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"What can you say the greatest advantage over someone in my situation would be?"

I can't speak directly for pgbovine, but I had a similar experience as in his book (finished fall 2011). I also can't compare to your situation since I don't know you. But I share pgbovine's sentiment: The PhD wasn't necessarily fun, but it was personally fulfilling. It also left me with a deep sense of accomplishment and appreciation for "just how far the rabbit hole goes." I often describe research as: 80% banging head against a wall, 10% cursing, 10% progress.

Some of my recent work is more akin to "engineering consulting." I've found this job to be vastly different from research -- implementing solutions that are mostly-known rather than exploring uncharted territory. It's probably closer to 30% banging head on a wall and 70% progress, without any cursing (and saner hours with better pay). YMMV.
It also should not be that hard to provide your own upstream ntp server, and have that generate leap seconds at will. Both machines could be VMs, too.
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Every movement has to start somewhere.

If you felt a company was behaving unethically and wanted to boycott it, what would you do? Would your strategy not involve spreading the word to your friends and followers via social media?
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Single page, readble version:

http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/the-measur...
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Using a mix of heuristics to rank search results? Sorry, but no.
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1000x worse than than Microsoft's assault on Android for using their own technology and putting a mandatory tax on every on every Android device??
It sounds like you just have a terrible connection. I had a 10mb connection for < 30USD/month and regularly streamed HD video, sometimes US video through a VPN. At work was even faster. That was in Beijing up until this May. It looks like I'd have a free upgrade up to 20mb if I were still there!

http://battery-pack-adapter.com/beijing-unicom-broadband-spe...

As for banking, the problem was that their active X component was a .exe download. Even with IE, it wasn't doable on a mac. ICBC did claim to have a mac app in the works, but I didn't see it before leaving.
Scrolling down a bit doesn't help at all. Where's the pause button?

That is unusable.
I had no idea you could get faculty from another institution to be on your thesis committee. More importantly, I had no idea PhD students could do summer internships to supplement their measly stipends. If I knew that I might have applied to grad school already. It seemed like the only people in my undergrad program who had a good idea of how to plan out their academic careers were the ones whose parents were university professors. I felt alienated and left to fend for myself and I still don't know how to break back into that world.
People should absolutely at least be doing some back of the envelope math on this before choosing a strategy.

If you're at N DAU, then a 12h downtime will affect a bit more than N/2 users, and some percentage of those users will become ex-users - you can run a small split test to figure out how many if you don't already have data on that. You'll also lose a direct half day of revenue. This type of thing will happen somewhere between once a year an once every couple of months, as low and high estimates.

Crunch those numbers, and you'll have an order of magnitude estimate of what downtime actually costs you, and what you can actually afford to spend to minimize it. Keep in mind that engineering and ops time costs quite a bit of money, and that you'll be slowing down other feature development by wasting time on HA.

For instance, let's say you're running a game with 1M DAU, and 5M total active users, making $10k per day (not sure if that's reasonable, but let's pretend), and you've figured out that 12h of downtime makes you lose approximately 10% of the users that log in during that period. In that case, 12h of downtime costs you a one-time "fee" of $5k, and also pushes away ~1% of your total users, which will cost you $100 per day as an ongoing "cost".

If we assume this happens exactly once, and that a mitigation strategy would work with 100% effectiveness, then you should be willing to spend up to $100 extra per day to implement that strategy; the $5k up-front loss is not nothing, but we can probably assume it'll get eaten up by engineering time to implement that strategy. If such a strategy would cost significantly more than $100 per day over your current costs, then by pursuing it you're assuming that "oh shit it's all gone to hell!" AWS events are likely to affect you multiple times over the period in question.

I'm not saying these numbers are realistic in any way, or that the method I've shown is 100% sound (I'm on an iPhone, so I haven't edited or reread any of it); I'm just saying that whether you pursue a mitigation strategy or not, it's not terribly difficult to ground your decision in numbers. They do tend to be right on the edge of reasonable for a lot of people, so it's worth thinking about them (good) or (better) measuring them.
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This is really a non-issue. Tech companies sue each other and get import bans all the time. The victim eventually moves some UI widget three pixels to the right and the import ban is lifted and life moves on. The only real consequence of all this is that lawyers on both sides make a lot of money. Google is not going to stop making Android and Apple is not going to stop making iOS. Both will just advance more slowly because money is being spent on lawyering rather than programming.
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Google would do the same if they were in Apple's position. So boycotting does not make sense.
I didn't downvote your comment. I don't see the point in only talking with people you agree with.

And I don't think there is anyone that doesn't agree that the patent system needs reforming. But where there is disagreement is whether Apple has the right to defend its work and to what extent.
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Thanks for this investigation! What I like about the Northcliffe attribution is that the guy was not a saint; he practically invented tabloïds. That lends a very practical aspect to the quote -- secrets sell.

Journalists are not fighting holy wars, they are printing secrets, and that's what makes them good journalists. People who print things "that nobody wants to suppress" aren't journalists. They're more like... "useful idiots"?

Now the problem with the OP is that his post has absolutely nothing to do with good or bad journalism; it's precisely a PR stunt for Hipmunk, which I certainly don't object to (AFAIK Hipmunk is a very fine service); I object to the fact of calling that piece "journalism" -- and invoking Orwell on top of it!!
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Well, yes, you are right with this in that both will continue to manufacture and litigate each other...

Surely, efforts would be better directed against the broken system that is being gamed by those companies, instead of dividing consumer forces, you know: Apple fans vs Google fans vs Microsoft fans vs x Other fans....

It would be much better to have everybody in action vs Broken Patent System.
Without distinction? Only if you look at it simplistically, form the view of a single process. Otherwise:

- Shutdown a machine, and all file descriptors are gone. It's files, one would expect, would still be there.

- you can have multiple file descriptors for a single file.

- you can have file descriptors that aren't 'attached' to a file proper (stdin, stout)
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There is a clear and well understood process for invalidating those patents - prior art.

If you don't believe Apple invented them then come forward and provide some evidence. I would imagine Google and the Android OEMs would throw a few million your way for the trouble.
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The pause button appears after the first time the posts refresh so it won't be there until a few seconds have passed. Look for it top-right over the posts column.
There's a big pause button at the very top right of the stream. Once paused, scrolling works great. How is that at all unusable?
But what I want to know is then how the microphone signal is implemented with the 4-wire system, in addition to playback controls.
This is really very interesting stuff, and what a great site.

Are there any other resources out there that offer code reviews like this? Reviewing others code really is a great way to improve your own.
The world could use less jerks who when they see someone building a sand castle proceed to stomp all over it, and these jerks weren't even brave enough to show their faces.
Like everything else, this advice is highly contextual: in this case, the context depends on where the writer is starting from.

The goal is to write things that come from the heart as well as the brain, that leverage your passions and appeal to an audience, all at the same time. In other words, the goal is, as usual, somewhere in the middle.

If your starting point is that you think nothing of your own passions, interests, and write whatever you think will please an audience, then yes, this advice is right on the ball for you: you should write for you, because it's about you.

If, on the other hand, your tendency is to boldly write what you care about, following your passions and interests and not giving the audience much of a second thought, then the opposite advice applies: write for your audience - because it's about them, not you.

Of course, "write for both the audience and yourself" doesn't make such a good sound bite...

I'm reminded of a quote, by Niels Bohr, I thin, which said that the opposite of a Deep Truth is another Deep Truth...
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Two days ago while booting, the BIOS time on my eeepc was suddenly reset, with an error message on boot to adjust the time manually. Was just thinking that it may be related?
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Thanks for the help Paul
And harddrives cost exactly the same as they did in 2011 (probably depends on which drive you look at, a 3 TB drive cost about the same and a 4 TB drive costs more now).

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It seems your comment's contrast is getting lower by the minute. I wonder why... :)
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> Just what we need: generic advice from Michael Arrington.

"Hate Arrington" seems to be a common attitude on HN recently. What did he do to deserve so much bad will on the Internet?
I found mysqld (5.5.24) running at 159% CPU on a Ubuntu 11.04 (64-bit) box this morning. ntpd had drifted in the leap second between 1am and 2am (GMT) this morning (NTP drift info is one thing I graph with MRTG).

[EDIT] Ah, covered elsewhere. Fixed by manually setting the date on the box; stopping/restarting mysqld or ntpd doesn't make any difference.
That reminds me that by sending an "appreciative email" you can make a blogger happy with little cost. I should do that more often.
I know that Hacker News has that 'go, fix it before I care' mentality, i.e. usually someone submits an article they have written or a product they have on Hacker News. But this is reddit, so feel free to submit whatever you have in mind, and there's only so much time I'm going to put into this. Beyond that, 8/21 isn't that bad considering it's reddit we're talking about.
It's about time someone made a subreddit where all the links and almost all the comments are submitted by themselves.

Not to mention most of the links are months old and hyperbolic rather than factual.
I don't know about you guys but most of the time twitter doesn't work for me at all. I would say 50-60% of the time. I mean the page loads (v-e-r-y slowly) but the tweets don't. I almost of always have to click on "reload tweets" button to see tweets. Several times.

I don't think I have ever seen such clusterfuck of performance in any major site for such a long time.

It has come to the point that I don't even bother clicking twitter links.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ppelffpjgkifjfgnba...

iReader for Chrome is a good Option. I tend to read most articles through it. Other browsers have their alternatives.
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The linked answer is close, but not entirely correct. There isn't a specialized wire for buttons; it uses the microphone line.

Play/pause will usually be connected directly to ground. The other functions connect to ground through different impedances. While each impedance level is roughly twice the last one (which makes the detection circuit simpler) having one level at 1 ohm and the next at 2 ohms is not practical due to noise. Also, due to the way that parallel impedances work, you do not get a binary encoding of the buttons pressed. (Do you ever really want to skip the track and increase the volume at the same time anyway?)
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Alrighty then, keep your blog hidden from view and you'll be just fine.
Maybe those "2 yrs" were the last 2 years of his/her PhD program.

Anyway, maybe s/he entered with a Masters, which could be compulsory for the Euro-style programs, and not counted towards the average length, which may be 3-4 years.
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Has petitioning or protesting a judicial decision ever affected change? I think I would lose faith in the judicial system in such a thing worked.
With ntp stopped, no problem whatsoever
The problem with your response is that both reasonableness and 'adding to a discussion' are subjective concepts. Another comment of mine adds nothing to the discussion, IMO, but has on the order of 7 upvotes. That is in the thread of comments poking fun at Zuckerberg as a sort of sith lord. None of those are particularly thought-out arguments on FB's respect for its users; they are simply snarky insults of the Zuck.

So, if snarky insults are reasonable and add to the discussion, then why is any one of these comments considered differently? (again, a rhetorical question. also, yes i put 'answer' instead of 'question' in the previous comment. my brain got ahead of my fingers. I'm sure you've never done that before, as you are clearly one of the world's top minds).
At the risk of shooting myself, all our jvms were fine on windows and Ubuntu.
The problem here is that we're trying to apply social pressure to a legal problem. Being intensely social creatures, our instincts tell us it should work, or that it's at least worth a shot.

What we're trying to fix is that companies can even get injunctions for stupid reasons, and that patents are used as warfare rather than for encouraging innovation. Boycotting every single company that abuses patents is simply not going to fix the problem, especially since some of those companies don't even sell products.

Look at Righthaven -- a boycott would have been meaningless, but the right case came along and Righthaven lost its teeth. And this only involved two branches of the government! Imagine what you could accomplish if you could actually pass laws to fix the patent system...
The injunction (but not boycotting Apple in response) made the front page via /r/technology fairly recently [1]. Judging from the comments, Redditors hate Apple's behavior fairly uniformly. However, Reddit (especially /r/technology) has a fairly well-known and pervasive bias against Apple, so do keep that in mind if drawing any conclusions.
What kind of startup would you do? Something in the "individual SaaS sales to get into enterprise accounts (e.g. Salesforce)" model?

How do you suggest startups hire those salespeople if they move into enterprise, other than hanging out at the US Open and rolex dealers?
~ Because the pause button doesn't show up until a new entry is added to the list. Which happens after you've already scrolled down the page, so the pause button isn't even visible when it is rendered.

~ Because the pause button is light gray on white.

~ Because scrolling down the page, which in almost every other scrolling interface prevents any updates from affecting your scroll position (terminal, chat, twitter, etc.) didn't help.

~ Because the page just moves in weird, small jumps and feels like it's broken not like new content is rolling in. (They're actually accounting for huge jumps! and chose instead of move it in tiny glitches...)
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I was just wondering why everything stopped working at night. System.exit() didn't work anymore in any of the java processes, or just random hangs.

wow.
In other news: Katie and Tom are getting a divorce ...

Thank you google plus.
No, there's nothing with that. What the author is doing is serving the entire domain (i.e. www.mydomain.com, not just JS+CSS+images) off of CloudFront, so you obviously need a separate host name for the actual server. Hence origin.mydomain.com.

(Note that you need to use a www subdomain for this, or CNAMEs don't work.)
When I saw your iOS demo last week, I considered creating an Android port. Thankfully, I didn't have the time, and your implementation is fantastic for a 0.1.0. Great job!
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great insight!!! perhaps i should've added more clarification in that section. i guess the way i worked best was to learn by producing; i wouldn't have had the patience to do what you did (consuming deeply for three years -> producing one great work). instead, i learned a great deal by producing a series of failed and semi-failed projects, and eventually what i produced got reasonably good.
But that's the problem, isn't it? Even if Google produces prior art, and I wouldn't be surprised if they did (although I haven't actually looked at the patents so I can't be 100% certain), the injunction would still exist.

So yes, there is a well understood process for invalidating patents. And that is, no doubt, going to play a major role in the case. But all that comes after the problem itself--the injunction lasts while people are showing prior art and forwarding any other arguments they have.

So my complete understanding is as follows: the fundamental problem here is the patent system. The issue is that Apple was able to get weak patents and then is able to use those patents to get an injunction on a product before the patents can get tested in court. This lets them leverage a weak hand and ~$100m to weaken their competition, regardless of the patents' actual validity. This, combined with a bunch of other problems with the patent system (oh, let's patent math as long as it's run on some computer!) is why there is a call for patent reform. The reason people are annoyed with Apple is that, instead of being nice, they're abusing a broken system to damage their competition.

Of course, I'm certainly no lawyer and have been following this case only superficially. This is a good summary of what I think is going on, but could have no bearing on reality whatsoever.
I see the biggest problem with "startup advice" is the bias or an outright conflict of interest from most of these "advisors". They are usually trying to sell you something and anything they say has to be heavily discounted on that basis alone.

Incubators/accelerators are going to tell you that (surprise!) going through an incubator/accelerator is the best path to success (forget that most successes happen without incubators).

Angels are going to tell you they are the best source of seed capital (even though many won't do much beside writing one check).

VCs are going to tell you that you cannot scale without them (I am sure Microsoft, Oracle, Dell, etc really regret not being VC-funded).

Retired executives will tell you to do exactly what made them successful without bothering to check if that applies to your situation.

People who failed at something will try to convince you that you are going to fail at attacking the same field (never mind a totally different approach).

Engineers heavily invested in that open source project or the other will say that you are stupid not to use it.

Caveat Emptor! Beware geeks/investors bearing advice!
Why does the title include "on a single wire"?

The current stackexchange question does not use the phrase "single wire" and more importantly nothing about your headphones will work with a single wire.
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Yeah, zero pity for this guy who blows a company secret because he wants to brag about his new job online.

"I thought the NDA only applied to what we were doing, not the entire business unit that hadn't been revealed yet!"

Well, then you weren't paying attention during training.
Could be a browser thing. On chrome I can see pause button as black on light gray. When I scroll down the auto add affect reduces, scrolling down further the content is pretty much stable. I think its a pretty good reading experience on Chrome..
People, this is about whether tomatoes taste bland! From the article: "But the new study, published this week in Science, found that the mutation that leads to the uniform appearance of most store-bought tomatoes..."

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The group of people that use Android and the group of people that are vehemently against Apple overlaps quite a bit, so this boycott costs them nothing. It's a bit of sound and fury slacktivism that makes them all happy but accomplishes nothing.
Maybe they chose it because they wanted to "ease" in the change to prevent the machines from distrusting the time server?