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I guess I should have said "a modern linux desktop environment." Are these shell boxes or desktops? In my experience the majority of propgrams that use this spec are gtk/qt programs.

PS Listing a kernel version does not really provide any information about your modern linux distro.
You can call him an idiot if you want, but in the early days of Nesticle many ROMs were patched to actually run on it. I was six or seven at the time and I know this because I had to find ROMs that were pre-patched; IIRC (and I may be conflating things slightly but I'm fairly sure) the [f]ixed tag was created to indicate that this ROM was modified from a standard dump largely because of emulator compatibility.

And you seem to be having a very hard time understanding the difference between accurate emulation (i.e., bsnes) and the good-enough-but-much-faster emulation of stuff like ZSNES. The point of bsnes is to be a software implementation of a Super NES, not to run Super NES games, but that one seems to be handled quite nicely in the sibling thread.
It's not about having items in your inbox, it's about having control over your task list. I get anxious when I randomly remember all the things I have to do, and writing them down and organizing them helps me.

For mail, I categorize things as "action", "waiting on", "follow up". Inbox means "uncategorized". Doing this means I can manage my email load without going insane.
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This article is very misleading, he doesn't print the money himself, that's all kinds of illegal. He buys the sheets (linked in comments) and has a printer (the occupation, not the device) perforate them and gum them into tear off pads. I know several people who have done this in the past (myself included) though none quite as notorious as Woz.

I've made tear-off pads of $1 bills before, if you get a strap of new bills from the bank they come in sequential order and the pads will turn some heads but the bills are completely legit.

Uncut currency sheets don't have sequential serial numbers because of the way the print runs work; for uncut sheets the serial numbers are usually spaced by 20,000 or 32,000.

As a general habit I spend $2 bills a lot personally (they make excellent tips because people are so tickled to see them... They're not overly rare, go to the bank and ask and most times you can get them).

I've been to a couple of trade shows in the past where your "pay" for sitting through a particularly boring sales presentation was an uncut sheet of bills and a large pair or scissors and the tiny thrill of cutting off your own $1 bill.

Trivia for you all: uncut sheets have special serial number ranges, so you can identify that they came from uncut sheets (for modern bills the serial numbers are 96000000 and higher). This prevents people from buying an uncut sheet, cutting the bills in a strange manner, and then selling them at a premium as rare misprinted bills (not that it stops anyone, look on eBay for misprinted currency and see how many of the bills have high serial numbers... Dead giveaway of a fraudster).

I love it when my dual geeky hobbies of technology and currency collecting collide. :-)
I couldn't agree with this more, opening up a general API would be a great step forward for IFTTT.

I recently also wanted to add integration with IFTTT for something I am working on. However, instead of writing a blog post and putting it on HN, I contacted IFTTT. They responded very quickly and were interested in helping me add my own channel if my project became a product. While this may not be as easy as providing open webhooks, I think it's a viable alternative which better fits their model of being focused on the end user, not developers.
This is a great link, thanks. I'm watching it and I have a question about reentry (should apply to all capsules, like Apollo, SpaceX not only MSL): basically, how is this thing stable?

I see the animation and how the capsule twists and turns, and I'm nervous, why doesn't the capsule destabilize and start to tumble? It's not spinning (like a bullet) so how come it stays heat shield down?

Perhaps some kind HN-er with aerodynamic knowledge can write a brief answer for the layman (I'm sure others here might have the same question).

Thanks
Don't, or you'll set the rest of them off and then the doctors will come and sedate everybody again.
Kijiji not only caught on in Canada, it's dominant here. I don't even bother listing things for sale on Craigslist any more; the buyers are simply only checking Kijiji.
Eating things that have never been eaten before, would presumably be the most direct route.
I'm in Australia too and use Soul/TPG(runs on the Optus network). I pay $15 a month for 1gb data and $40 worth of calls. While I'm not a super heavy user, I never go over my cap. This is what has always kept me from buying a contract subsidised phone...my no-phone contract is just too damn good.

Would love an iPhone, but the only 2 options I have are a 24month contract at around $50/month or lay down around $900AUD for the phone.

Instead I picked up an ex AT&T WP7 phone for $US160 :)
GoPro cameras are all over the place now and they've really branded themselves well in that I've seen people call all sorts of GoPro-like cameras as "GoPros" even if they technically aren't. They've reached a Google-like status with their name basically defining the market segment.

One thing I've been noticing lately is a bit of a rift in various sport communities (I've noticed it with surfers and mountain bikers anyway) between those who use GoPros and those who don't. This rift tends to cut pretty cleanly along generational lines with the 30+ folk looking down on the GoPro users. I guess this shouldn't really impact GoPro commercially too much as they are hitting the right demographic for growth.
What he is calling "spec work" would be better described as a "challenge project". I think these provide a lot of insight that you wouldn't have the opportunity to receive via the standard portfolio/github and interview process. If you give a job candidate a small project (3-5 hours tops), you're able to see how they solve problems and most importantly, how they interact with your team.

I've asked "A player" candidates to perform challenges, and I have happily performed them myself to get a job. And as a candidate, there have been a couple of time where I've realized via the challenge process, that I wouldn't want to work with a particular group.

It's a smart use of time by both parties to quickly determine if the candidate is indeed a good fit for the position.

Spec work, as in completing a project to receive consulting work, is an entirely different debate.
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I don't estimate home improvement projects in time. I estimate in "trips to the store."
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This ignores a lot of the details of the real world:

> Because you should have enough public examples of your work avalaible for your potential employer to evaluate. If you don’t, for whatever reason, then take yourself a little more seriously and get some public stuff out there.

Many people don't have this. And why would they: it's hard to evaluate a candidate via bits of random code and half finished projects which took their fancy, that they worked on on their own.

> Employers … you ask for spec work when you are incapable of evaluating a candidate based on interviews and existing work.

That's right. It's fucking impossible to evaluate someone based on an interview (there have been hundreds of posts to HN on this topic in the last few years). Existing work is hit-and-miss.

I personally feel that spec work is the only way to seriously evaluate people, with the caveat that _we pay for it_. If you're serious about interviewing this person, paying their day rate for a day of their time is a reasonable way to ask people to do this.
I can see the system working the author, but not for everyone. Actually, the "Reply within 24h" for clients is terrible advice, in my experience: if you take long enough to reply, they will call you, and this call might last forever. It takes only a few seconds (with GMail/GApps shortcuts) to reply "Ok, investigating the issue."

I read somewhere that you should delete e-mail from people that are e-mailing you for the first time and/or you feel it's not going anywhere. If they really want to contact you/need your help, they will send a second e-mail. And that e-mail is worth a reply.
I feel that companies should pay people to complete these "challenge projects". Once I interviewed with 3 different companies that asked for a challenge project, which were expected to take 2 days in one case, a week in another case. If you're paying, I'll do it happily.
this. Yet its amazing how many people seem to get this calculation wrong, or just flat out not care
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Thanks for qualifying that statement for me. Also, there is the multi-core issue for Python & MRI Ruby (leading to memory bloat).
Having laws which are only enforced against people you don't like is unfair. Laws should be like trademarks, if they're not vigorously enforced, then they should lose force.
There will always be systems that can be explored & hacked as long as there is a community interested in doing so.

Desktops are not going to "go away" , things will simply evolve. We have the technology to create many types of computers now, not just a box with a keyboard & monitor.
> By any measure Lua is complete shit ...

Reasons? Measures?
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Is that really true? They have python "apps" for the ipad, but that's not what i mean. I like tinkering, always have my parents tell stories about how when i was a child I'd take things apart instead of playing with toys. IMO that type of curiosity is what makes a "hacker". Regarding apple products part of the fun is jailbreaking the device and figuring out how it works, trying to break the security etc. this will teach you A LOT. Yes you can tinker with android devices but with something closed like the ipad I get a drive to figure out how it works and break it. Apple might not like it much when their devices are jailbroken/the cydia store but you don't see them suing people like geohot as sony does.
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You may find interesting the fact that most of the IETF basically agree to base HTTP 2.0 on SPDY, with those disagreeing being mostly Microsoft delegates voting for Microsoft's S+M proposal.
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In my free time I crew on a 52ft racing yacht.

For those of you unfamiliar with the sailing sport, it is unique in the fact that it is intensely physical and action packed, but also governed very strictly with rules and procedures. It is not uncommon for a crew to finish a race sweaty and exhausted and a few hours later meet in a ballroom in black tie attire to go through a procedure that is reminiscent of courtroom proceedings to determine if a rule was broken or if a foul play was involved.

A team who we often compete alongside recently outfitted their boat with a multitude of GoPros, one on top of the mast, 2 on the bow looking back on the port and starboard gunnel of the boat, 2 on the back looking forward, and 2 looking out on each side. They not only use these to practice, going over the "play by play" if you will, but also during the aforementioned race committee hearings, to establish innocence or wrongdoing. They swear the cameras, which cost them at most $3,000, have won them many a race.

GoPro has done a very good job finding the niche they needed to appeal to, and marketing and fueling that niche to be the backbone of what appears to be a very successful business. Best of luck to them moving forward.
I've repaired quite a few laptops. I was lucky to have inherited a stack of older Dell Latitudes from work when our kids were younger, so I got rather good at swapping parts to keep the best ones running. Besides swapping keyboards and screens, I've even soldered replacement power connectors on two laptop motherboards and re-worked a Nintendo DS with a broken case and upper screen cable. After most of those jobs I've said, "never again" as they've rarely made financial sense after I figure the parts and time spent. But it is a neat feeling of accomplishment.
Reading a little more carefully, you'll realize that the blogger debunks eCat or eCrap.

Legitimate science on LENR is being done. For example:

slideshare.net/lewisglarsen
>it might take me half a day of valuable weekend time to fix the problem correctly...

I made a shoe cabinet recently - it had to be of a particular width. I spent about $200 on materials and it took me roughly 8 hours. I could say it cost me $1000 (let's say I get paid at $100/hr). I could also say it cost me nothing, as I might well have spent $200 to entertain myself otherwise. I also do most of my own plumbing - I find it fun.

One thing I noticed after doing DIY for many years: My DIY manual skills are way higher than those of my friends/family who do not do DIY. They find it rather hard to do simple tasks properly, like hammering in a nail, or driving in a screw.
I've recently moved to using 1password (prior to that, Lastpass). I was skeptical at first, but have grown to embrace 1password more and more and find myself annoyed when sites will not allow my standard, 1pass generated passwords (50 characters).

That said, two factor for anything of critical importance (in my case, gmail and work email).
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SPDY benefits everyone who uses it, not just Google.

You seem to not notice the elephant in the room, being the mandatory TLS encryption.
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Many of the the Kickstarter projects are projects that could not get funding outside Kickstarter. For example the DoubleFine project had repeatedly tried to get funding from publishers but failed.
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I feel your pain. Two days to a week is "free work", not a challenge project. I too would respectfully decline if I wasn't getting paid.
"Under United States federal law and most state laws there is nothing illegal about one of the parties to a telephone call recording the conversation, or giving permission for calls to be recorded or permitting their telephone line to be tapped. However, several states (e.g., California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington) require that all parties consent when one party wants to record a telephone conversation."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws

Too bad he's in New Hampshire, otherwise him being one of the party aware of recording the conversation would make the recording perfectly legal.
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when people use iPads they end up just using technology to consume things instead of making things. With a computer you can make things.

Absolutely true. A lot of people like to mock the position that the iPad is a 'device for consumption' whenever a new story comes out about someone creating a song or painting on his iPad.

Well, there's a reason why it's worthy of a news story. You don't see articles written whenever someone creates a song on his Mac or PC.

I love my iPad. It's a great consumption device. But its terrible for tinkering and creativity (and this limitation is by design).
Let me know when I can design flyers and brochures from it. Or write a program on it to do something useful that can be shared with others.
Sometimes I catch myself thinking this way and need to remind myself of my own experience.

All one needs is a seed.

My seed was planted on a closed system: an Atari 2600. Specifically, one with a Spectravideo Compumate keyboard. http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/compumat...
When I did as much as I could do on it, an Apple ][ clone was the next step.

When the iPad came out, I lamented the closed platform, forgetting that my Apple ][ was not where I started.

Something similar to my Spectravideo for iPad, is Codea http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/.
Instantly accessible, and instantly running your code. A perfect seed for a kid who might express an interest in programming.

Any kid who discovers a passion for programming has options to move onto any platform their desire takes them. The ubiquity of the iPad and other tablets might even promote the introduction to programming to anyone who is curious enough.

Also, would people would stop calling an iPad a consumption device. It can be used this way. Many people do. But then, many people use their PC for little more than web browsing and to watch Netflix. It's not the platform, it's what interest them. My laptop is gathering dust because of my iPad.

The naturally curious will naturally do more within existing constraints, and then break free of them.
It's unfortunate PageSpeed is still a semi-closed beta; I've been trying to get access for some time now.

You'd think a year would be enough to launch a product (or at least accept everyone that enters the beta, if you want to keep things quiet).
The API probably has a key that can be blocked.

Not that I'm advocating this, but a potential advantage of scraping, is it can be combined with tor or proxies, etc to get around limits.
Maybe. But that mentality suggests it is all hope and hype, and a promise of very little substance, right?
I found my (Waterloo) apartment sublet listing more successful in attracting customers on Craigslist than Kijiji. Maybe different items are more successful on one space than the other.
Does Node have anything like Mechanize? Handling cookie state and such is something that is much more useful than the selector functionality of jQuery...which is great, but not any better than what Nokogiri offers.
Can I upvote a a candidate for worst written article on HN? I'm not sure the author did any review other than using his browser's spellcheck feature.
The resemblance between Claude Shannon and Thomas Vidick (off to the left) is positively uncanny. They're nearly indistinguishable.
We're hiring - no spec work, and if we did have spec work, we'd pay you.

http://www.globalgiving.org/aboutus/jobs/software-engineer-f...
I bet the computer Mr. Russel built was far harder to create anything with than an iPad.
The designer revolt against 'spec work' is a byproduct of 99designs and crowdSPRING doing an excellent job of disrupting the way people hire designers. They want things the way they were: high prices and no competition once you find clients who like your work. However that isn't the best system for anybody other than them, which is why people are embracing a better way to do it.

Adapt or die, designers. The market is now a meritocracy. And that's the way it should be.

Now if only somebody would do this with programmers...
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Was the patron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Monier ?
DIY in the US tends to mean "buy some things so I can DIY", so its really just a replacement for more consumerism. Rarely does the DIY market do something like "Don't throw out that XX. You can repair it for very little money!".
For that matter, do I have to defend Beethoven and Mozart? They wrote most of their music for money. Is it somehow purer to make art designed to appeal to an audience of rich aristocratic patrons and their friends than to make art designed to appeal to rich corporate patrons and their friends? Because I can't really tell the difference. [1]

The text and subject matter of Beethoven's seventh symphony's are not merely "superficial": They're entirely absent. The work has no words. Therefore it doesn't express any ideas but abstract musical ones. I guess I should feel ashamed for liking it?

Of course, a musicologist would insist that Mozart and Beethoven's stylistic and formal innovations were anything but "superficial". But to be fair we must apply the same standard to Gladwell, and note that he is himself a gifted stylist and a master of his own form.

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[1] Actually, this isn't quite true: I tend to prefer corporate art to aristocratic art. A lot of corporate art gets reproduced and spread around; that's what most of it is for. Even non-aristocrats get a chance to enjoy Wilco albums, and we even get to hear their Sprint commercials for "free". Whereas history is replete with great art that was written for aristocrats, but then was kept out of public view, and sometimes even lost entirely, for decades or centuries. A fine example is Bach's Brandenburg Concerti:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_concertos

…"widely regarded as among the finest musical compositions of the Baroque era", composed by Bach, gifted to a margrave in 1721, who apparently never had them performed. The scores sat around in his library. When the margrave died the manuscripts were sold for about $20 (in 2008 dollars). They were eventually rediscovered in Brandenburg's archives in 1849 and published in 1850. Mozart never heard them. Beethoven never heard them.

How I digress. Let's drive this footnote back towards the point: I, for one, would rather have my life's work superficially glossed by Malcolm Gladwell in an artfully-written and wildly popular book than have it sit in a trunk unread until someone throws it away.
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> This little article failed to say the really surprising thing about channel coding, which is that good channel codes exist at all. There's a simple argument that seems to indicate that they should not exist. If I remember correctly, this argument was commonly accepted by engineers at the time Shannon's paper came out.

I did not know that, thanks. (Now I understand better why Hamming, in 'You and Your Research', calls Shannon a 'man of infinite courage'.)
Does anyone still use Blueprint? Seems dated these days.
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I'll also say that tech folks don't like not being able to understand something, and enjoy understanding arcane things others don't (and once understood, no matter how hard it was to learn, it is suddenly "trivial"), further strengthening git's hold. I'm happy to see the author seems to understand git well enough to say, yes, I get it, and I still don't like it. I just wish he had talked about mercurial as the plausible user friendly alternative instead of svn, since svn is not distributed and therefor unsuitable for the use cases where git thrives.
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I briefly worked for a GoPro competitor: VIO.

Our claim to fame was all of the added features that GoPro didn't have: a remote control, view-finder, advanced editing, et al.

Our price was significantly higher.

We got clobbered.

GoPro's simplicity is its secret weapon.

VIO makes a terrific product but missed the mark in terms of UI/UX.
I think the "IFTTT is aimed at non-developers" argument is just dumb. Add a webhook channel, and people who don't know what webhooks are will just ignore it, the same way they ignore all the other channels for things they don't use. Noone is going to be more confused by the webhooks channel than they are already confused by the weemo channel.

Put a [for web developers] tag on it if you must, but a man shouldn't be denied steak just because a baby can't chew it.