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I seem to have totally hijacked this, so what's the harm with another Nemesis story:

We took CS201 (discrete math) together. One test was exactly one problem long and scheduled for a 90 minute class period. The core insight was that it decomposed into "Take the product of all f(N) together for N = 1 through N = 25", where f(N) was something looking vaguely algebra 2-y. Hand calculation looked like it would take, oh, north of an hour.

On inspection of f(N), I noticed that it contained the term "(BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH) * (.5N - 11) / (BLAH BLAH BLAH)". This obvious makes f(22) 0, thus making simplifying the expression or calculating f(1..21) and f(23..25) then multiplying rather moot.

Now, our professor was not a very tricksy guy, so I figured "Hah, betcha didn't see f(22) coming now did you" was not exactly his style, so I went back to check my assumptions. But they were, unquestionably, right.

So I went up approximately 4 minutes into the exam and said "Umm, sir, I'm done." He looked surprised. I said "If you're surprised, then I think there's a bug in the problem." He said I had probably made an arithmetic mistake and I would hate to lose all credit for the test.

Back to seat. Checked setup of expression. Nope, sorry, it was absolutely mathematically unavoidable that (.5N - 11) was in there.

So I went back to the prof, now 5:15 into the 90 minute long test, and said "Sir, I really think I'm right here. I'll take the zero if I botched this -- can you take a look for me right now?" So he looks it over for 20 seconds, smiles, says "That is what I get for having grad students write my exams" (this quote is literally accurate), and takes my exam.

I had a friend in the class with whom I was going to go to a study group after the test was over. Not having anything else to do, I waited for him.

Twenty minutes later, Nemesis exits the class -- "first" to finish the test, naturally. Without prompting, he says "Don't feel bad, not everyone can hack discrete math. No reason to waste time on the exam if you're not going to get the right answer." "Ahh, out of idle curiosity, what did you get?" "It's complicated but..." biggest smile of my college career
Cool, now I know that Apple routers use the same OS as Curiosity.
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Looks good, I have been looking for something as simple as this to keep some local documentation.

Would love to see URLs to different folders and documents instead of just '/#' in the browser. That would made it possible to make a "table of contents" page etc.
2. The actual link is http://dribbble.com/shots/468176-Icon-Sublime-Text-for-theme...

Edit: I missed your #3, so my #1 is actually wrong. But I'll leave it here in case someone wonders how you can 'Add Repository' as it was not mentioned in the article.

1. He has forked the Aqua theme and added a nice, "folder" icon to the sidebar. It's what I always wanted (maybe I hate it when I use it, but I think I'll love it). Screenshot: http://sublimetext.userecho.com/s/attachments/201203/i_190.p... relevant discussion: http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/19274-theming-of-the-s...

Press command-shift-p, select 'Package Control: Add Repository' and type git@github.com:mrappleton/aqua-theme.git then change the theme in user preferences (command+,).
Yep, our backup/second link will be a Nanobridge-M5, the primary is using 38ghz DragonWave kit. Nat (who wrote that blog post)
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Somehow I suspect the long-term economic benefits of investing in the technology capable of sending the Curiosity rover to Mars are greater than those from building some sports buildings that are pretty much exactly the same as some built 4 years ago in another city and will be repeated again in another 4 years in some other city.
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Wait, if that's illegal, how on earth can the US reasonably co-operate on such things as the ISS?
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I wonder if the time taken is because it must use very tiny amounts of power, and survive at such a low temperature. They may be using a very slow processor, or a special low-power, low-temperature NAND or whatever variant.
I'm glad to hear that. I'm entering my senior year of Economics and I didn't discover that I enjoyed programming until I took an introductory C++ course last semester. The other day I found myself worrying that I had already missed out on my chance, since I can't currently afford any additional semesters.

I'd like to return to study computer science some day, and in the meantime I'm just doing the best I can to learn on my own.
Sure. One can avoid using gendered pronouns in generic contexts. As a writer, one doesn't have to use them at all if one doesn't want. Indeed "one" makes a fine indefinite pronoun when used properly.

My own style is to use he as super-generic (i.e. bordering on the proverbial), "one" as personal, shared person perspective generic ("one" in this case doesn't differentiate between first and third person, and has some aspects of second person imperative thrown in), and "he or she" as highly descriptive generic.

It works very well. I use "one" most often, "he or she" rarely, and "he" only occasionally. What I hate doing however is having to explain that by "man" I mean it in its original sense. That's why I prefer to say salesman over salesperson, etc. -man never carried with it gender assumptions. If it did, we wouldn't have the root in the word "woman." Now -wif did. Which is one reason why referring to an "alewife" as a female bartender is somewhat archaic.
Actually... the other article that three14 linked to enumerates the reasons here: http://www.goodthink.com/writing/view_stories.cfm?id=11&...

Quote:

Manuel went on to inform me of things that further amazed and intrigued me:

* According to Commercial Paper Law the money was now legally mine, because all checks are first assumed to be valid -- and the way a bank invalidates a check is by serving the depositor with a timely notice of dishonor. Considering that it took my bank 33 days to tell me my check had been returned, he did not think they had dishonored the check in time.

* Fraudulent checks ARE a different manner. But he said, "Since you deposited the check 'thinking there was no chance it would cash, and without even endorsing it' -- you didn't commit fraud."

* Getting the cashier's check was also not an act of fraud, since the bank had previously assured me the check could no longer be returned.

* There are two practices of law as seen through the eyes of a court: (1) Black Letter of Law, where the court rules strictly by the law (and I would be awarded the money) and (2) Chancery Courts, also known as Courts of Compassion, where the court disregards the law when it is deemed non-sensical. He said that, "Easily a court could disregard the law and give the money back to the bank because really you have no claim to this money from an equitable sense of the law." And then he added, "And when it's an individual vs. a Bank, I'm sorry to say that courts usually side with the bank."
I swear the entirety of this story used to be online. I suppose he took it off to help his sales, and I'm too lazy to find a cached version.
Kids these days! Do you know how much compute power was on the moon missions? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer Or the Space Shuttle? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP-101

Strip away all the crap (Linux, Windows, OSX, they're all the same in this respect) and 300 MIPS/256M would be plenty of power for anyone. The old Amiga delivered a multitasking GUI in 256K of memory and approx. 1 MIPS!
It's a kinda odd implementation. To quote:

Once per day, we take a fresh look at your experiment to see how each of the variations has performed, and we adjust the fraction of traffic that each variation will receive going forward.

So not exactly a fresh look... I imagine this limitation is due to Google Analytics' infrastructure. They still don't have good real-time support, so I expect they're running their bandit algorithm on their batch infrastructure. Still, good to see the biggest player moving forward.

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We still have cheques in germany. They're rarely used and of limited usefulness in most cases, but if you want to hand over large amounts of money, they can be useful [1]. Our Ex-President Wulff notably received the loan for his house via check.

[1] Auctions for example, where the payment must be delivered immediately and cash would be impractical. Usually, in that case, a "Bundesbankscheck" is used which is as good as cash: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best%C3%A4tigter_Bundesbank-Sch...
Just a guess but if you are running your site on a single server you're going to hit other bottlenecks in things such as your application code or database, your http server, or disk contention, or RAM starvation, before SSL encryption becomes the overriding one.
Why do you need a specific reason?

If you feel you are worth more money, starting quoting projects appropriately. The market will respond with data ( or lack thereof) which you can incorporate.
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Email sent. I would love something like this that's free and open.
There's a reasonably well known scam where BadBob will order £2,500 worth of goods. The cheque will be sent, made out for £12,500.

BadBob then calls and tells you to cash the cheque, send the goods when the cheque clears, and to just money transfer the excess when the cheque clears.

As this story shows a cheque clearing means almost nothing. The bank will discover the fraudulent cheque, normally a long time after you've sent the goods and the extra cash to BadBob, and they will take the money off you.

You are out the time; the goods; and the extra cash.
Most people are complaining about the headline, but it is in line with what Woz is saying:

"I really worry about everything going to the cloud," he said. "I think it's going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be a lot of horrible problems in the next five years."

He added: "With the cloud, you don't own anything. You already signed it away" through the legalistic terms of service with a cloud provider that computer users must agree to.

"I want to feel that I own things," Wozniak said. "A lot of people feel, 'Oh, everything is really on my computer,' but I say the more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the cloud, the less we're going to have control over it."

I wouldn't be surprised if many people around HN do not agree with Woz. After all the cloud is how many here earn their living.

That said, Woz is absolutely right. I wish more people of his standing would speak up.
They might have just Photoshopped an image of a check the company had laying around, in which case the routing details, etc, would all be correct for some unlucky entity out there.
Pollution will eventually be a problem in any given orbit, which is a shame, because orbits tend to happen around interesting places we want to go.
Remind me why we still have cheques in our banking system?
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If you look at what he is selling in his blog though it's a few hours of consulting time here and there as a mentor, imparting expertise on others.

I don't think $1000/hr is a fuck you rate for expert assistance of that sort. I don't know if I would consider him an expert worthy of hiring at that rate but I could see others doing it.

Here's a case where I could see $1k/hr making a big difference (granted I think the customer only paid $200/hr for this but it would have been work $1k/hr if necessay). We had a stored procedure that was performing really badly, and needed some advice on what to do better. I spoke with a database expert for approx an hour and he explained what was probably happening and gave me some pointers to fixing it. If I was trying to fix it on my own, it would have been a week's effort at least because the problem was not in a single statement but poor performance as an emergent property of several hundred or thousand statements running in a specific order and throwing off caching.
> I wouldn't be surprised if many people around HN do not agree with Woz. After all the cloud is how many here earn their living. That said, Woz is absolutely right.

There's a weird split. People running a service do not want to have to depend on a 3rd party service; but they do want to encourage other people to depend on the service that they are providing.
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How do you find higher paying clients for example?

How do you push the upper boundary of how much you can charge without turning away all your leads?
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Privacy is the big reason I don't put anything really private in "the cloud." I don't care how good the security is, ultimately humans run these services, and humans are corruptible.
See three14's post[1] in this thread. He gives the link - the story is still online:

http://www.goodthink.com/writing/view_stories.cfm?id=11&...

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4344785
The fact that there were any images at all is a testament to the awesome engineering done on the MSL project. There was no guaranty that any images would be available from the Hazcams. The images were broadcast up to Opportunity orbiting above because the MSL was on the other side of Mars and does not have a direct line to Earth. The Opportunity was also about to go over the horizon so it also was going to lose contact. It was a masterful ballet of engineering and precision timing. What a great achievement.
My issue with this has less to do with the rate and more to do with the overall tone of it. Sam has done some excellent work, no doubt, and should charge whatever rate he finds appropriate. However, the presentation of this is likened to a gold cufflink clad lawyer with a monogramed shirt who proclaims with a laugh, "I don't get out of bed for less than a grand an hour," as he sips the brandy and takes a draw on the Cuban cigar before expelling its smoke in your face.
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Some of the space shuttles were using core store memory.

That's kind of boggling; all those connections and wires and ferrite cores all being jiggled around during rough launch and land.
What about signatures? Surely the signature has the match the one on file or the cheque bounces?
A couple of people have already linked to the author's website where the original story is, but for those of you who (like me) read the FT article and then wanted the ending... rather than reading the entire, rather lengthy, story (which begins at http://www.goodthink.com/writing/view_stories.cfm?id=11&...) you can skip right to the conclusion at http://www.goodthink.com/writing/view_stories.cfm?id=11&... - just the first few paragraphs.
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The easiest way to raise your rates is to raise your rates.

Totally not joking. One of the reasons tptacek and I go on the war path about this is that us geeks seem to be culturally abominable at properly pricing things. I mean, half the comments on the $1,000 an hour rate are people who a) are geeks selling services and b) want the geek to lose.

There are other ways to raise your rates:

1) Specialize in a particular thing which is in-demand by...

2) ... savvy clients who receive a high, easily quantifiable value from it and ...

3) ... has limited competition available.

But even HNers who do, e.g., commodity PHP web development could probably get 50-100% more just by turning down anyone who doesn't pay 50-100% more.
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I agree that PHP is good for "personal" development. But for large-scale system, PHP is far from a good option. By large-scale I mean there need many developers working on many modules interoperating with well-defined interfaces.

There are simply other languages which have all the goodness you mentioned of the "Personal Home Page"(PHP) language, as well as some more advangtages over PHP in a long term development procedure.
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Now that I have read the full story, your memory is at fault, and that is not a fair or reasonable summary.
This has been done. Off the top of my head: Thomas Fuchs (http://script.aculo.us/thomas/ $800/hr). I even think this was posted to HN.
>but the primary concern is similarity. //

Absolutely not. [Provably] Not copying is an absolute defence.
OS X postfixes files that are being downloaded with .download – so if you're looking at a file, you should see if it's done or not.
I remember seeing this before, and for curiosity's sake went for a look: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3546149 (Posted six months ago.)

Was this, umm, the same weekend?
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Those modems would negotiate as well. 56K was the best they would do. I don't think I ever saw one actually connect at that rate. I would get 46-48 Kbps. So perhaps my real bandwidth was a bit less that 3 KHz or maybe my line was a bit more noisy.
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Well, Im still trying to work out why people are trusting storage clouds at all. Personally, and that means for me, I see no practical use and only danger. Outages, ownership, authority snooping, seizures, hacking, etc, etc. And then I read something here about a cloud hack being used to wipe computers, tablets and phones. (And don't give me crap about misunderstanding it, I don't need to understand it to be freaked out by the general plot as it were) All I'm told is that some how a cloud is convenient. Leaving my front door open is convenient, but also stupid.

If I were to use a cloud to store files, I would treat it like my hard drive, ie, I would want to back it up. Nothing vital to me would ever sit in or on a cloud. I've seen too much go wrong to ever trust them.

Overall, I just don't understand why people who have decent, cheap local storage and back up ability already, while retaining complete control, would suddenly hand all their vital data over to somewhere where you lose all control. Even if I want to get my data from elsewhere on the net, I have a cheapo Iomega drive that allows that easily. This cloud lark simply makes no sense to me at all. It just looks like another corporate data grab, which added snooping.

Cloud = Kings New Clothes. I feel like the little boy.
Humans do not invest in, nor do they take care of or clean up things they cannot own.

These seem rather quaint concepts when talking about space.

Unlike the oceans or our home-planet, space is vast. Apart from some tiny areas where cleaning is mandatory (e.g. our own orbit, or common travel-routes) it just doesn't care about the scales of waste that we can possibly shoot in any general direction.

Yes, corporations will own things in space, e.g. planets that we will mine for resources.

But space itself is indeed best likened to the oceans. We'll pollute it just like the oceans, but in this case it will (gladly) most likely not matter.
Truth be told, I've never seen someone here in NYC who espoused the above views, or have read them. In fact, most people I've met look down on women who don't have careers.

A google search of "women should stay at home" gives mostly people critical of the viewpoint. Could you like to me to someone supporting stay at home women?
> It takes <1 hour to write a Firefox extension that modifies its UI

Not for anyone using Firefox. Browser software is not just for developers, in fact, the majority of the users is not developers. I think this discussion was from a regular users default point of view of the Downloads window.
Jim Lovell's account of Apollo 13, Lost Moon describes reprogramming the computers in-flight...in machine code. And there wasn't even a Workbench interface, just three digit messages for output. The programs were sent instruction by instruction to the crew, who wrote them down and verified each one - all subject to the delay caused by distance.

The book has so much more great stuff for nerding out than the movie, that it's worth a read.
Obviously it's a hack but it wouldn't be that hard to set up an IFTTT email alert to a dedicated account, parse the email for a specified code you set when creating the alert and then do whatever you wanted...
I'd also prefer a clean break, something clean like ARM (although it's getting dirtier).

But the Itanium that intel moved on to? That isn't a clean break. It's a mistake. I'm so happy that AMD was able to force them to make something useful instead.
How do you find higher paying clients for example?

There's many ways to do this. One way is to figure out who has ability and desire to pay for things in your area of expertise. I help folks sell software. One way to find people who are capable and desire to pay $$$$ for selling more software is to go to conferences about that that charge, e.g., $2,000 per ticket. If you send a team of five people to that conference, you're not too likely to be scandalized when I quote you.

How do you push the upper boundary of how much you can charge without turning away all your leads?

The lowest risk way to do this is to have all of your needs met at your current utilization level, at which point decreasing your hit rate basically can't harm you, so why not quote higher? If you get engagements at $CURRENT_RATE + 25%, then a) your new rate is $CURRENT_RATE + 25% and b) you've got even more flexibility in turning down engagements.

Repeat as necessary.
I take it you work in finance then.
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Not sure if its fair to call you out on this but what would any additional "punishment" bring anyone ? 21 years is a long long time.

Extending the prison term seems like the right way to go and keep the issues of punishment and safekeeping separate.
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Cloud waffles.

No, no... WaffleCloud(tm). As a mobile service. Syncs with your whipped cream on-demand.
Never noticed that tremendous impact - in fact, one of the reasons rijndael became AES was because it was already very fast on contemporary 32 bit computers.

What impact did you observe?
How would that process work?

Check gets deposited in ABC bank (issued by XYZ bank). ABC bank sends a scan of the check to XYZ bank. And XYZ bank has an employee whose job it is to look at every inbound check to make sure the signature matches? Or maybe they have computers to recognize the signature and compare them for similarities. If it's too different, then it's flagged and sent to an employee for further review?

I suppose it's possible that this happens. I honestly have no idea. Next time you write a check, sign it "Snoopy" and see if it still clears. My guess is that it would.
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