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Often this is not a good idea, but depending upon family circumstances, if you can't get past the "too unstable" portion of lenders' analyses, you might want to consider whether you or your wife have well-off family who might be willing to co-sign (or even take over the property and issue their own loan to you).

An area fraught with emotional (et al.) landmines. But just if it might, contrary to prevailing wisdom, really fit your circumstances.

However, the circumstances would indeed have to be somewhat exceptional. Residential real estate is not a good place for someone senior to be devoting a significant portion of their assets -- or risk exposure.

P.S. I'm no financial guru, but I would really hesitate to take an ARM, at this time. You can go down two or more points while staying with a fixed-rate product.

Also, I agree that "chicken" is not a good idea. Especially at a place like WF, I think you're basically fighting an algorithm. As they say, good luck with that.
I could be wrong but assuming Oracle won, besides damages wouldn't they have been inline to collect ongoing licensing fees from the Android handset makers?
Yep yep :) Totally obligatory. I used the title as linkbait, admittedly.

I'm not sure if I really get that the idea is really worth $33M in funding. I saw it more of a cool side project that I'd use.

In fact, I don't particularly like Airtime's execution. I'd have done it pretty differently. If they're curious to know how, they can ask me :)
How familiar were you with KS? I can see you backed a recent project yourself. When did KS come on the radar for you?
Git is also British slang for stupid. Like all Torvalds' software, he names it after himself :)

I think you're right. It's a good domain name and "regular" people won't pick up on the reference and won't really care regardless.
Seemed pretty inevitable something like this was going to come down. Whole IPO process felt pretty hush-hush and kinda suspect. Pretty thrilled I didn't sink any money in it.
To me the biggest lesson from APL is to always try to manipulate the largest data structure you can your hands on. For example, don't think about for-loops, think about 'map'. When you can do that, life is good.

The limitations of the language that I saw (in the mid 90s) were around interoperability. Devs saw it as esoteric and steered toward something more 'marketable' like C++ and later Java. The extensive use of memory mapped files for persistence made it 'viral' in terms of building apps to access data. The language (or more likely the library support) was great for pricing algorithms but not so great for business applications filled with corner cases. As I recall these were reasons it was phased out at Morgan Stanley.
It's not bad for the client. They wanted to short, and they did. Also, there are now non-existent shares being traded which artificially depresses the price, which is good if you shorted the stock.
Agreed. Facebook has turned into a stream of blabber and pictures of people's kids (no offence).

What is NOT noisy is:

* Path (just my close friends)

* Pair (just my girlfriend)

* Google+ (the "what's hot" news feed is actually pretty interesting)
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> These functions in times past were done with the laborous process of making a million letters or phone calls or in many cases (like my hometown page) scarcely made or not made at all.

Or with Geocities? FB hardly invented the concept of a page on the internet where events are listed. I'm sure it provides some nice functionality around calendaring and networking, but we didn't go from xeroxed fliers to Facebook with nothing in between.

Personally, I didn't delete my FB account because of privacy issues, I deleted it to make FB less useful to people who know me. Using the site was a constant exercise in using the site, rather than gaining utility out of it -- hiding apps, hiding people, keeping up with baby photos. Now that I don't have an account, nobody tries to message me or expects me to see something they posted; the social obligation's gone. I don't have to wade through 50 Farmville clone updates to get to an important message someone sent me. It's in my email now.
The number of millionaires created and the amount they have available to invest are directly related to the stock price. If the price is low, shareholders won't sell, so there won't be new cash to invest in other startups.
I'm not a fan of this quote. It really does dismiss the arts, the power of socializing, society, government, and largely the human experience.

I'm much, much closer in mentality to Temple and to be frank, her strawman socialite is weak sauce. I've spent much of my adulthood learning social skills I never picked up as a child or teenager and they in themselves have an incredible amount of power. Without the socialites we wouldn't have gotten on the moon because we'd be too busy in our basements making toothpick replicas of various Lord of The Ring battles. Honestly, NASA is a pretty poor example. The amount of politicking, career maneuvering, inter department competition, giant egos, public policy changes, new administrations, etc going on there would be unbearable to someone like Grandin.

Different evolutionary neurotypical strategies exist because they have value. One isn't "better" than another. Let's stop playing this game and accept that from a macro view there's a lot going on and its unfair to piss on or put one group on a pedestal. Its just too easy to do so. Ease and psychologically pleasing conclusions should always be seen with a critical eye.

I think this is also why extremist right-wing politics appeals to the geeky crowd. We like simple answers that rely on systems (free markets, no taxes) and don't understand how the social aspects (regulation, control, subsidizing for the poor) matter. To many they're just roadblocks to some idealized system that 'must work' because it makes sense on paper in a very simple way.

Oh well, here come the downvotes, but I really wish on a personal level that my own issues were addressed when I was younger. I learned long ago that, yes, I'm smart and creative and am able to do difficult things, but the price for that for a long time was misery, loneliness, confusion, and depression. I know its a cliche but the balanced really life is the best life. I don't want to be Temple Grandin the same way I don't want to be Paris Hilton. I wouldn't mind being Temple Hilton though.
A very good buy for Google. It's probably the best mobile Office app out there.
Pretty much the only legal battles you hear about are the disasters. 98% of federal cases are resolved without a trial.[1] And my guess is that for every federal case that even gets filed and settled, there are lots of legal disputes that never even reach that point.

So what you're seeing here is the small fraction of a small fraction where both parties were super committed to their position and one party learned they were wrong the hard way. Those ones aren't pretty. But we kind of need them, because they set the precedents that all the other disputes are resolved under. For example, it will be a lot harder to claim that APIs are protected by copyright now, and that will have an impact on all kinds of disputes that never reach a courtroom.

I mean, I pretty much agree with you -- it's totally true that lawsuits are miserable things to be part of, and are often hard to salvage any value from for the parties. Do what you can to avoid them -- work with people you trust, write your contracts explicitly and carefully so everyone's on the same page and everything's in writing, and do your best to settle disputes through mediation, where you can make the pie bigger instead of watching lawyers fight over their slice. But also remember that what those lawyers and judges and juries are doing in the disaster cases is negotiating the boundaries of the society we want to live in. In this case, the boundaries were improved by the process. So it might not be such a bad thing -- other than for Oracle.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawsuit
I have a pretty comprehensive list of chapters, but I'm still adding content to the book, so if you guys have any ideas or suggestions for topics you'd like to see covered, feel free to email me or post them here. Thanks so much!
The Browser Refresh plugin for Sublime Text does a very similar thing, looks like it is only for Chrome, but works of a Mac.

Thank you for the post though, helped me find this other plugin.
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This a Big kill for other Office apps in the Store.

Google's dominance and monopoly is killing smaller start-ups and Businesses which isn't good for our community.

They acquired Motorola Mobile, and it was a kill for other Android OEM's.
Sounds interesting, especially since your stack matches mine pretty well, so count me in. However, it should be pointed out there is nothing there at your site to see yet (apart from the discount and announcement thing).
Yeah, but the standard (non-student) version is much more expensive. $2,495.00

http://store.wolfram.com/view/app/mathematica/
> You're getting downvoted, but not being told why.

That's also a great way to describe the social aspects of mild[1] Asperger's: afflicted individuals are ignored, bullied, and excluded. No one tells them why this is happening, they're expected to "just get it", and it's assumed that they're making a deliberate choice to "be a dick".

[1] Severe Asperger's is much worse, e.g., you are a brilliant programmer but you're living in an institution as your family is unable to take care of you and you are simply unable to function on your own; this is an actual case I am aware of, not an imagined scenario.
What is the expected price point of the book? Since you're in the middle of writing, do you have any opportunities for "beta" testers who can provide feedback in exchange for complementary copies?
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And cmd+arrow keys for home and end.
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I mean, it already started happening with github.
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How is this scientific? All I see is a lot of speculation with no experimentation/testing. Vague similarities to another study don't cut it - we are not monkeys, and the monkeys weren't playing D2/D3. He's just assumed the premise that D3 is less addictive than D2, and the rest is an argument made to fit this assumption. I'm not saying he's wrong, just saying that this is bad science.
My natural barf reflex was triggered by seeing both 'Agile' and 'Scrum master' in the same sentence. Thanks for upvoting guys.
The metric that continues to really impress me about Facebook: 58% of users log in each day (that's 526mm DAU out of 901mm MAU, according to its SEC filing). That's roughly the same percentage as it was in 2007, when I first heard that kind of stat.

I love customer surveys, but I don't think people are good at estimating how they actually spend their time or how frequently they do things.
What is interesting is that Valve and Github were both self-funded/bootstrapped.
The complaint here is that inferno (highest) difficulty is not enjoyable in the traditional sense. From what I understand, inferno is not designed do be addictive per se, it's designed do be hard and it's aimed at people who want to play hard games.

I believe (but have no good citations / evidence for) that there's another system in the brain for rewarding behavior, one that is based on the satisfaction of accomplishing tasks that are difficult. This other loop may be a little harder to study, I'd imagine that it would be difficult to get most animals to exhibit this loop.

Just take a look at a sample of walkthroughs for various games, alongside traditional guides you'll find esoteric ones: guides marked as "low-level", "solo", "pacifist", "naked", etc. There are also play styles such as "ironman". Back in the day, I used to play Diablo ironman with friends. You're not allowed to talk to merchants in town. I played FF6 "low-level", where you don't allow the characters to gain levels: run from any fight you can, but you still have to fight the bosses with a woefully underpowered team.

It's tapping into the same reward systems that reward programmers for refactoring code.

So I guess my final point is that you can't call something less addictive by analyzing it, since you can only analyze the addiction mechanisms you know about. You have to determine how addictive it is by measuring the behavior of the actual people using it. From a scientific perspective, this article is really a hypothesis.
I disagree. My point is was not that not being able to write perfect English is a prerequisite for good research. However, consistent bad usage to me is an indicator of either a lack of self knowledge/criticism (unaware of one's own level of knowledge) or of indifference, which are both red flags to me. It's an easy matter to have your paper reviewed by a native speaker or an English major from your university.

You perhaps wouldn't argue that attention to clean, professional attire when going to an interview would lead to nasty stereotypes, and generally fashion sense has no bearing with, say, coding ability (I think they are inversely proportional), yet what would you think if someone showed in shorts and a shirt to an interview?
That's a good point. I was originally disappointed with the item system in Diablo 3, but I quickly realized it doesn't matter as much as I would have expected.

The core gameplay feels a lot more solid and fun than in Diablo 2, and that's what makes me think the game will be successful in the long term. Itemization and difficulty can and will be tweaked after release, but it's much harder to fix the gameplay if it isn't fun.

However, I stand by my argument about the game's addictiveness (in the literal sense) in its current form. Many will see this as a good thing :)
Very exciting! I hope this will be released on amazon or have affordable shipping to Germany.
Are you looking for any proofreaders?
While there is a nugget of truth in that quote, it is also a vast simplification. There is a (somewhat) symbiotic relationship between FB, you, and FB's advertisers. If any one of them are abused too badly, the combined organism will die.

That means FB has to create a product people are interested in using and has to protect their privacy just enough while giving their advertisers what they need to successfully market products.
The “Social Reader” applications are the worst. All I end up doing is Googling the article title.

Luckily, I don’t think Yahoo! and the Washington Post care an awful lot about the sort of people who log into Facebook at most once a week, and then mainly to use chat.
You may be interested in some previous submissions of this question and the evolution of the replies over time:

1533 days ago : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=145261 : 5 comments

1240 days ago : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=429802 : Many comments

974 days ago : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=861970 : A poll with 17 votes

8 days ago : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031889 : 5 comments

I'm sure there are more, my search used specific terms to reduce the number of items returned.
Great stuff Trev and team!!
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Sure did take 'em a long time and a lot of money huh?
I'd be interested in your opinion about premature optimizations and how your experiences with bottlenecks matched up compared to your initial expectations. I often find myself overthinking performance and scalability issues that turn out to be not relevant in the end...
that's an archaic view on advertising
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I had a question along those lines come up recently where I work. Someone had heard a little about the lawsuit and asked if there was a concern that Oracle was suing organizations that used Java. The person I spoke with admitted that they knew almost nothing about the issue, just that Google used Java and got sued; and since we use Java in some cases could it mean that we were open to the possibility of being sued by Oracle.
From the name I thought it's about sending tips to someone (like tips & tricks) how he could improve his code via some git pull request or something.
I play D&D and occasionally read Order of the Stick, so I first started paying attention when Rich Burlew had his record-breaking Kickstarter [1]. Rich's professionalism and good management of the process was an inspiration for how I've been approaching mine. It's actually been pretty interesting to follow along with his updates, even though I didn't back his project.

I'd heard about it before then and a friend of mine had also conducted a Kickstarter [2] but up to that point I had never looked at an actual project.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/599092525/the-order-of-t...

[2] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/242604490/irish-language...
"Talented people with a lot of experience have strong opinions."

i hear this often. and i've worked with some people like that, many of whom i admire (in some ways).

yet i am not at all opinionated (as far as i can tell). when people ask me for advice, i often find it very hard to guide them because there are so many options, and what will work best seems to depend so much on non-technical factors.

and i am not sure what to do about this. i have tried being more opinionated, and there are times when a decision affected my work and i have fought for what was right, because i am doing the work. but often other people, opinionating, just seem like noise (worse, sometimes i suspect people confuse being opinionated with understanding something).

no real conclusion here, sorry. sometimes i wonder if people are too opinionated; sometimes i wonder if i am not opinionated enough (or if i am not that talented - although i do take re-assurance from the d-k effect). but that part of the post, and a related comment by the author here, disturbed me a little. i am not sure a place full of opinionated people is that pleasant (or optimal).

i was wondering if this touches a chord with anyone else?
Here's a tiny restartless addon that shows if the page you're on is using SPDY: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/spdy-indicato...
Sounds like a great idea but what about solo players? I believe many are upset that blizzard stated drops were altered due to AH considerations. Basically, you need to use the AH or you'll die of boredom - and it was designed this way.

The best solution would be a mode with higher drop rates and no access to the AH (only trading). This would have lowered AH usage and cost Blizz $$.
Insightful because I don't seem to enjoy Diablo 3 as much. I'm currently pretty bored with the inferno difficulty level. My options is to keep farming gold until I can afford something strong enough on the auction house to carry me further. Really frustrating. Before I could just farm and eventually get myself an awesome piece of gear and use that for progression.
Citation needed! What about users of old versions of Chrome, for example?
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Does anybody use Maglev Ruby in production?
Does anybody on HN use Maglev Ruby in production - any feedback on the experience?(http://maglev.github.com/)
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Does Microsoft have seamless import to 365? I honestly think it's not just hard, it's impossible. There are always going to be formatting glitches that creep through.
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There are a lot of people, on Slashdot in particular, and also here, who have self-diagnosed themselves with Asperger's in the belief that it makes them Homo Superior.
PhD in astrophysics, worked at Cambridge, Caltech, MIT and in a bunch of military space projects.

In my world 'Sheldon Cooper' is a wild party animal.
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Is this the app that is built into Android that lets you open Word documents?
Very useful idea. For some reason couldn't get it to work with Compiz so I'm using it with an Emacs command. Thanks.
It appears some of the people who you can tip on the site actually had the tip jars set up for them without their knowledge. I think this was on HN before about why that isn't cool.

http://krisstraub.com/2011/11/20/kachingle-and-the-transgres...
I don't know about Bill Gates, but several of the people mentioned (e.g., CEO of Jetblue) have clinical diagnoses and would not have been able to be where they are without understanding their conditions.
Agreed. Good loot still drops (look at AH), I'm using 3 pieces found myself. I've also found multiple drops worth 1M+ gold, which is also exciting. Maybe the loop is slightly longer than D2 but that doesn't make it non-existent. Anyone can draw a graph.
Good to know other people want to share about successful scaling with PHP.

On the downside, I have a book cooking on the same exact subject, with release planned September (self-publish, about 80% done), but now not sure if it's worth continuing.
[edit]Slight moment of "panic", as seeing someone else releasing a book on the same subject made me sad, but you're right, no reason not to continue.
"This web site that you're posting on is dedicated to entrepreneurs who create businesses in their home offices without the need for a big corporation to back them and provide HR, Accounting, and other overhead services. That revolution in new business model opportunities is afforded by the advances in technology that your thesis is decrying."

I think you misunderstand: This site, us, these people: we're in the business of making a 1000 person company into a 10 person company.

What do you think happens to that other 980 people?

That's my point. Yes, that is what we here do. We create novel ways of doing things better, or in another light: we replace copious amounts of human labor with technology equivalents.

I'm not decrying the trend, either. I'm calling attention to it: We have to realize what is happening and adapt as a culture.

I do not think we will ever return to 4% unemployment. I think a critical mass of technology has been hit in a number of industries where re-adding the number of employees lost in a recession never happens. I think that structural unemployment number is going to keep rising until we confront the hard questions about how exactly we approach labor in this country.
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like Samsung? They're killing it.

What smaller startups has Google killed with its monopoly? Facebook?
Google doesn't have any monopolies. They dominate search, but their showing in office/productivity applications has been abysmal. No domination there.

Google bought Motorola Mobility, who have been intensely underperforming for the last couple of years. Other manufacturers have been excelling; look at the success Samsung has had, for example. If you really fear Google and their dominance, office productivity apps shouldn't be the center of your fear.
Just because one person releases a book doesn't mean you don't have something valuable to share as well. I say go for it. There's bound to be a lot of stuff in your book this one misses, and probably vice versa. People who are facing large-scale situations generally want all the information they can get their hands on.
Sounds very interesting, will be keeping a close eye on this.

On a side note: What is the icon for "Happy Users" supposed to be? It looks like Facebook's like icon but without a thumb.