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A important question you have to ask yourself above all others:

Is this something that is portable skills wise, will you learn about the subject and will that skillset be something of interest and marketable down the line?

Reason I ask that is if your not interested in it and/or if it is such a niche feild that the knoweledge you will gain on the subject is not portable. Well, unless its a pasion, just remember one important thing: probation periods work both ways.
It is an interesting question, in 1977 the closest analog would be a 'locked down' color TV versus the Heathkit build your own color TV kit.

The other weird thing about this discussion is that none of the hobbiests in 1977 were concerned with the fact that you couldn't root an IBM S/370. They didn't need too, they just built their own computers. That said, anyone could get complete access to an IBM S/370 (one of my summer jobs at IBM gave me full control over one, right down to what microcode we were going to load that day) so the tools to 'create applications' will no doubt continue to exist.

What will change is that there will be a device that people use to communicate and play games and stuff which you can't just buy, install your own ROM image, have it do that other stuff and the stuff you want too. Not that scary.
I think the issue here is precisely the concept of package management, as well as the currently used implementations on Linux. Package management is curated by people not involved in the original source packages, and the maintainers of the original open source projects do not do releases into the package management repositories.

And due to the proliferation of package management systems, choosing the right packages from a project's web page is quite confusing. In addition, rpm and dpkg have absolutely horrid command line interfaces, and the documentation is about as confusing as bash's man page. These are not trivial or easy to understand tools, necessitating further layers of abstraction like yum and apt. However, even these "simple" interfaces expose a huge amount of unnecessary complexity. If you disagree, look at the number of command line options in the rpm and dpkg utilities, and the strange and unexpected way that these command line options interact. It's not a clean system at its core. Suppose I want to do something extremely simple such as list all the packages installed on my system, how many words of the man page do I have to read and re-read before I can discover this interface? These tools share none of the simplicity of original Unix utilities, and are large monolithic beasts rather than composable units.

Linux package management is truly awesome, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't have faults and that it can't be improved.
I recently tried a full system restore from Time Machine (from the Disk Utility in Recovery) on a zeroed out partition and it kept failing midway giving me a generic error. Ended up installing OS fresh and restoring files selectively inside Time Machine.

I've lost a lot of respect for Time Machine since then.
In theory, you're wrong (and you certainly should be).

In practice, I'd take it a step further: Patents aren't about doing things that are hard. They're about doing things that are new... to the patent office.
I get a lot of questions about how I did page routing and page transitions when I transitioned. I ended up writing just a few lines of JQM-inspired page changing code - since it's a PhoneGap app, I didn't need to worry about changing the URL properly - just changing DIV visibility and some event triggering. When I was using jQM, I had disabled transitions, so I didn't go through any effort in re-implementing those in Bootstrap.

But, yeah, if you're really keen on that stuff, then my choice may not be the one for you.
:%s/he/she :)
O’Reilly Digital Pricing Webcast Focuses on Benefits of Direct Selling
If the product already exists, the advice on where to find/buy it is valuable. It would be a great boon to visitors, as well as drive more traffic to your site through web searches. One of the most valuable things about Amazon is the reviews which often contain additional info/insights about products, even where to find (legitimately) free ebook versions of print titles, etc.
This kind of generalization is toxic. The engineering community as a whole should not accept this mindset of Engineering vs Executives.
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Sirius extends POhWER’s information lifespan with Open Source
So the answer is to deal with trolls not eliminate patents. Having a shorter patent grant is about addressing issues like Amazon 1-click. Amazon is not a patent troll, but having a 20 year patent on 1-click is absurd.

There are a lot of patent trolls outside software. Being against software patents and being against patent trolls are different issues with different solutions. I reject that dispensing with patents altogether is the best choice.
@hnriot - I responded to a similar comment above, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4339604
If it makes you feel any better: I get my hair cut at a place here in Silicon Valley that's full of Chinese tiger moms (incl. the staff). When I was sitting in the chair a few weeks ago, a tiger mom came in the shop with a book of 8x10 photos. She went from Chinese woman to Chinese woman, holding the book open and announcing, "This is my son. Here he is [pointing at the photos, and slowly turning the pages] at his graduation last week. He graduated from Berkeley in electrical engineering." Then, pausing for effect, turning her head and nodding slowly and meaningfully, added, "...with honors."

She would then move down the line to the next woman and repeat the whole thing verbatim, down to the pause, slow meaningful nod, and "...with honors."

Most women she spoke to tried to look unimpressed, which I thought was a bit rude. Some even sniffed and turned away. It was amazing.

I was the lone white guy in a room full of Chinese women (and some kids) and apparently the only one who was happy for her and willing to look at her pictures. No luck. When she got to me, she sniffed at me and skipped past me to the next Chinese woman.

I wasn't sure whether that was because my opinion was irrelevant to her sense of social status or, more simply, that she knew the Chinese women but didn't know me.

I asked my hair stylist who, like most of the staff, has been a friend of mine for years. She told me that she had seen the woman a couple of times but that she didn't think anybody in the shop knew her by name. I (the only one in the room with a EE background and apparently the only one happy for her) was just not somebody whose opinion mattered to her.

So it seems that your Berkeley EECS is plenty good enough to ruffle the feathers of other Chinese moms and to impress me--if that helps any. ;-)
Is there a Sales School for Hackers?
Something akin to much of the 'learn to code' type of classes that have gained popularity in the past year?

It seems that a good hacker would have much more to gain by doing a 'learn to sale' type of class than a bizdev guy taking coding classes.
I think it's already been patched. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/17/546 (navigation on the left of the page)
In this case, the downside to saving money by laying off expensive experience is clear. Unfortunately, the downsides are rarely clear before the upsides, and by the time the mistake is obvious, returning to the previous state is difficult, and an incentive has been created for short term savings at the expense of long term ones.

By way of example, several years ago I sold tools at Sears. Sears had spent decades building consumer confidence, particularly in their Craftsman brand. If you bought a Craftsman tool, and it broke for any reason, they replaced it, sans receipt. As a result, this warranty was transferable - there were no questions asked. While this policy certainly did not extend to every product sold at Sears, it did exemplify a commitment to service and quality: in the words of one older person I talked to once "if you bought it at Sears, you didn't have to worry."

As time went on, Sears was able to increase profit margins by slowly restricting the tool warranty, and using crappier parts. The obvious problem was that once Sears lost its reputation as a "you don't have to worry about it" store, it had to compete with stores like Wal-Mart on price[0].

The interesting problem here is not the Sears strategy, but the fact that it takes years for the effect of reduced quality to become obvious: in the short term, consumer confidence in the brand is still high, so the worse products are bought for the same prices, under the assumption that the quality is still high. By the time consumers on the average figure this out (when your drill wears down in 3 years instead of 10), someone that made the change has been able to demonstrate clear savings to the company and move on.

Several people have suggested solutions. The first one I hear thrown around is "get rid of executives." I think this is shortsighted in the same way that getting rid of a good IT department is. Certainly some executives are useless, but "get rid of the bad executives" is vacuous. A more compelling solution is to create incentive structures that encourage "bad executives" to be good ones, such as incentives which outweigh the short-term gains gotten by reducing, say, IT spending. For instance, I've heard it suggested that companies use long-term equity, say 15 years out. I'm not sure how that squares with moving from company to company, but it's interesting.

[0]This is not to say that the Sears quality-first business model was sustainable, merely that there was certainly a tradeoff, the effects of which take a long time to see in total.
There are companies that do prior art searches (usually, but not always associated with existing legal practices, I believe).

As for the patent office being more productive... At least on the subject of prior art, they don't want to be. After all, they're paid by the patent.
Pixar subdivision surface library
> As for executives, they're disciplined, they can enjoy
their easy jobs and high compensation and accept the
boredom associated with rarely being needed, because if
things are running well, they aren't operationally
necessary

I'm sorry but you have zero clue as to what running a business is like. Zero.

There really isn't much more I can say other than to quote Twain: "He who holds a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way".

Go hold a cat by the tail. Then come back and re-read your post.
Note: I wrote this nearly a year ago, not sure why it's popped up today. Since then, both Bootstrap and jQuery Mobile have improved. I encourage you to consider both options (amongst a host of others, some of which I overviewed in this talk - http://mobile-app-strategy.appspot.com/) and pick what works best for you.
:-)
I understand what you mean, but that's certainly not the conventional definition of 'reporting to someone.'
You're counting during the extra second that was awarded. The problem was the timer was not started during the previous double-touch. The timer should've already elapsed by that time.
> This is ultimately a situation of the market being a robust and stable dynamical system.

Not while it's being shaped by algorithms competing against each other, which you're a part of.
the only crime in the U.S. system for which "recklessness" is relevant is manslaughter/murder.

Hmm, isn't there a specific offense of "reckless endangerment of a child"?
Given that if the scores remained as they were then player A would be declared the winner, then in some very real sense I would say that player A was in the lead.

Semantics and interpretation.

To me it's not really the point. To me, the lessons are about process, problems, how you deal with them, and then treating the people with respect.
You say "I completely disagree" when you want to say "you're wrong" but won't, because it's not Socially Correct to do so.
The article specifically qualifies it as a saddest 'on field' moment.
I also have made great use of this great menu of cocoa controls. Thanks for creating it and keeping it up!
I do occasionally wonder about the name "controls" for this kind of components. But it seems to be how most people refer to them.
^ if you used a poor truecrypt password
Yes, It has had Linux support since late 2009; I've been playing it regularly without issue on my Linux box ever since.
Recall that wealthy conscripts could buy their way out of serving in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.
There were few-to-no software patents until the 80s. In that period there was rapid progress, and many new industries; some say much faster progress than since.

It's true that when some areas offer artificial monopolies and others don't, investors like the former. But extending the domain of monopolies isn't the only way to debias that.
The behavior that the pigouvian tax is designed to discourage.

In this particular case the behavior is driving, which the government proposing the tax believes is socially harmful.
Funding Roundup: 12 Tech Startups Scored Over $196 Million This Week
I don't see any multitouch, but that inertial scrolling is very interesting.
I think if you polled a bunch of devs, you'd come up with a bunch of things you "shouldn't have to do" in order to write efficient code. It varies by framework, and GHC/Haskell is generally unapologetic about what you have to do to write fast Haskell programs. It is a language nerd's language, after all.
Yeah, I noticed this one too, when cropping a picture and saving it as a new file (in Preview). Both the original and the new one were cropped. A moment of panic later, and I found the revert option in Preview, but only because I knew it existed.

Totally. 100%. Undesirable. I did not Save. I saved to a new file. The only option now appears to be duplicating before editing (bad) or hoping the application has an 'export' option which sidesteps this (also bad - export typically presents far more options than save-as).
3.0.3.5 is the latest. 3.0 only came out about a month ago so it's not too surprising that it hasn't made it to the official Ubuntu repos yet. 2.8 just came out 4 months ago so it's not exactly old.
I have yet to find zsh worth the fuss of learning.

I tried Oh-my-zsh for a while. I hated its long start-up times every time you login. The constant "update me!" yipping drove me crazy. A shell is supposed to stay out of your way and be useful, not pop up questions that have nothing to do with your present task.

As to the "nothing to learn". Pfft. Plenty to learn or you aren't really using zsh. The shortcuts mentioned are just aliases. You can get them in Bash just as easily:

alias l="ls -G -la"
alias ..="cd .."
alias ...="cd ../.."
alias ~="cd ~"

Yes, zsh does have some neat things that bash does not (like right-side prompts) but it's not enough, in my book, to grow attached to a shell that you aren't necessarily going to find on all terminals. Bash is everywhere and very powerful.

And as for a plug-in framework with most of the same stuff as oh-my-zsh, there is bash-it: http://thechangelog.com/post/1253059801/bash-it-a-community-...
It's too bad you believe school is evil. Probably your best chance at helping is to attach yourself to one of the schools with an auxiliary program.

I personally do not think you can build a profitable business out of this unless you have a lot of contacts and investors to help your students, similarly to how many YC companies would not succeed without the alumni network acting as a network of customers and referrers.
I've used a system at work that truncates passwords when setting them, but not when checking them. It doesn't fill me with confidence.
It's not that. Good executives are worth far more than the compensation that they get; but as a class, their net impact is neutral at best and probably negative. As with stock traders (where a lot of them just lose money) most of them aren't very competent. That doesn't invalidate every single one of them or what they're trying to do.

It's the CEO-pay debate all over again. No one who actually understands large companies would argue against the notion that it's worth $10 million per year (several times that, actually) for a company to have a good CEO over a bad one. On the other hand, shitty CEOs are paid highly just for belonging to the class of people considered eligible to be CEOs, and increasing executive compensation has paradoxically reduced quality of service: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/pay-more-get-...

Also, I think lightweight management is generally better and I don't see why people find my insinuation that most executives should be working 2 hours per day to be an insult to what they do. If I were at a point in my career where I could legitimately justify the kind of compensation that I make now with a 2-hour workday, that would be awesome. I could go back to school, or volunteer, or take another job. I don't know why people in our culture equate working long hours with being productive. I equate it with being so unproductive that people have to make monstrous sacrifices just to reach par (although the reality is that most people are plenty capable of being productive, and the long hours come from social expectations).
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It looks like others have found a work-around by leveraging the duplicate feature another other keyboard shortcuts but this it quite annoying.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57481986-263/apple-retu...
Bad management is like mud. It get's on everything and is almost impossible to get rid of.
Track Down Resource-Hogging Tabs In Chrome
Everybody is betting on captured SSL traffic to remain secure.
Do we really need another CMS?
Pixar just open sourced their high-performance subdivision evaluator
I chose it based on a couple factors:

* I had posted something to my personal blog back in 2005 when I worked for Microsoft that made reference to them as such ('control' is a pretty standard term in MS vernacular). The blog post ended up being ranked #1 on google for the search term "cocoa controls", so I wanted to take advantage of that google juice as much as possible

* The unhyphenated, dot-com domain was available, which was a pretty big deal to me

* I like the alliteration :)
SQL injection attacks jumped 69% in Q2
More importantly, why doesn't the clock just show milliseconds too?

This is an Olympic combat event... one second is a long time.
well then i would suggest not buying that model. i keep editing this trying to find a non-snarky way of conveying the following: basically, you do still need to think a little bit. if you want to avoid thinking completely then you probably aren't going to enjoy linux.

in general, thinkpads have good support for linux. i've had various x series laptops over the years and they've been very solid (more so than my partner's macs, where i need to keep replacing fans and power cables).

for desktops, just build what you want. as long as you avoid strange or very new hardware it generally just works.
I doubt many YC founders would cut IT because things are working well.

Startup founders are in a different class because there's actually 8+ (sometimes 14+) hours of work to be done in a day in a company that's fighting its way into existence.
If ethical or cultural diversity is a disadvantage, USA should not be so competitive in Olympics.
Your question doesn't make sense. I don't think "media" is the word you mean to use.

"Media" can mean:

1. e.g. photography -v- tv -v- radio -v- web -v- newspapers -v- books -v- etc

2. physical objects on which some sort of content is stored, e.g. hard disks, CDs

Do you mean one of these, or do you mean something different?
If you look at the studies that were done about high PE firms you will see that those firms were not attempting to secure the maximum valuation possible @ IPO. In FB's case they were attempting to secure a $100 billion valuation (the maximum valuation that any stock prognosticator had called for.) I also do not believe high PE studies go further back than the 1990's. There is something there, but more data is needed.
Oh man, that is seriously broken. I save-as in Preview all the time when cropping or color-adjusting photos, and this could've produced a very bad day if I had upgraded to Mountain Lion and kept doing that, unwittingly overwriting all my originals. (I haven't upgraded yet, partly to let things like this be come to light before I dive in.)
Calc must be new; this is great, this means Firefox, WebKit, and IE10 all have it.

IndexedDB is using an outdated spec more than 8 months old.
I don't know, I've had people refer to my Asus Transformer as my "iPad". This criterion doesn't seem very sensitive (although yes, the iPad must have influenced Asus).
Chill, comrade Yuri :) It's a joke. Though... not really.
The space shuttle was a poor design in many respects even by the standards of the 1970s as described in Feynman's Challenger crash report http://www.ralentz.com/old/space/feynman-report.html

Good design does magically appear as time goes by but is a result of a sound design and testing process. Fortunately, I am sure SpaceX is aware of this so they will most likely get a much better track record than the space shuttle.
Is "duplicate, then save" common sense enough?
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No, it's clear from the article that he thought the company was worse off.. but really had no details to back it up.

All we know from the article is that IT was worse off. But we have no idea how the company as a whole is doing.

Maybe you aren't aware, but most companies consist of more than the IT dept.
Fencer here. There are several questions on HN, so I'll explain the rules that led to this.

A normal bout goes for nine minutes or until someone scores 15 touches. In this case, time expired with a score of 5-5.

In the event of a tie, one fencer is randomly selected to have "priority" and the bout resumes in sudden death for one minute. Whoever scores in that minute wins. However, if time expires again, then the fencer with priority is declared the winner by default.

The reason for priority is to force one competitor to be the attacker. Epee fencing in particular favors defense, which is why the score is routinely so low. The priority rule is a way of preventing passivity in overtime.

For this bout, the Korean fencer was given priority. The clock ran down to one second and the two fencers "doubled", meaning they hit simultaneously. In overtime, a double touch is annulled; nobody scores. The clock had one second remaining, so the bout resumed. The fencers doubled again.

But oddly enough the clock still had one second listed! So the fencers had to try it again. They immediately doubled. At this point, it looked like the clock had run to zero, and it really isn't clear what was actually happening with the time keeper. Eventually, the referee reset the clock back to one second!

Finally, the German fencer scored a single touch and was declared the victor. The appeal from the Korean team is that the clock should never have been reset to one second; the numerous double touches beforehand had been more than a second long.

The committee that overseas the referee (the Directoire Technique) refused to overrule. From personal experience, the DT never overrules.

At any rate, the entire fencing community is really upset about this. Many of us were routing for Korea today in the team women's epee event because of this.