the self-appointed permanent apologist for all things AOL, I declare that what Eric did is totally cool. Any work resources he used can be offset by our collective 24-hour work days from 1995-2000 - and we were denied Starbucks, wi-fi and telecommuting on account of they didn't exist yet.

I spent plenty of nights at the terminal and afternoons asleep on those couches; Eric's nighttime efforts will ensure that they wear evenly.

Eric: Welcome!

(AOL 1989-2001)
Right. Sometimes, you want to know how much beer you can get for a fixed amount of money, and sometimes you want to know how much money you have to pay for a fixed amount of beer.
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It's a beutiful service, but I still can't see how to make good use out of it.

It seems to me a Evernote-ish within your network. I'll keep using for a while and, in the case I come up with any feedback, I'll share with you guys.

Thanks for a bonus to HN users.
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I've had a 3-node hardware Riak cluster lying around for about 4 months now, but only just today cut over from Postgres to it. I can talk to you about how shiny Riak is on day 1, but as this presentation shows, the day 1 behavior of a Riak cluster can be a bit of a trap.
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“People always ask us, ‘You own it, right? No? Why’d you sign that deal?’ And I have to say, ‘Because I was sleeping on my friend’s couch.’ ”
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"Since when do states give massive loans to game development companies without a single successful title under their belt?"

Since game development companies started being run by sports heroes who are virtually revered in the region (as Curt Shilling is in New England).
Interestingly enough, this is a very similar type list as you'd see for Mongo, especially in terms of overall effort.

That you'd encounter all these things at a 25mm daily ops level is pretty odd, though.
Directly contrary to the thesis of the article: Microsoft is absurdly generous with software licenses if you're going to build on their stack. Even without getting a deal from the inside, you can get on their e.g. BizSpark program, which gets you essentially every software product made by Microsoft for free for three years.

http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/

The only requirements are you have to be working on the MS stack, privately held, and making less than a million bucks.
Anyone know of a high traffic CDN?
My startup site is seeing a huge spike in traffic, and currently does about 140Mbits a second and rising worth of traffic.

Are there any CDNs that can not only handle this, but do so at an affordable price? Akamai is too pricey so its out.

I know about:

NetDNA
Choopa
Can we use nacl?
From the petition:

"Requiring the published results of taxpayer-funded research to be posted on the Internet"

I'm just pointing out that requiring it to be posted on the internet requires someone to host it.
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for the Americans who might wonder : 100km -> 1h of driving on the highway (limit is 120km/h or 130km/h, remove urban part on start and finish and you're at 100km/h average).
I recently wrote a py script that turns markdown notes into Anki flashcard decks. If there is any interest, I could make it publicly available.

I still never feel like studying.
http://www.cachefly.com/ should suit the bill.
I'll second this. Apple's doing causes a great deal of harm to small businesses that basically only live on its platform. That is a monopoly to these small businesses. I don't see why MS is punished like hell in the 90s for bundling IE only, but apple lives comfortably now.

The only solution is iOS platform must allow third party appstore, must allow third party browsers(not wrappers). Otherwise, shit will happen again tomorrow.
I get a lot of nice little extras from SoftLayer. For example I can get boxes in the 5 corners of the internet (west, central, east, euro, asia) with free bandwidth between them.
They have the same chance everyone else does: the market.
Reading this story made me incredibly depressed that I am no longer an engineer :(

(Thanks so much for the link though, it was one of the most inspiring stories I've read this year)
He clarified it for me: I thought that Facebook had stopped working on Chrome. :P
> What you're describing is the situation every time you develop on someone else's platform: Apple's, Microsoft's, Facebook's, everyone's.

Ah, so that's why FireFox and Chrome were banned from Windows. Oh wait they weren't.

Ah, so it must be why the Amazon Appstore for Android can't be installed on Android any more. Oh wait, it can, along with dozens of other app stores.

But it does explain why the Kindle app is crippled on Android so that Google Books can take prime position. Oh wait, it's not.

You have a point, but you try to use that point to gloss over the real issue here. On other platforms your product just has to be good enough to succeed (eg: Kindle app). On Apple's platform(s) it is not about being good, in fact the better your product is the more threatened it is by Apple's anticompetitive practices.
But why get such an attitude over nothing? Seems pretty silly.
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We're still using Facebook?
Did CCP actually an office in Georgia or was did they just inherit offices from their acquisition of White Wolf? I believe CCP had software engineers in Atlanta working on the White Wolf MMO.
Linear with respect to your budget. The post is correct, that putting consumption on top gives a better "feel" for how much money you'll save.
Yes, you can choose from multiple options. Android, Meego, Boot2Gecko (soon). Windows Mobile, Blackberry, iOS, Bada, etc.

So: some people choose Apple for its advantages, and others choose Android for its advantages. As a matter of fact, openness was the whole purpose of Android, way back when the G1 was released. Android is an incredible success story for open source cooperating with commercial interests and gaining huge public mind share.
Why are the fruit counts represented as floats?
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Probably worth a billion dollars too!
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. "
An interesting viewpoint, although I think the genetic evidence goes against it:

http://newguinea-singing-dog-conservation.org/Tidbits/Origin...
With regular users in mind, how much of a problem is social engineering these days?

A couple years ago some Cisco researchers infiltrated a botnet and got to interview the operator. They asked him what vulnerabilities he uses to grow his network, and he said none:

http://www.cisco.com/web/about/security/intelligence/bots.ht...

Instead he spams instant messaging networks with "check out this cool software: [link]", and he could count on 1% doing it.

This is the sort of thing my parents and grandparents fall for. Combine it with social networks and the message appears to come from a trusted person.

For this reason I'm glad to see the arrival of curated app stores, despite their many drawbacks. For regular users I think it will make it harder to be tricked into voluntarily installing malware. But I don't know how significant this problem is compared to not staying patched.
I think that you would find MongoDB to work nicely for you ... especially with the need for rich queries (which assumes, on my part, that you have more complex data needs, documents, etc.).

With all due respect to the Kiip engineering team, this wasn't a strong case for using Riak over MongoDB ... but rather the general pain that a engineering team feels when horizontally scaling in the cloud.
You can get half a fruit if you and your opponent pick it up at the exact same time.
The fact that Chrome is not there implies a possible animosity towards Google, which makes this interesting.
...Did you just submit the Facebook homepage to HN, mate?
We do plan to add some additional languages. Next on our list are: Haskell, Lua, Python.
Sold! Any suggested prerequisites?
>I still think investing in the stock market is crazy.

this is a kinda extreme fringe position. I mean, I feel the same way, and all my money is invested in my own company, but I'm generally seen as way higher risk than just dumping your money in a index fund.

Out of curiosity, where do you invest your money?
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Problem easily solved. Build your apps for Android first. You can make almost as much money on Android, and you can be secure knowing they won't pull this kind of garbage on you. Free markets are great.
Wow. I was too young when bubble started and all I remember is the talk that "Internet is going to change the world". But if companies like the one mentioned went public then I must imagine how bad situation might be at that time. Currently, companies that are going public have some solid revenue numbers and are in business for a while.
You mean the guy that completely changed Apple by moving it out of the manufacturing business? Remember, Steve Jobs built factories, Tim Cook unbuilt them (and put Apple's profits through the roof in the process).

Assuming you're in your thirties: A man that has worked at Apple since you were a late teenager, in several leadership positions, has far more to do with what the company is today than your pithy comment.
They didn't really have a choice in the matter! In JavaScript, all numbers are floats.
This doesn't necessarily follow from employer based health insurance, that can happen regardless of how you source your insurance.

The problem is that we get our health care through health insurance companies.
Only an APP STRIKE can stop this.

After all it is the developers that make the App Store prosperous, now they take advantage of the established platform and act like ass hole to the developers. I don't see they will change the behavior if we do nothing but complain.
I think that's his point. Usually you know how far you want to go and the question is, how much gas will it take. For example, I know my car gets 8 L/100km. If I want to go 400kms, I can quickly figure out that's 32L, or about 2/3s of my 48L tank. Doing this calculation with mpg requires division.
Angry Birds made over a hundred million
in profits so far, I'm saying maybe the music business should examine it's pricing structure. Don't get me started on Ebooks or TV shows.
by adamant, do you mean passionate, or want to make lots of money?
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