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By drive skills forward on your own, do you mean by working on side projects? If not, you should be looking at innovative ways to use your API through personal projects. Why not create a simple app that uses the API and put it on the app store? Create a mashup with your API and another API. But do something, otherwise you'll have regrets later in life.
Yes property sale is a thing. It's a process. Why can that thing not be modelled as a function? Property sales are rather complicated processes so having a class for it could be justified. But OO forces us to do it that way for every tiny operation. It's pure bloat.
I am sure, they ignored their gut feelings along the way - L&H's bad technology should have rung alarm bells. Also its not known if they met L&H founders - one should be able to smell snakes!

Basically whether you pay a $5M fee or $100K fee. Your business should be your business and not somebody else's business.

Also who in their right mind would agree for a 100% all stock acquisition. Looks like they were also desperate and did not trust their business completely. But still heart goes out to them. Since they clearly were the pioneers in that space, and Nuance became so popular, that even general people having tech interest heard about them, and not many heard of Dragon Systems.
Ask HN: What qualities should you look for in a mentor?
What qualities should you look for in a mentor and whats the best way to approach such people? (I'm based in SF)
I don't believe a user is by default ignorant and I don't treat them as such it also doesn't detract from user experience as now we have session/{create,new,destroy] instead of what this very question presents.
Text editing is something that everyone has a take on. Some want a plain window where they can spill out their thoughts without any interruption, others want all sorts of fancy plugins and shortcuts.
Most of these I Love/Hate __TEXTEDITOR__ posts are about what worked for <insert name here>
Finding YOUR text editor is one of the easiest ways to increase productivity. And as hackers, I think everyone agrees we NEED to be able to write code as fast as our brains churn em out! :)
PS: Vi fanboy here! :D
not the side effects part, which has nothing to do with state

State is a side effect. In fact, that's basically the definition of side effect -- I think you need to revisit the basic principles of formal semantics.

State, as the OP points out, exists in reality but should be eliminated from programming

State is the entire point of programming. State shouldn't be eliminated, it should be corralled so effects are traceable and formalizable.

Objects rely on being mutable. An object-oriented language pushes objects everywhere. This pushes mutation everywhere. This is the opposite of corralled.
How about Connect/Disconnect?
> For all the 17 year old's reading this thread; There is a big difference between programming for yourself and programming for someone else.

I learnt this the hard way when I was 16! Clients can be plain idiotic sometimes!
The first question would be "Is this advice truly coming from programmers?" Even if it is, 'being a better programmer' means different things to different people. Many people are not dedicated to trying to be the best but still identify as a programmer.

If you ask someone how to be a better musician, someone might say "go to more shows", 'hang out and collaborate with other musicians", or "try lots of different instruments". If you ask someone who strives to be the best musician and is world class, they hear the question as "how do I be the best musician" not "how do I be a better musician." Who wants to merely be better? They only know to be the best and will say "practice all night and all day forever". It doesn't mean they are the best or ever will be, but its a different mindset.
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I used to be like that, always spending every moment coding or learning about ways to improve coding (and I did learn and improve a lot). But I also had absolutely no social life and was terribly overweight/out of shape.
I still code in my free time (in fact, I spent much of today playing with Scala and LWJGL), but I make a conscious effort to head out and interact with the world (in as nerdy of a way as possible of course, I have a FuelBand which forces me to go out and be active to keep my streak up).
I love coding (both at work and for fun) and would still do it all day every day if I could, but I found my quality of life increased by leaps and bounds as I picked up the slack elsewhere (not just in fitness, but mentally as well. Especially walking around, hiking, exercise, &c helps clear my mind and refocus). Maybe you're not as totally lost as I was, but until technology advances enough for me to exist as a brain in a vat, I have actually found it very important to get away and engage tertiary faculties not directly related to the generation of sourcecode.
And I'm never too far away from my projects anyway. I tend to have a chromebook/tablet/phone with me running an ssh client and a tmux session always running on my raspberry pi, but typically forget about it entirely unless I have a sudden epiphany).
Thanks Jed, I was unaware of dynamo-client ... I'll make sure to go off of that (exponential back off retry sounds awesome).
It's bad even for those customers who want a result, because they will be hoping that the reputation of the firm reprinting the data will cause others to neglect looking into the figures.

Look what happened here: if either RIM or Microsoft were relying on the data to be under-analysed (not saying they were - just an example!) then it would have blown up in their face fairly spectacularly. And Neilsen is a reputable firm!

Try looking up the Mindcraft Windows NT vs. Linux benchmarks also.
I did something like this a few weeks ago using quotes from a loudly spoken team member.

Previously my workmates and I had started jotting down his sayings, and before we knew it had 2,000 or so entries in a database of the stuff he had said. I ran it though a Markov chain to see what sort of nonsense it would produce. My favorite thing that came out of it so far is the following,

"While I am changing my underwear people should check my email. Its an old Greek saying mate."
Visa, helping shady soveriegn's levy secret and illegal financial warfare against political international opponents since forever. Priceless.
Actually we can change orbit of comets/asteroids if we know few years ahead of time that they will impact with Earth - by bombarding object with few hundreds kilograms of "metal spheres" we cause small change in energy of object, causing it to deviate from its orbit quite a bit in the long run.
No. You usually hold a 7" tablet closer to your eyes than a 10" one. So, for its pixels to appear the same to your poor eyes as pixels on an 246 ppi iPad 3, it must have a pixel density of 290 or so.
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Been using that one too. Hurt like hell the first week. But now that I'm getting used to it I love it.
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I'd have to go with what I consider to be the cautionary tale of FreeBSD, which was far more popular before Apple decided to use it for their OS X kernel without giving anything back, and now seems to have no modern relevance at all. I think it's a pretty good anecdotal argument in favor of the GPL on consequentialist grounds.
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Obligatory self-promotion:

http://guscost.com/2011/04/12/science-analog-confabulation/
It didn't die under its own steam so much as be killed by its parent, though.

Chandler (http://chandlerproject.org/) had a rather fantastic amount of money spent on it as an open-source project to no avail.
I built a bunch of stuff around this for domain names. I should open source it.
Actually having a higher capacity will be tricky, yes. But at least there won't be cell decay in the scientists working 4000 hour weeks to figure it out.
What does it have to do with "Jekyll" in the title?! It reads "Weekend Hack: A Markov Baby Name Generator in Jekyll"
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Apologies, accidentally down voted you on my phone..

Anyway, having grown up on the east coast then spending time both in Seattle and back east off and on, I can vouch for the Seattle freeze being rather real.

And to a certain extent I actually find myself liking it. Moving around too much makes forming deeper relationships risky, they end up being more baggage. I see the freeze as a sort of defensive mechanism against that.
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Ah, neat stuff. I don't use AngelList much. Apparently I am coinvestors with your investors on other stuff.

I really enjoyed the bit where you stayed up all night, redesigned, and bit the bullet. I am finding, repeatedly, that the thing to do is that which was previously uncontemplatable.
Reminds me of how the Affordable Care Act's health insurance requirement was declared legal.
Does anyone know of a JavaScript (or CoffeeScript) library that will read the latest version of the Minecraft files? I wrote some JavaScript code that worked with the old version and then updated it for the version that came after that but haven't had time to get into the new version. Was thinking maybe someone already did it.
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I have a Galaxy Tab 2 7" (which is a mouthful) and read a couple of Hyperink PDFs on it. It was not comfortable. Kindle books work great, and I presume the Hyperink ePub files do too.
Do you ever take hand-written notes on PDFs? This is my killer-app, and I'm desperate to find a tablet that does it well.
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Sam,

I think it is pretty different compared to other mapping apps, and I am an eeGeo shill! :)
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Let's face it, many of us make soul-deadening choices and become much less interesting.

Wonder what could be done to break that vicious cycle
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While I enjoy these statistics just as much as the next guy, it's funny that they rarely talk about an obvious commonality that successful projects tend to have.

The easiest projects to fund are ones that have founders with experience building either a previous version or a functioning product close to the one they want to build, not just a partially working prototype. I would rather fund a project to get manufacturing cost down because everyone benefits from that. Funding to do R&D -- it's just a harder sell for me.

It helps immensely if the product is compelling or solves a problem but the founder(s)' ability to deliver is the main reason why I will invest in a kickstarter project.

If someone comes along and tells me they want to build X product or Y app but have never done such a thing before. The real question I have is, "How did you arrive at $500,000 being the perfect funding requirement?"

It doesn't even have to be a similar product they've built. If Elon Musk did a kickstarter and said he wanted to do deep sea drilling, I would think, "He has done big projects in industries that have entrenched players before."
7" is damn portable. I need dedicated pocket in my bag to hold 10.1" tablet. I can put 7" tablet in any outer pocket or jacket pocket.
I wonder how he'd respond to a non-aggressive, benevolent shared purpose and struggle. How about a mainstream charitable organization that makes soaps out of bombs?
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What I wish it was: honeypot for mindless RT-ers.

What it actually was: I have no idea. Fixed.
I made all my own tools.

No make needed, yet. I can recompile all in 2 seconds.
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Cool! I was thinking of doing that. Where'd you get the startup names database, CrunchBase?
I do know how to turn off Spotlight, but thank you.

My broader point is that it is becoming impossible to truly delete a file or maintain separation between different parts of your data unless you are very technical and meticulous.

How many other features are there in OS X like Spotlight or Versions that we need to be aware of?

The OS should be designed so that we don't need to be constantly on guard for these privacy gotchas.
Keep in mind that all bought reviews are positive.
Not sure how mature it is, but Ekam is a project that thinks in this direction. It's not quite as easy as you believe, but it's definitely possible. http://code.google.com/p/ekam/
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The combination of suburban sprawl, growing populations, and an ever-increasing reliance on automobiles has made for nightmarish commutes in many U.S. cities. To combat the gridlock, some cities are investing in new ways to move residents from point A to point B. Since taking office in 2008, Salt Lake City’s Democratic Mayor Ralph Becker has helped push for greater transit options in his city. As a result, a major expansion of the area’s light rail system, as well as the introduction of streetcars to the city, are currently underway. He recently talked to U.S. News about why his city has invested so heavily in improving transit, and what a successful public transportation system looks like.Our entrepreneurial approach to developing transit and the cooperative approach we’ve had for transit development has enabled an enormous leapfrogging kind of development of transit. Some of it is the way our transit agency is set up. [The Utah Transit Authority is] a statewide agency that local governments opt into, with a sales tax option. It is the taxpayers, the voters, who vote on that contribution to transit, and as we’ve developed light rail, which really is now only 11 years old, people have seen how much they like it and want to use it and use it far beyond projections. They’ve been willing to go to the voting booths and increase taxes on themselves continue
Can't be any worse than the morass that is tax calculation. Even on the US side it can be unbelievably complicated. Take a site I just wrapped up that had nexus in 3 US states, 1 of those states has different sales tax that has to be collected based on the county and town of the purchaser, and another state had a requirement that different goods are taxed at different rates, i.e. a jacket and a fur coat fall in two different categories and are taxed differently.

Like all things web, we ended up using an API for these calculations, from CyberSource in this case. There's no way a few fixed fees could be worse than this mess.
Nice roundup. I recently used CMake for a modestly-sized project. After getting over the initial hump, I've found it to be quite pleasant (the documentation could be a lot better, though).

I find the ability to generate real projects for the various IDEs I use on different platforms to be the key differentiating factor. SCons, by comparison, wants you to set up the IDE to replace its build step with a call to the scons script. It just feels wrong by comparison.
In his review he says that he accidentally has pressed the software buttons while playing games. I don't know about Jelly Bean but on my TF101 ICS there's an explicit option to enable locking/unlocking of the soft buttons if you check the advanced page on the system settings. Once that's enabled, a small "slide to lock" padlock is constantly visibly in the middle of the status bar screen. So the next time when you want to play or something, just slide to lock the soft-buttons.
The user-agent has two implied pieces of functionality:

1) Describe the device that the agent is coming from (operating system)

2) Describe the capabilities of the agent (this browser, those plugins)

One of the things I loathe about the user agent header is the lack of reasonable maximum length, and the inconsistent way in which developers have overloaded the value. Parsing it is difficult (especially given that the length means there is a lot of scope for bad input).

I would love to see user agent be a virtual header comprised of other headers.

The other headers would not be mandatory, but as most browsers would provide them you could reasonably use them in most cases.

These other headers may be things like:

os: Windows
os-version: 7
client: Gecko
client-version: 16
plugins: [{'flash':11}]

Basically... same info but more structure with known acceptable types for certain values.

Headers taking uncompressed space it would also be helpful if shorthand names were accepted: c-v for client-version, etc.

This is me thinking aloud, and perhaps it's an idea that has been thought of before and rejected... but by offering User-Agent as a virtual header that is comprised of all of the other headers you maintain some background compatibility whilst providing something easier to parse, use and trust for developers.
autoconf really isn't that bad...
Author talks about some mysterious elements of force in iPad that Android doesn't have. I am not sure what he means.
I believe organized religion used to sustain social lives for adults, and still does in many parts of the country. Tight-knit communities have been disrupted by economic development and urbanization, but even in a big city you can get to know the people in your congregation very well.
Or increase privacy and/or authentication of posts/messages.
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How many friends does someone need?

About 150:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbars_number

But they don't all have to be real friends. The interesting thing about Dunbar's number is that it also suggests that people strive to make these 150 relationships even when there are not enough people around (i.e. that's why some people care for celebrities and forge online relationships when real life friends are not enough)
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I can't help but think this is a great opportunity for bitcoin, pay online with bitcoin for a 1-2% discount. Makes more sense than ever
Just so you know, I'm looking at this from my Android 4.1 stock browser and the entire page is blinking on and off randomly like some kind of joke. I can't scroll down because it seems as if it's constantly reloading itself.
There are certain message formats which should not be tampered. PGP/MIME attachments (RFC 2015 / RFC 3156) for example, though many mime application attachments generally don't take well to being arbitrarily modified.

Doesn't mean it doesn't happen. But it shouldn't.
It's interesting that no one cries out over the extinction of species that are harmful to us. Not that I mind; some extinctions are good. Reminds me of a passage from a science fiction novel I read a while back.

"No ballads were written of this great battle; the official account was curt to the point of insult:

"'Technologically Super-advanced and Aggressive Alien Species VI Engaged and Genocided.'

"Alien Species II, III, IV and V had fought longer, more spectacular campaigns, but they were just as dead. ...

"For humanity remained, as it had always been, a decisive and a ruthless species. The Government of the Solar Neighbourhood preached peace and liberty, and tolerance for all sentient creatures. But any alien that threatened the wellbeing of humanity would be eradicated, without a second thought. That was the way it always had been, and always would be."

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The culmination of these billions of dollars and research and engineering will be a real life manifestation of 'clippy'.
Objective, to me, means 'not based upon personal tastes, opinions, and biases'. So this review is completely subjective, as it's based entirely upon what he likes. Regardless, it is nice to see him set the homer hat aside and write an article that wasn't either heaping praise on Apple or scorn on Google.

MG Siegler is as subjective as any reviewer, but that's not what matters. What matters is that you can usually tell what he's going to say before you even read the article, as his views are generally that predictable. He seldom has anything negative to say about Apple, or positive to say about Google.

So the pleasant surprise here comes from seeing him break that trend and say something that couldn't have been written by Apple's PR dept.
Updated Lubuntu to 12.04 from 11.10. Extension works now. (Not exactly sure what was going on..)
I haven't had a chance to checkout Sublime Text 2, but that sample prompted me to download it after finding out it has a console that will accept python as a way to install packages.

I'd prefer that to a black-box installer.
But at least merchants will have the choice now. In markets where you're operating on a 3% margin whether they're using amex or not can make or break the deal. Giving the consumer the option to pay a little extra or choose another payment method seems like a better solution than simply blocking amex altogether
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That is an ASUS only thing it seems. I have not seen it on other tablets yet. And it is very useful, especially if you let your kids use the tablet.
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Yes, and under OS X Lion, FileVault2 is apparently a complete rewrite of the earlier FileVault, and it appears to be solid. TrueCrypt is also an excellent (and multi-platform) alternative.

But using whole-disk encryption doesn't invalidate my comments about Spotlight and Versions. When you've logged in (i.e., mounted the encrypted volume), Spotlight and Versions will still be storing pieces of yours files in hidden locations, you still can't truly delete a file without a lot of know-how, etc.
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Ask HN: My iOS game is finished, what should i do next? advice please
video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m_GzP80hDA&feature=plcp

screenshots
http://www.chubcheeks.com/screenshots.html

I haven't submitted yet to the app store.

I am looking for advice from anyone who has done it before. One of the things i am considering is making a video trailer.

How important in marketing for an indie game? Should i be thinking of a marketing budget?

Any other advice on getting traction with sales
"I wonder why growth hacking is so in vogue"...

Maybe Peter Thiel's lecture on distribution has gotten the ball rolling. (To those of you who missed it: http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/22405055017/peter-thiels...) The reason I say this is that just a month ago I wrote a blog post about how inefficiency is an indicator of marketing opportunity, and his lecture was the inspiration.

I suspect we're all looking at the same startup reading material, and it's shaping our thoughts similarly.
On a more flippant level, isn't it pretty obvious that robot ponies are going to be a thing that is possible to have some time in the next century or two? We've already got something that's kind of moving in that direction, and this was a few years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
Yes. I never expected to do it, but I was finally, completely convinced it was the right thing to do, aided by the fact that, at least at that moment, it was the only thing that I could live with.
I can't see what the fuss is. Australia has had this in place for years...
Crazy, I was looking for a similar tool earlier today. I've been using Mongoose for MongoDB validation/schema and wanted a similar system for DynamoDB.
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As a weekend project, I put together something vaguely resembling a "Sinatra for Erlang".
I had a bunch of sources. None with really good results, so it didn't really matter... I should work on it more. I have a much more expansive idea involving big relationship graphs and whatnot, but actual startup is taking up too much time. Someday.
According to http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=328795820483403 (which is the official Samsung channel) ICS should be on the following tablet devices now: GALAXY Tab 10.1, GALAXY Tab 8.9, GALAXY Tab 7.7 and GALAXY Tab 7.0 Plus.

That's from December 2011, but sometimes there oddities in the rollout, especially with regional variants.
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