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Also, Douglas Adams on a very similar subject:

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2002/12/a_proper_cup_o...

So the best advice I can give to an American arriving in England is this: Go to Marks and Spencer and buy a packet of Earl Grey tea. Go back to where you’re staying and boil a kettle of water. While it is coming to the boil, open the sealed packet and sniff. Careful---you may feel a bit dizzy, but this is in fact perfectly legal. When the kettle has boiled, pour a little of it into a teapot, swirl it around, and tip it out again. Put a couple (or three, depending on the size of the pot) of tea bags into the pot. (If I was really trying to lead you into the paths of righteousness, I would tell you to use free leaves rather than bags, but let’s just take this in easy stages.) Bring the kettle back up to the boil, and then pour the boiling water as quickly as you can into the pot. Let is stand for two or three minutes, and then pour it into a cup.

I don't trust the idea of microwaving water for tea, because microwaved water will probably be sub boiling temperature.
You could use userstyles.org to achieve the same result.
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I'm still pretty shocked at how everyone and their grandma is trying to elbow their way into the tablet market. They don't understand that there is no tablet market. There's only an iPad market.

The iPad wins because Apple is able to pull off a truly beautiful interface (and I mean truly beautiful, not beautiful in "marketing term of the week" sense that it's being used in these days) that's consistent with the iPhone, a sexy display and overall presentation, and the very high quality of apps in the marketplace. The magical Apple brand lust doesn't hurt either.

Generic tablets won't win because nobody ever thought to themselves, "Even though I have a powerful smartphone in my pocket and a powerful laptop at my desk, I feel the indescribable urge to have a third device that's very expensive, isn't as good as either one, and that I can't fit in my pocket."

I never bought a tablet because after toying with an iPad and some random Android tablet I realized I would never use it in real life. All of my friends who have iPads or Android tablets say the same; they play with them once or twice a week, but otherwise they gather dust at the expense of smartphones and laptops.

Everyone wants to copy Apple and make billions, but they just don't get it that people don't care about tablets. They only care about iPads, and that kind of brand loyalty isn't something you can copy.
I have an Asus Transformer 101 and my wife has an iPad, we both use them in the evenings for Facebook-ing, email, games etc. and I don't see the difference. I also use mine for some music apps which are pretty much unusable on my HTC Desire (which is also painfully slow). All that happens is that sometimes my wife has to ask to borrow mine so she can view some website that uses flash.

It seems the article overplays it's basic premise by making assumptions about what people use a tablet for, and then makes far-reaching claims based on this. It doesn't fit with my own personal experience, which is fine, but then it seems the article's author is basing most of their argument on their own personal views rather than any evidence also.
Ask HN: Want to know who is upvoting you?
I love the feature on most social networks that tells you who is "hearting" or "liking" your content. I find it very motivating when I get a notif in my feed that someone I highly respect "hearts" what I am doing. It sounds superficial when I describe in here, but I find it's a surprisingly powerful social gesture.

I would like to know who the handle is that is upvoting my posts and comments on HN. I envision a simple activity feed that lists who and when, perhaps called "feedback". Anyone else like this idea?

I could hack together a dotjs or greasemonkey script to prototype it, but if it's not broadly installed it won't be interesting because it will only surface the upvote activity from people who install the script. If there's interest on this post I'll give it a shot. Anyone in?
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~6 months ago. I'd certainly say the eclipse plugin has improved a lot, it's better than the intellij one now. It is still quite a ways away from good though.
Right, and nearly everything on your list can be done either more efficiently or cheaper with a phone and laptop with an external monitor. We both understand that; the tablet is a luxury. That's sort of my point: you haven't replaced any devices, you merely added another one in. Not every wants (or can afford) that excess, and the tablet isn't good enough on its own.

>"Perhaps I'll open Rage HD and have one of the most immersive and physically exhausting gaming experiences possible"

That's a slight exaggeration! If you are at all serious about gaming, the iPad isn't even in the conversation. Again, it's pointing to the iPad and telling me how awesome it is at something, but then having to qualify that statement because it isn't as good/cheap/efficient for that purpose as a device I already own.
I just tried this on my iPhone (iOS 5). You are correct about the date.

"Siri, what happened on September 11, 2001?"
"You don't have anything on your calendar on Sep 11, 2001."

"Siri, what happened on 9/11?"
"You have a couple of meetings for September 11, 2012"

I wasn't able to think of a close analogy for the directions to test, unfortunately.
You just gotta hang in there, and keep at it. Start small, run lean, don't try to perfect, try to finish fast with the least useful options you can have. Sell, sell, sell.

I'm doing it now, and it's Hellish. :( I love to play soccer, but I gave up soccer 2 days a week. I played 3times a week. Soccer on mondays only. No going out, except on Friday 3 hrs only. That's it. I'm giving up everything, within the regular week, I can squeeze out 15hrs + 10hrs weekends. 25hrs a week, 100hrs a month. A lot can be done in 100-300hrs if you are very focused and know exactly what you are working on, and how you are going to solve it.

Tackle a problem domain that you have expertise in, not a problem domain that you have to experiment with and find a solution that no one has ever found.
I'm pretty sure "post a bunch of obvious nonsense, then call anyone who disagrees a troll" isn't considered appropriate behaviour on HN.
That may all be true, but in my experience working at a very large webmail provider, the vast, vast majority of phishing attempts (not just 419 scams, but also really terrible attempts to get passwords to email accounts from which to launch more 419 scams) came from Nigeria, Benin, and Côte d'Ivoire IPs.
I think the ridiculous bit is that the author expects people to rely on legal content. Most young people I know either have an HDD full of ripped movies or a favorite illegal Flash streaming website. (In Europe - here in Taiwan, Apple doesn't even offer music or movies. Everyone uses PPS, which is available on the App Store and usually installed on Apple resellers' demo devices).

People with illegal content are sooo in the market for an Android tablet. The long-term problem will be to get them to upgrade to a second tablet. After you have this 10" screen that can be fed movies over USB, why ever buy another one?
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For how long will that be true?
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Last I heard the actual manufacturing cost was about $10 [1] marketing and R&D are pretty much fixed costs and don't really work well in accounting for per-unit margins. At the end of the day there's still no indication that Apple is sacrificing margin for market share.

[1] http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/03/16/high_cost_of_n...
I don't think that is true. It is all about what is a priority. I have 3 kids plus another on the way, a day job, and multiple side projects/products (one being Hacker Newsletter). My family is my priority, so it is very rare for me to work on the side projects while the kids are awake. You just have to cut things that aren't as meaningful to you. For me that was TV/Facebook/etc. I also think it is good to mix-up what you work on. Some weeks I'll spend a minimal amount of time on my side-projects and instead do some wood working projects or what have you.
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That's so true. I don't have a family yet, so I've been working to get my projects higher off the ground. I want to eliminate the day job while it's still fairlu easy to do so.
The one area where tablets beat all other devices is reading digital comics. The screen size and resolution are just right. The touch interface is just right.

For just about any activity I can think of, tablets are second-best at best (reading eBooks, watching movies, web browsing), but for digital comics it really is the best way to do it.
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Take it from someone who has been doing this for some years now. I have 3 side projects. A job a girfriend and a son.

It is entirely possible but entirely depending on your spouse and on how much you are prepared to sacrifice.

I even took it up a notch and moved to the other side of the Atlantic.

Relying on Skype, Pair and monthly visits. Suffice to say it's not easy and not without it's challenges. But if you have a great spouse and are very clear on what the goal of you doing what you are doing is. Then it's possible.
The kickstand actually looks pretty nice to me, and I bought cases for my tablets (iPad 2/Xoom) to get the same functionality - would be nice if it were built in.
> Other types of pollution are much harder to track

I was trying to explain to you why I find radioactive pollution unacceptable, replying by telling me that there are worse types of pollution does not really add to the discussion.

You seem hell-bent on making this discussion into one about choosing the lesser evil. But the article is about the exact opposite - it's about getting out of that cycle and investing in a true alternative.

> Pollution from other energy sources also causes cancer, and causes more of it than nuclear power. Nuclear power gets the headlines, sure, but the day to day poison is everything else.

I find wind turbines to cause very little cancer.

> When I said "people like" I meant "people opposed to nuclear power", which you are (seem to be), and therefor you are like them.

No, I understand that, but why do you want them off your lawn? By their opposition to nuclear they automatically made the air worse and cause pollution action days? Strikes me as a tad simplistic.
I know how you feel but I don't think it needs to be that way. I have a family and that does (rightly) take a lot of time. However, it can be done. Its a matter of organisation.
Seems to me that a major state university should aim to provide its students with a broad range of fields. Not being able to study German at a public school seems absurd.
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I wish more of these open questions in coding (and everything) had people making such a good effort to research them! There never is a simple answer, or they'd not be an open question.

Really inspiring, painstaking piece of work.
The issue isn't MIT competing with itself, it is, as the OP mentioned, MIT online competing with the second tier "me-too" institutions out there that are charging the same tuition for a far inferior experience. If you are considering getting a degree from a university few people have heard of or respect but will have to pay the MIT price for, you will at least have the option of choosing the online route to achieve a potentially superior education. The choice will be more and more difficult as online universities get A-listed and solve the many problems they currently have with their user/educational experience.
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My advice is keep the side project small and only work on one at a time. We often spread ourselves too thin and try and undertake something too big. If we cannot see fast results we become demoralised.
I don't think courts are in a position to rule on quality of products unless it's blatant false advertising. I'd love to discuss this but my next job is likely to involve Unreal as well. All hail our lords at Epic.

So instead I'll disagree with you on Perl which I thought was one of those saner replacements for bash, especially when it comes to one liners. So what languages did you think I meant?

> Same reason C is still popular

I think the reasons behind C and bash staying power are different. Bash is here to stay because it is ingrained, literally embedded in the system and has a large user base. It doesn't offer anything unique that isn't available somewhere else. C is here to stay because it offers what other languages don't. There are new projects with no legacy concerns that still choose C.
"Some numbers are going to occur out of proportion to a random distribution. If it's a geeky crowd, you'll probably get at least 10% picking 42."

This is so true that, for many years, magicians would use it as a "mind reading" parlor trick. The number 7 comes up with outsized frequency when people are asked to choose a number between 1 and 10 (the further out you expand the set, the lower the probability of their picking 7 -- but not by as much as you might expect). So much so, that you could fairly reliably ask someone to pick a number, guess that they'd picked 7, and be correct.

This is because most people don't actively think about the answer. They just select the number that comes most readily to mind. In Western culture, 7 is ingrained fairly heavily as a lucky/special number, and we encounter it with enough frequency that it'll be a likely choice for the brain's equivalent of the auto-fill feature.

You're much more likely to get a truly random sampling if your question requires thought or calculation, or if the bounds are unusual enough to warrant active thought. For instance, "Pick a number between 2 and 99" isn't drastically different from "Pick a number between 1 and 100." But it's different enough that it cues the brain to stop for a millisecond and actually think about the question. As a result, it's slightly more likely to generate a unique/uncommon number. (An even stranger set, such as "Pick a number between 6 and 73," will force the person to think even longer).
What it shows is breathtaking. First, China is proposing "to give countries authority over the information and communication infrastructure within their state" and require that online companies "operating in their territory" use the Internet "in a rational way"- in short, to legitimize full government control.

The United States already does this.

Second, several proposals would give the U.N. power to regulate online content for the first time, under the guise of protecting against computer malware or spam.

The United States already does this (under he guise of protecting IP)

Third, Russia and some Arab countries are proposing to be able to inspect private communications such as email.

The United States already does this.

Fourth, Iran and Russia are proposing new rules to measure Internet traffic along national borders and bill the originator of the traffic, as with international phone calls - essentially creating national toll booths for data.

The infrastructure makes this possible already, today. If a state wanted to, it could impose data tarifs on telcos.

>> Fifth, there is a proposal that would give the U.N. control over the Internet's Domain Name System, replacing ICANN which operates under a contract from the U.S. Commerce Department.

... speaks for itself.

Frankly, I don't see the difference.
In the past 10 years I was able to support my side-projects (see profile) and family life (we have 2 years old) by not having a day job, but instead carefully choosing freelance projects. Here's how it works:

Freelancing allows me the flexibility to dedicate pockets of time to side-projects that require a push. I simply don't book myself of 3-4 weeks if I know I need the time for a side project. This allows these side-projects to organically flourish rather than wither in the long term. If and when any of these projects become a source of income, I can easily turn my attention to it without having to change my lifestyle.

Regardless of their monetary success (some of my projects are not meant to be products at all), I've noticed that they act as magnets towards the kind of freelancing jobs I'd like to take. This creates a positive feedback loop, as the freelancing gigs often help me push forward at least one of the side projects (code wise or knowledge of the domain).

Overal, the trick is to keep your projects (paid or not) within your core curiosity-zone. If you're just starting out, the mission is to get closer to this zone with every new freelance gig. The end result is that enjoy both the side projets and my freelancing gigs. The line between them blurs more and more every-day.
I put a cardboard box on my desk, place the laptop on it and work for a few hours when I wish to stand.
I agree. I am not a great fan of side products because that is a whole other goal. That is all about making money rather than learning more. Its just not me.
Ecuador offered Assange residency in 2010 (but rescinded later due to diplomatic pressure) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11874911

Maybe Assange thought it was worth trying a known "friendly" country first. Also the Ecuador government claimed it had nothing to lose from wikileaks' leaks, so if they really didn't maybe they'll be less likely to try to screw him.
Plus, it's actually really HATEOS that gives you discoverability, not just any old REST.

But either way, I agree with you, while the theory is that if you do it 'right' one way or another it's self-documenting, I have yet to see an API which doesn't need good documentation to be usable.

Well, actually, that's a lie, I've seen at least one: The TinyURL "api". Which is obviously extremely simple.
What kind of performance can I expect from using a Raspberry Pi as a webserver?
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Interesting, but worth remembering, as Rich Hickey says, every bug has got past both your unit tests and your type checking.
Damn that would kill me! I suck at mornings :)

The principle is spot on though!
A niche product that last quarter surpassed PC shipments from the biggest PC vendor, HP?
I don't think tablets can become primary computers until data is owned and controlled by the user, not by the apps. I don't know what the correct interface is for this, but I need the ability to create a document in any particular app and open it in another app that supports the document type. And I need to be able to share (and receive) the documents with other computers.
This is starting to normalize now, but I think it's important to point out how many great apps and games are made by indie developers or tiny shops. Lots of one-hit wonders in there.
To an extent you are right, you can probably get away without it.

I think it helps with localised branding. Sure we are really just one website, with one shipping location (and we aren't hiding this fact). But displaying GBP prices and charging people exactly that price, in the currency they are used to, without any international transaction fee popping up makes a difference.

This, along with creating a local phone number and physical address, gives the customers a better feeling that you are localised to their country.

Of course we haven't actually tested this both ways to see what the difference would be.
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Absolutely! As I say at one point in the post, if I had to choose I would choose life over side projects any day of the week. Although I prefer to hire those who do side projects I have also hired people precisely because of what they did outside of the web.
It is definitely refreshing to see some actual evidence in something where arguments tend to be based on speculation, experience, or opinion. Now, we just need someone to research Emacs v. Vim, Tabs v. Spaces, etc.
I did this for SXSW and was great. They have some really useful planning tools and actually much better than what SXSW provided themselves.
since "Zionist" is defined as the movement that believes Israel should exist, you can perform the substitution, and come up with "Wipe the regime that believes Israel should exist" off the map.

I don't think there really is a distinction.
In my experience, styles that are applied directly to elements cause more problems than they solve. Outside of a minimal reset, and a few general elements like h1, h2, etc., I try to avoid applying styles to base elements. I have yet to see any real-world problem with classes. And I really don't understand why "classitis" is a concern for anybody.
That would be beyond awesome if they could tack down karma weighting.
The pictures linked by Bossi in the comment section are really interesting looking:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thisisbossi/3062674949/in/set-7...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thisisbossi/3062675425/in/set-7...

Quite impressive level of camouflage.
Now make the site design pretty, and tell us why it's useful?
actually microwaved water will frequently be above boiling--microwaving lets the water remain still enough for it to get superheated. when you disturb it (with a teabag, spoon, etc.) it will start bubbling wildly (and quite possibly give you a nasty scald)
Why stop at a 9 inch screen then? Who said that's the ideal? Get a laptop. Slightly bulkier. Far more versatile, cheaper.
Far too unstable for my tastes, especially with an iMac. I paid slightly more and got an 11" high coffee table from Ikea for $40 to drop on top of my existing desk. it has worked out really well for me, and provides more storage under. Clear work surface!
I've been using multiple lines in my log messages, but didn't know about second blank line.

I tried as per pilgrim689's comment, Now everything is fine with --oneline argument.

Thanks.
You should also consider whether you would rather prefer to keep your good friend(s) or take part in the startup.

I think going into the startup will likely risk losing that friend, at one time or another. In hindsight, I consider going into a friends' startup a negative investment on my part, and a mistake (in 20-20 hindsight) and should have preferred to continue my then current career and keep my friends as good friends and rather gone my own way with my own company.

I would have made more money that way, would have finished studies earlier and had a better career than what turned out to happen.

Also, cutting school to benefit a startup company, I ended up not finishing studies and being later laid off for not being "qualified" despite sacrificing my studies at the time to benefit the company. - Expect zero gratitude and zero loyalty, when greed shines in your best friends' eyes and investors ask for people to be laid off. - They went so far as to forbid me to finish my studies, and this in writing, from my by-then-ex-best-friend. So there. Greed will override most friendships.

Now, I would think twice before losing or sacrificing too many of them.
The PC industry is far, far bigger than HP.
I think that paraphrase was slightly closer to the opposite of what tinco said than what he did say.
hey these things never go away as long as someone is prepared to pay the power bill

eg a friend of mine wrote some rap songs years ago, all still there - http://jackverbals.tripod.com/