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I think the advice folks are posting here is very good. I'm about a week into the process of incorporating a company and trying to figure out how in the hell I'm going to do this.

While not particularly novel advice, the one thing I can advise (and I have to remind myself of this constantly) is to be cognizant of whether your spending too much time focusing on the inconsequential things (which seem psychically easier to deal with) than the important things.

In my case, I'm still trying to figure out a plan for getting initial work (which you might imagine is a pretty important thing), but I found myself debating for days about my new logo (which is pretty much guaranteed to never be looked at by anyone for longer than a few seconds at the top of my web page).

I've also spent hours figuring out systems for how I'm going to handle invoicing, client management, output delivery, branding and marketing, etc.

All of those things are certainly important to do, but I find it's way too easy for me to focus my energy on them, instead of the elephant in the room.

Good luck though.
I think an overlooked category here is small, cheap Linux-based routers running something like OpenWRT. A great example is TP-Link's TL-WR703N which is as little as $24USD.

It has very little RAM and memory, but OpenWRT is an excellent, stable and simple Linux distribution for making internet connected devices and interfacing with other hardware as well through a USB port. It also allows for easy scripting with Lua and beyond that, Lua can also be used with LuCI to create MVC web applications inside these tiny computers, with Wifi built in!
Perhaps for the next destination equal rights for the inhabitants should also be considered?

I hope the non-Jews of their company don't get the Al-Araqib treatment.

http://mondoweiss.net/2012/06/al-araqib-demolished-for-the-3...
FAQ on "Race" as University Admission Factor in United States
RSS is Dead. Long live RSS
Wow, that's not something you see much on the Internets! Well, then, I also appologize for misjudging you and for getting so riled.
Pretty much just visitor stats (not that those aren't important!)

It doesn't make sense to use User Agent string for anything that someone might have a reason to game since it's so trivial to change them.
If he's an academically qualified hacker but can't afford an Ivy, why'd he go to Georgia instead of Georgia Tech?
Run Android on Windows with BlueStacks
You left out the most important piece of information: Which GPU, and which drivers?
m0nastic

my natural state is to never want to leave the house under any circumstances

Coincidence? :)
Works great on Firefox (16 nightly here).
ctrl + t swaps text, for example foo(bar) if you place the cursor before the parenthesis and press ctrl + t it will become bar(foo).

ctrl + m when in a bracket sets the cursor to it's matching bracket.

ctrl + up or ctrl + down scrolls the document up or down.

ctrl + g goes to a line.
Free access to British scientific research to be available within two years
RT also did an awesome program with Assange while he was under house arrest:

http://assange.rt.com/
The why is so much more interesting. Part of it is a product of topology, visualize this pattern: home, car, work, car, home. There's not a lot of surface area in there to meet someone. This is a product of America's lack of streets, we have roads not streets. Roads are for cars, streets are for people. Some good reading on this subject is, "The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community", and of course "Streets for People, A Primer for Americans".
Some of it is here: http://www.maedastudio.com/

People sometimes look at his work and think it's very simplistic and/or retro. Part of the art is the process it took to get there.
my solution: travel

1) you meet a lot of people while traveling (quantity)

2) you and them are out of context (and out of existing social circles)

3) all are a little bit more relaxed

4) you start pretty fast talking about things that are interesting without (social circle / insider) background information - you can filter them for quality (if they are interesting enough for do friendship follow ups)

from the last 5 years about 80% of the new people i now call friends i met during traveling
All the more reason to move away from IE, if your market doesn't really require it :-)
Given the option between text editor talk and TechCrunch reposts, I'll take the editor posts every single day.

I love when HN is about making stuff, instead of yapping about Apple or Google or MS. People talking about their tools is great, even when it's well-trodden ground.
The new Air maxes out at 8GB[1]. It's the Retina MBP that maxes out at 16GB.

[1] I have the i7 model, and absolutely love it. It replaced a mid-2009 15" MBP for me. I would've gotten an Air much sooner but absolutely need 8GB RAM. If 16 had been available for it, I would have gotten that instead.
I would say HN has expanded in the type of readers. I enjoy a good discussion about text editors, and have enjoyed the ones about _TEXT_EDITOR_, but I do not recall any of those text editors posts resulting in a text editor flame war. If _TEXT_EDITOR_ is not your thing, nor is picking which text editor is the best, just skip the articles. I see only 1 text editor post on the front page right now. I only recall seeing 5 articles on text editors the last few days.

tl;dr
I like _TEXT_EDITOR_ but skip the articles if you don't care about how you flip your bits.
In Google Reader, you can click the arrow on a folder and select "Create Bundle" to create a "Bundle", which is just a link other Reader users can use to add the feeds to their subscriptions. It also creates an OPML file though, which can be imported into most RSS readers.
...just that "the government should just let private parties come to whatever agreement they want regarding housing" is an untenable position...cholera outbreaks, riots...

You'll note that I asked specifically about cases like heating/min size requirements which have nothing to do with externalities (such as disease outbreaks or fire spreading). So why bring them up?

Without than minimum standard, the financial incentive would exist to race properties to the bottom, and while some renters clearly would benefit from the increased choice in living expenses, many more renters would be harmed either by (a) being locked by the market into substandard housing,

This claim is not observed in reality. In virtually every market segment including housing, you see a race to meet demand in all market segments, from the top to the bottom.

The only way there would be a race to the bottom is if virtually everyone wanted something cheaper than what is currently available and were willing to sacrifice quality to get it. I.e., if the minimum size requirements are hurting almost everyone. Do you believe this is the case?

(b) being dragged by their parents or spouses into substandard housing

This seems like an extremely roundabout way of imposing minimum parenting standards. An extremely obvious way and far simpler way would simply be to forbid parents to bring their children into dorm-sized apartments.

(c) losing their homes when property ownership changed hands and more profit was wrung out of their current houses.

Um, this usually happens when landlords want to turn cheaper housing into more expensive housing. I.e., upgrade the projects to luxury apts. Should we also impose quality ceilings on housing? If not, why not?
The smaller these become the more the ports and jacks stick out like a sore thumb.
I'd never get through their gauntlet.
Which Navigational Model Do You Use?
What is the the difference with http://www.librarything.com/ ? Are you targeting the same target? Why would I switch (I m a lifetime member there)?
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Do you solicit and attempt to meet your employees' workstyle preference? Specifically, can those who benefit from or require a quiet work environment get one? (This is not anti-collaboration; it is simply anti-noise and physical distraction.)

As an admittedly anecdotal perspective, the majority of the best developers I've worked with have expressed a strong desire for this -- even as and because we have struggled with cubification, shrinking cubes, and other management "best practices".

A side-product of this was finding/accessing them online in the evening, after they'd driven home, had dinner, and ensconced themselves to achieve some real focus.
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FSF recommendations considering Secure Boot
Remember, that's "R" as in "Russia", which really isn't a region renowned for reliable reporting.
So, what are navigational models?

They’re how webpages or views (mobile) link together to form an application or website. And how users navigate those apps or websites.
Nope, didn't hurt my feelings at all, I was trying to help you learn the ropes.

My comment was really pretty clear, and easy to follow, ST doesn't have a code formatter, you know, like textmate and eclipse do. It's a feature that lets you take poorly aligned code that is difficult to read, and fix up the alignment a la K&R et al. Hope that's clear enough for you :)

If you want to find out if someone is a newcomer, you can click on their profile and see pretty easily.
Octogit
> I've never understood the difference between rationalization and circumstance.

Let's start there. Circumstance is a fact, rationalization is a story you tell yourself. Of course there is all types of rationalization and all types of stories. In this case though, your circumstance and your personal narrative are combining with a pessimistic quality. Pessimism is not always bad, it may be a good hedge against disappointment.

In this case you are taking it too far though. You could just as easily be telling yourself a positive story about your ability to execute on side projects while holding down a day job, or the fact that you are young and have low expenses, or that you are fortunate enough to be passionate about one of the few careers that's not shrinking these days, or even the fact that you won the birth lottery. It actually doesn't matter what you tell yourself though, as long as it helps maximize your potential. You could be the richest white kid in Beverly Hills or the poorest peasant in China, your attitude is the greatest thing you can control that can affect your circumstance. That doesn't mean the rich kid has much chance of being a billionaire or the peasant can reasonably hope to make $50k/year, but within their respective circumstances, attitude and action can make a world of difference.
Tech was ridiculously cheap as an in-state student in the late 80s. Pretty much everyone graduated with no debt even then.

MIT was $16,000 a year when I looked at it at the time, I believe. I'm having a hard time remembering the details of their financial aid, but they had some need-based assistance on a sliding scale. You'd end up owing several $10s of thousands, which everyone said you'd "easily" pay off once you got a job out of there, which is likely mostly true. Still, it was an intimidating amount to a lower-middle class kid. It's telling I didn't go there and still have the cost fixed in my head.

My high school counselors/teachers were sort of limited in their knowledge of the upper end of the scale. MIT was all I ever heard about in terms of out-of-state tech schools. All the rich kids went Ivy League, and all the other smart kids went to GT. The Naval Academy had a special aura for a few. A couple people in my class went to Harvard, but no one ever talked about it in terms of a technical education.

No one from my high school went to a school in California. I was aware of Caltech, not that I could have found Pasadena on a map. I knew the name Stanford, but only because of its physics department, and literally did not know what state it was in.

I've made sure my teenage niece is at least aware of what the top schools are.
Coming off conceited doesn't make him wrong regarding CS curriculum. He believes that people should have strong underpinnings in functional programming principles before learning oop. I think fp plays off required math classes pretty well.

Consider function composition which is commonly taught in required pre-calc courses.

f(x) = ......

f(g(x)) = ......

I will submit that first-class functions map more directly to function composition than polymorphism does. In turn, this background helps new developers have a stronger understanding of polymorphism and when to use it.

Whether or not fp principles were ever "proven to produce good software, or any software at all" is besides the point. What's more important is whether or not fp ideas make for better DEVELOPERS. Maybe they do.
It is in fact rewarding, and something of a corrective to the viewpoint of the OP, to page through the first pages of the Principia you linked to.

Doing this helps to understand why going back to some original sources is not very rewarding at all. The 1600s were a long time ago.
Interesting to see that those missives show really good grammar, spelling and formatting for the most part, differently from today's standards where orthography has somehow become optional. Even for educated people in this field.
Another GT alumni here; I totally get the "I got through it..." mentality of the above. However, Georgia Tech is generally seen as one of the absolute best values (especially for in-state students) available in Engineering schools. Even without the HOPE scholarship (which I lost after 3 semesters due to too much partying and never having learned to actually study after breezing through high school) it was insanely cheap when considering the quality of the programs and stature of the school.

I'm not sure what the costs are for out-of-state; so, the value proposition may not be there in that case.
I'm much more of an applied mathematician these days, but IIRC, the usage is especially prevalent in 19th century (and earlier) number theory, most often by authors who take the "natural numbers" to be {1,2,3,...} and therefore require a name for the set {0,1,2,3,...}.

I have definitely come across the usage in more modern settings as well, however.
Not to be overly contrarian, but I wonder to what extent the setting matters. I don't know all the details, but it sounds like it was a workplace yoga studio. What if the call was a work-related emergency?

One of the virtues of having an on-site yoga studio has to be that you can take a break during the workday... but if there's a reasonable expectation of being reachable, asking everyone to leave work at the door 100% isn't totally realistic (and might mean that some people can't participate).

So while the normal rules of courtesy still apply, and the person receiving the call should probably step out if the call looks like it's going to drag on, the setting does matter.
The name was suggested to me many many years ago on IRC, but I'm sure it resonated at least partly because of the way I'm wired. ;)
This is silly. If you're in a class, and you disagree witih how the teacher runs things, you stop taking the class. I'd be shocked if Facebook didn't have multiple instructors.

That being said, I'd hardly be shocked if there was to the story than Good Morning America is letting on.
Here is a better example:

X = acquiring company, worth $2B ($1B in debt, but future earnings valued at $3B)
Y = acquired company, worth $1B ($0 debt, $1B future earnings)

Merger:

X+Y = $3B (+ some factor account for cost savings or new revenue streams)

Company X was lying about their sales:

X+Y = $0B ($0B from future earnings, $1B in debt + $1B from company Y)

Company declares bankruptcy and debtors come in and get every asset with any value. Shareholders value = $0.
I noticed that too. It's a real-life "The operation was successful but the patient died".
>It's a feature that lets you take poorly aligned code that is difficult to read, and fix up the alignment a la K&R et al. Hope that's clear enough for you :)

I linked you to plugins that do that. Also, you can find other such plugins through the site I linked for you. I wasn't inferring that you were a newcomer to Hacker News, I was inferring that you were new to this kind of technology in general (sort of freshmen level). And because my profile is two months old, doesn't mean I haven't been on Hacker News much longer. I'm glad I didn't hurt your feelings :)
>Friendship is really like any kind of relationship: you're expected to give and to receive. If it goes only one way, it will eventually stop going any way at all.

The whole area of transactional psychology is based on that idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_analysis
According to a forum-goer who reported it to Apple, they are aware Turbo Boost isn't properly being initialized during Windows boot and will be issuing a firmware update.
In fact frames was introduced in Netscape 2, released after IE2.
Specs (do you write down how stuff works? ... how to troubleshoot at 3 AM?) would be a good addition. It's a good list, though I don't see it becoming any more or less relevant when using Perl.
That may be less a West Coast / East Coast thing and more a California thing in particular. I say that because my family hosted a couple of exchange students from France who were really struck by the veneer of friendliness here, and the very real distance that people maintained beneath it.

Later, when I went to France, I found that there was an initial aloofness that I mistook for vague dislike. But after a while, this went away and what I found instead was a much more substantial and very real affinity.
Its hard to decide whether to get this or a Raspberry Pi, talking to someone who has a Raspberry Pi, they have found that running even a graphical interface like lxde is slow and involves a lot of hacking.

Although I fully expected this, I wonder whether I've outgrown that sort of fooling around, and would rather play with something a little bigger like this, which packs a (slightly) bigger punch.

Not sure what I want from either device, other than something that could be another thing to play with.
You chose UGA (a quiet state school) over GT (a world class research university) because GT was too abrasive and you know a friendly prof at UGA? To me, this undermines your position more than anything else. You have set yourself up to get by without learning or trying too hard. If true, you are only arguing against the Ivy League bias because you are on the losing side of it, not because it is misguided.

Where were those? I'd love to go kill those links.

Seriously? man grep and "to hell with (the University of) Georgia!"
I've found that joining clubs (either informal, like the climbing club I was a member of) or formal (like the Odd Fellows or Masons or Kiwanis) is a great way to meet friends. You still have to deal with the time issues, but at least you don't have tensions of work--and as a plus you get to meet people with different types of employment and age.

However, the main issue is that when you are in college and your early 20s, you tend have gobs of time to make friends--once you hit a certain age (or marital status or child status) other activities come first. Might as well celebrate the closeness with your family or your work achievements as kvetch about the difficulty of making friends.

I'm in my mid 30s.
BBC also just did a special with a team catching Sprites above a storm in slow motion as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF2gW2g5qKM

(sadly the quality isn't the best, go to ~2 min left in the video for the best part)
Kinect + Skateboard = Chaotic Moon Labs' Board of Awesomeness
Steli is right - in some cases. However, I have always wondered CRM systems are built with B2C subcribtion products in mind? In most cases it is hard to apply this CRM process to for example B2B distribution of phycsical goods. B2B orders usually require tons of seller/buyer collaboration and configuration. The only way to solve this is to combine CRM with B2B e-commerce platforms where orders can be collaboratively configured. Anybody tried a solution like that?
To me, it's not even about that.

It's about one person feeling they have the right to carry on as a noisy nuisance in that environment, to the detriment of everyone else's experience.

If the person's activity was silent, making the only social breach ignoring the instructor, I'd be much less likely to consider that a problem in need of addressing.
Q&A with Cory Booker (Newark NJ, #waywire)
HTTP/2.0 already exists. It's called SPDY.

The IETF really dropped the ball here. People have been complaining about HTTP's problems for over a decade, but the IETF couldn't even come up with a standard. Usually the problem is adopting a standard, not creating it.

Lately, it seems like standards bodies are lagging. The W3C has a similar problem. Browsers implement new CSS properties. Eventually, the W3C picks the standard name for the new CSS property. I'm betting something similar will happen with HTTP/2.0. Eventually, the IETF will approve SPDY as the new standard.

A side note: It used to be that browsers wouldn't add support for a new protocol because web servers didn't support it. Web servers wouldn't add support because browsers didn't support it. Now that Google has a significant chunk of the browser market and serves a significant chunk of web traffic, they've solved this chicken-and-egg problem. They can coordinate roll-outs, then let everyone else play catch-up.
There is a vim plugin that provides arbitrary multiple line edit.

https://github.com/alfredodeza/plexer.vim
My Programming Soul Mate In Miami? 
I'm a marketer and designer looking to meet a partner engineer in Miami. Although I have an idea now - I'm really just looking for a long term fit so that we can work together until we have a tech hit.

E-mail me at chris@targetlocals.com if your interested in meeting up and just hanging out.
No, but I don't care. There are some languages that are similar to languages I already know (e.g. Russian to Slovene, or Danish to English and German), some are different (Chinese, Arabic), so they will inevitably take a long time... But I'm not motivated by knowing languages, that is not my goal, learning languages is more important.

In any case, I don't think that the amount of time spent learning matters much, immersion is what is really important. If I ever go somewhere where I'm forced to speak a language for 2 weeks or so, I will learn much more than 6 months studying alone.
Notice I said "won" the US market.

Paypal is still completely dominant in the US. Amazon Payments? Google Wallet? They're no where near even proving better than Paypal in local competition.
What is a method in Java? Why are they used?
There's a very simple solution to this problem: the cell phone user should politely walk out of the classroom and take the call outside the door. It sounds like the student in question took the call right in the classroom, which is rude regardless of the setting. Imagine taking a call in the middle of a meeting, in a conference room!
1. Why does every thread about FizzBuzz-esque problems always drive people to prove that they can solve the problem that is by definition minimum-competency.

2. The first is far more quickly solved by definition of the additive inverse, anyway.
Object Oriented Programming in Java