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> I've never seen OS X have problems with third party hardware that conformed to standards.

The problem is that hardware often doesn't really conform to standards, even those it claims to.

One of the reasons device support in Linux (and other OSes which target a wide range of platforms) is difficult, is that it's necessary in practice to cope with and have workarounds for buggy and out-of-spec hardware and firmware. Just "coding to the standard" isn't good enough.

Such buggy hardware/firmware is rarely documented as such, and finding these problems and the appropriate way to handle them is painful and difficult work. In some cases the only practical way to figure out what actually works is to reverse-engineer what Windows does (the hardware manufacturers generally make sure that Windows works with their hardware, but rarely make such information public).

Apple's main goal is their own hardware, over which they obviously have a lot of control and information, so they really don't need to worry so much about this.
Ask HN: Good books on building a team?
Greetings fellow hackers,

I am looking for some recommendations on books for building a team from scratch. This is not a tech based team(I work in education), so I am looking for something more universal related to team building. As far as tech goes, I am interested in finding out about good tech solutions to communication, as I have identified this as the main issue why the last team I was on was unproductive. (Useless meetings, lack of info sharing etc...)

I now have the opportunity to build a new team (I was recently promoted) and there will be about 5 people including myself. Any books or sites you can recommend would be more than appreciated.

Cheers,

Lee
While I am not a member of the NRA; I had always perceived the 'self defense' side of gun ownership as twofold:

1) in the event that someone else has a gun and is assaulting you with one; either that, or your in a situation where the assailant is substantially stronger than you and isn't stopping (or is attacking someone you love). For example, a mountain lion or bear.

and more importantly,

2) a detourant.

* "I'm not going to steal from that guy, because he's packing and I like living."
* "It would be unwise for me to attack that car dealership, because one of the
patrons might shoot me."
* "Opening fire in this mall would be a generally bad idea, considering one in
four people in it have a glock on their hip."
It certainly is true that reporters can't write about numbers that they don't have. But I also think that a startup going for broke is more exciting to read about - both when they succeed as well as when they crash. A race car is more exciting to watch than a tractor.

It's surprising that 37 signals isn't labeled a "lifestyle" company, which is practically like leprosy when it comes to funding and media attention.
Statistics are just statistics. Nothing is sad about 6 minutes when the "average" American isn't in school.
You can create a gun from raw materials. (c.f. weapons created inside of prisons) http://www.correctionsone.com/contraband/articles/1961780-15...
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This is a wide open space, and I think a tool like this definitely adds a lot of value to engagement on e-commerce sites. Everytime I've bought an item on eBay, I've had questions for the seller, and getting the answers quickly on chat would definitely have helped me a lot. From what I understand, that is exactly the use-case that Gaglers is targeting.
I was running an agency up until recently which did mobile apps. Always an interesting conversation walking into a new client meeting with my "burner" Nokia 1610 and explaining that I knew what I was talking about but had made a conscious decision to disconnect.
The comment you replied to says nothing about professionals, and there is some truth to the claim that compared with a camera/lens that is any good Photoshop's license won't hurt your wallet.

Also, I've used Gimp a bunch and I've read the Gimp book from Apress and as far as I can tell there really is no such thing in Gimp as the non-destructive editing Nicole060 describes (assuming I understood the description correctly--that you can say first apply levels, then sharpen the image with unsharp mask, then go back and adjust the levels some more without the need to re-apply the unsharp mask--I don't think you can do this in Gimp.) So it's really a shame that the comment you replied to, which is truthful and presents a valid point of view, got downvoted into gray. And I'm saying this as a fan of Gimp who never used Photoshop.
Go into offline mode. Gmail will sync back up when you're online.
Olark and other live chat systems work well when you want to provide all of your own customer support... you're basically in the middle of the transaction. This doesn't scale too well, especially when you have to query both parties to get answers and provide them. You have to become good at knowing the transaction, have good answers and information beforehand, and become good at knowing what questions to ask to reduce loops. Real time support on a marketplace this way is a challenge.

This system allows you to onboard all of the costs above onto the sellers in the marketplace.

My feeling is this would well in a marketplace where your supply side is tech-savvy. Otherwise you'll need a desktop client to keep them signed on.

Even if your sellers are tech savvy, they'll need to keep your browser window open all the time. Sure, you could build an app and push notifications, but it's hard to provide real time chat support on your mobile device. Integrating with Google Chat, Skype, etc... may be the way to go (this works well for me when using snapengage). I'd be really interesting in using this as soon as that ability is offered on the buyer-side.
Yes you are right, but that is how I started on the problem of mail noise. I have come some distance since and have implemented a sort of 100% spam-less model where people can write to me once they are within my solicited network. We use quality of the connections (strange-ti-vity or closeness) to block or allow to & fro of private mails.

Strangers and people outside my network can also approach me somewhat, but they cannot not send me direct mails until I am hooked to them somehow - which is, like 'to be in the solicited network'. It is something like Twitter's DM & Tweet model except here we write mails instead of tweets.
The president was precedented...
"O'er the Ramparts we watched..."
This is by far the coolest fucking thing to happen in politics since Kennedy told everyone that we are putting a man on the moon.
"Miguel de Icaza — once a central figure in the development of the Linux desktop environment GNOME — says the open web is now a greater concern than free software."

I was kind of hoping those two things would each help drive the other forward.
By "pretty much anything else" you mean what, exactly?
Evolutionary psychology isn't valid science: it is not falsifiable. Evolution is a series of accidents that happened to produce the observable outcome. Trying to retroactively assign causality between those outcomes and other simultaneously-evolving outcomes is ridiculous because there is no control condition.
You look awesome. I think I'll be setting this up on Friday. Do you have webhooks for pass/fail on the horizon? Or better yet, straight up git push with ssh key support when all the tests pass?
That sounds big. I still remember the horrors from my two mandatory terms of material science.

"The school of 'ALCHMI' argues this is what gives the alloy property X, while the school 'HOCUS'says, its the sudden drop off at xx deg in the Iron-carbon phase diagram ...."

Maybe it wasn't that bad, but it never felt like a precise science to me, at least compared to the other subjects you take as Mechi, like Math, Dynamics or Controls.

The abstract (Thank you montecarl) only talks about "nanostructured metals" though. I wonder if this scales.
I'm pretty sure that Americans have been able to send to-be-ignored letters to the President since Ben Franklin invented the USPS.
If these numbers were the result of dividing by 7, that would put the working/commuting number at 64 hours a week instead of 46.

40 minutes of non-weekend volunteering/religious activity sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I haven't seen the church part as much on the coast, but back in Texas there were a lot of people I knew who went to at least an hour's worth of in-week religious service.
Wildly lucid and I imagine if I'd reflected on the topic for longer this line of thinking may have occurred to me. I really appreciate you spelling out your thought process for both.
I think a completely converse strategy works too - I'm getting notifications for everything on my iOS devices, Android devices, several PCs etc.

I just ignore them all now; pretty similar to ads on web. And I have them available everywhere if I actually need them.
I have been doing this for a year now, it is great. For maximum productivity only check your email once/twice a day and never on weekends. :)
Picking yourself up in America has never been about hiding your past. Think no one remembers the past of G Gordon Liddy? Ollie North? Jack Abramoff? Robert Downie Jr.?

Bankruptcy laws don't hide your bankruptcy. In fact it becomes public information indefinitely. They just let you reset financially.

This woman has every opportunity in the world to pick herself up and make a new career, or even keep going in the career she's in now. All she has to do is reset herself to reality. If she's been lying about her connections, she needs to stop lying and work her way up through the industry the right way--with work and dedication. Someone will give her a chance but she needs to learn from this shaming.

edit to fix bad phrasing
the data is for "average American with a full-time job". This assumes that they have already completed their education. 6 min/day is about 36.5 hours of education, which seems quite a bit for a professional
I have the same concerns about Sony not having visionaries. The situation with Apple + Jobs was unique. Still, Apple's turnaround shows that stuff like that is possible. Sony has still enough assets they could sell in order to fire up R&D for one last hurrah, win or loose. But as you say, they need a visionary. I'd say it must be an outsider, so no Japanese. Renault-Nissan has done quite well with Carlos Ghosn I'd say, at least to me they look more innovative than most other Japanese brands.

What's so maddening about Sony is that they still hold so many good cards in their hands, they just don't have a game strategy.
Multiple downvotes (?wtf?). Sorry, I flagged this. Your comment is not really in line with HN posting guidelines. I repsonded in a fair manner first time around.
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Keep it as lean as possible, use CSS3 animations everywhere via libraries like jQuery Transit and avoid jQMobile at all costs; it's a clunky, bloated beast.
They violently interrupt what I'm doing at the very moment.
Yes to web-hooks.

Straight up git push with ssh git key support - yes, but might be slightly beta.
I have plenty of room in my new apartment and you a free to stay here, but I live in Berkeley. If you don't mind the hour commute hit me up! Email is in profile.
Facebook allegedly pushes two million images per second.
I'm going to guess because it's on thing to make a promise/statement in a traditional political campaign, another thing entirely to make a statement on reddit, e.g. people won't just forget in 5 minutes what you said.

I think they wanted to take the safe option. It is a shame though the answers were not less scripted, they missed a big opportunity to engage people.
In #1 its really about people not wildlife. Either folks don't think they will be attacked by wildlife or they feel like wildlife won't attack them without 'cause' and since they don't feel compelled to give cause they don't worry about it.

And of course if your society didn't think attacking people was a reasonable course of action then #1 goes away.

And as a deterrent the your three examples all presume a human out to do harm. Back to my ideological, if unrealistic, observational comment.

Does that help get my point?
Does RPM have any advantages?
> Everyone has made mistakes. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

Well, Techcrunch didn't use this principle before writing their little piece yesterday, did they?

You get what you put in.
An hour is not very much, in some churches and some places outside of the US church can go on most of the day.
I agree, with your observations, in California people might work 50 hrs a week and commute 15 hrs (90 minutes each way)
Which is why it would be interesting to compare Texas vs Arkansas vs California vs Montana vs college degree vs no degree vs rich vs poor etc etc.
How would you embed this in a marketplace listing? Pretty sure that'd be a no-no on eBay.
You're absolutely right. Inferring legality==ethical is a fallacy and distraction. I got a bit of a twinge when writing that bit.

I think the reason I left it in is because lots of lots of people do make that correlation, and I was asking a question about other people's opinions, not mine. It's frankly surprising (sadly) when folks don't equate law and ethics so I was surprised at the contrast here.

It wasn't meant to suggest that I find the two tied together, or that I think you should.

As for your question, I have no idea who I would invest in (assuming I was forced to choose one of them, which would be necessary since I'm pretty sure I'd like not to invest in either). I have no idea what interesting things Shirley might be up to. All I have to go on is one techcrunch article for each of them, with obviously diametrically opposed editorial agendas... which is kind of my point.
Fred, first things first - I cant believe you responded to this post - it was a pleasant surprise - Thanks !!

1. AAPL has gone up 7.4x since the day you sold.

2. "we would have invested millions in airbnb" thats the whole point, you could have invested millions in AAPL as well.

3. Your other investments are stunning. You are so right, some of them would blast past the 7.4x AAPL benchmark - hey thats a new term for vc - the AAPL benchmark!
We did have a pretty amazing week right after the summit, where everyone was on fire to ship things and there were a lot of people "in line" to get things deployed. It was pretty awesome, actually, seeing so many things land within a week of the whole team gathering and discussing the future.
Agreed. It is totally asinine.
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I looked for such a light markup language for a long time, but it also should work offline. What made me realize that this would be useful, was the bitbucket wiki. So, quite similar to your experience.

Than I found org-mode. We're happily together for over a month now ...
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I don't buy this. None of the specific instances are coming to mind, but I feel like we get stories that come across about folks pulling cheeky (read: manipulative put through a 'cute-hustle' lense) stunts in the name of getting up, and I think HN generally sees those 'outside the box' efforts favorably.

That said, maybe I'm full of it. The thread about the AOL kid was actually really awesomely balanced and there were plenty of reactions on both sides of the aisle. I might be attributing a tendency to the HN community that doesn't exist. My memory's not good enough to be trusted, frankly.
Are you kidding? All you need is always-on-top behavior, which is usually offered in some form by most window managers.
Not sure what's elitist about getting annoyed at a self-appointed elite of tech journalists for a decline in standards - and also the use of a leading industry publication to attack an individual. Unless you mean elitist in the same way I want an elite pilot flying my plane and an elite surgeon doing my operation. Then, well yeah...

Tirade? Fair enough. Got a bit carried away. Why not? This stuff pisses me off. It's ridiculous that industry coverage has fallen towards the TMZ level over the last few years. I know for some reason I don't understand Arrington isn't popular around here, but when he ran TechCrunch it was must read stuff. Scoops were mostly real, and of some value. He personally wrote well, and held others to the same standard. Even post acquisition TC still puts on great events, and there's a lot to like. That's why it's so frustrating.

Startups? Not really, the specific blog in question isn't a startup - it was sold to a large corporation and its current focus is page views at any cost.

There's still good writing out there. There are tech journalists who I eagerly read everything they write, because it's well written and thought out. There are probably some I don't read because the style is not for me, but I'm sure they're great. However, there is also a parasitic element, feeding off the energy of the startups they purport to cover, having little appreciation of much of what startups do, or even the underlying technology they're writing about.
Burden of proof applies here- you can't tell him that something is true then refuse to provide evidence for it. Should be pretty simple to give a few examples, no?
It was in the 1990s that Sony was completely dominant in a few markets. Their PlayStation crushed a few upstarts, was probably the reason the then ruling console maker Sega rushed and later abandoned their Dreamcast system, and the PS2 was as much the de-facto console for a whole generation, an unprecedented position.

Their Trinitron TV technology was the envy of pretty much everyone, consumer or competitor, and was an essential component in any tech-savvy household. Well, at least until LCDs took over, and Sony seems to be a second rate player since they don't make their own panels.

Their cameras and video recording equipment were still superior to anything on the market, with Betacam being the unquestioned standard for broadcast video. Then digital pretty much squashed that.

Sony's always been a fighter even when it didn't work out. The MiniDisc was a bust. Their MP3 players never amounted to anything because of their stubborn insistence on some awkward, native encoding format until it was too late to matter. Their MemoryStick was too big, too expensive, just plain too Sony to ever catch on.

Now they're desperate for a hit that isn't coming. The PS4 has zero hope of being the dominant platform, not with Microsoft still committed, with Nintendo nipping at their heels, and Apple positioned to throw their hat in the ring as well.

To fix Sony you'd have to tap into what little cachet they still have left. People like their stuff, their style, their charm. If only you could curtail their obnoxious arrogance and inability to focus on making a few amazing things instead of a whole plethora of junk...
Over 24 hours and haven't been arrested yet. Muhahaha. No one ever expects the Corinthians.

The UK tweet thing was a crazy overreaction, yes.

In all honesty though... wouldn't you be kinda surprised if law enforcement wasn't monitoring social media? Not looking for the super secret terrorist cell mind you, who probably would refrain from tweeting before their grand operation. But looking for the bat-shit loon who decides to use whatever hater theory is au courant as pretext for their batshit loontastic ideas. E.g., shoebombers.

What citizens/journalists should be vigorously investigating is not whether the social media monitoring is happening (cause it is), but whether those Personally Identifiable Information rules are reasonable, whether they are being followed, and just how many people are on the terrorist/drug (i.e., the "perpetual wars" (/eyeroll) we are fighting) lists, how reasonable are the names on those lists, etc., etc.
Yes. This can be used without any Adium or other IM accounts. Sellers could choose to use any IM client, if they prefer.
DHH and Jason have both been making big statements on profiability and how it is good to charge your customers etc - in fact when FB was valued at 33 billion DHH wrote something that basically said it was nonsense.

Although one part of me says that the message is good, the other part says - why dont they publish their size? Like you rightly said, the value that many people would attribute to their words would vary based on size.

And the other thing is, many of these concepts that they tout might only work for a particular size. that is another reason we need to know how big they are.
Thomas Biskup, the guy behind roguelike game ADOM has been fundraising on IndieGoGo to help free his time and hire others for updates after not updating the game for 10 years. It's been a really well run campaign, impressive to watch it unfold.

Even half way through it wasn't looking like reaching the target of 48k, but he kept adding updates, new minigoals, then stretch goals complete with artist illustrations. He reached out to the community around the game to figure out where to reach even more of the community, he fielded questions and complaints on reddit, and kept updating his blog throughout (http://www.ancientdomainsofmystery.com/2012/08/adom-crowd-fu...).

Now with 24 hours to go he's managed to keep up the enthusiasm, and even had two people volunteer to donate 5k if the community can match the donations.

From what I've seen, what he's done matches the guidelines in this article, and it really has worked out very well. It could be a textbook example of how to run a campaign. One thing he's done not in the article was adding time-limited "minigoals" to encourage people to donate early and get momentum. For example, adding new software features for every 1k raised over a few days in the middle of the main campaign. Another is allowing people to personalise in-game items if they donate enough.

Now the only thing is to see how well he can match the hype once the excitement has died down. Even if it doesn't work out it's great to see he has finally found a way to monetise this game that so many people have enjoyed playing.
Sure, and the "woe is me" rate is estimated between 0% and "why don't you fire up that bong again" -- much lower than that of the (formerly) wealthy students that gambled on an expensive education.
Well, it's an improvement on the basis of stopping the spread of
false information; Yehuda Katz did not create lobsters. jcs did.

Sure, the edit could have been both more correct and more informative,
but most people have better things than endlessly (re)correct trivial
and inconsequential stuff like titles that might matter for only a
handful of hours.

My question for you is, "When you're on your death bed with fleeting
time left in your life, will you consider the time you spent
on this issue of title editing to be well spent or wasted?

If I don't reply, at least you'll know why.
Unions were formed because people realized their negotiating positions were excessively weak compared to the employer-side who held all the cards. E.g. getting to the 8 hour working day, for example, took American unions many decades of struggle to achieve (and the rest of the world commemorated that struggle by making May 1st the international day for workers demonstrations in direct response to the Haymarket massacre)

Unions (and companies, countries, etc.) can't ride the wave of their past successes forever. Saying that unions were a good thing 100 years ago is not an argument that they still are.
6 minutes a day is impressive for a professional assuming it is not related to work.

Also, for some professionals, working at their job provides education for performing their job better. They should have split working and commuting from each other, or at least provided a split of the data.
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But the article says:

> Here's how the average American with a full-time job spends a typical workday

It mentions "workday" specifically, so it probably doesn't include weekends.
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