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That's exactly the method I use as well. There's one app that I use that an old update adds advertising, and breaks most of the functionality. Based on the reviews, further updates do nothing to improve the broken bits, and made the advertising even more intrusive.

I see no need to update a perfectly functional piece of free software and turn into a crippled piece of ad-delivery-software.

If I get careless and hit the "update all" button, or get click-happy in the list of updates, the old version ends up in the trash can. If I still don't catch it and dump the trash, I can still go back because I've got the old ipa sitting in my "Old IOS Apps" directory.
In response to Dzone's inquiries, Kohsuke shares his insights on the direction of Jenkins... What are some of the major changes that have come to Jenkins in the past year? What areas of development tooling has Jenkins expanded into other than being just a build tool and CI tool? What are some insights you can share about using Jenkins in the cloud? What are top 5 plugins that you wish users knew about? And more...
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The color changing aspect of this bulb is a cool idea, but in reality would end up as a just something neat show off. On the other hand, if they can also accurately mimic the warmth and brightness of an incandescent using this approach, I'd buy it.
You can see vs Erlang in http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al... and have a idea, Go is based on Newsqueak (lauched later of Erlang, other perspective to implement CSP).
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I would not be surprised if the patent office itself used this method for filing patent information in various DBs.
http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_d...

For me, this is one of better ways to approach life. YMMV.
A t-shirt subscription service with a lot of text and not a single sample.
First, nice idea. Good to cater to niche market. You could build landing pages for these niche markets. "Secure your Drupal install in 5 minutes."

* The website is a little light on content. Maybe add some example implementations, use cases (in text, not everyone watches movies + good for SEO), FAQ.
* Go through your website with a comb for spelling. F.e. on the main page "Two factor" must be "Two-factor". Also fix "You tap to accpept "
* The mobile phone icon can use some polish. It looks somewhat like clip-art now. (Hope I don't offend anyone's work!)
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Most are available in models that are rated up to 85°C.

You probably wouldn’t want your LED lights to be much hotter than that (with heatsink) for maximum life. I looked up the most powerful white LED that my local electronics distributor sells, and it’s a 24 watt Cree. It’s rated for up to 150°C, so I guess with Wi-Fi you might need to cool it more than you otherwise would. Most of these lightbulbs are controlled by microcontrollers or other ICs that max out at around 125°C anyway.
Unfortunately, quite a lot of the online testing and school support sites won't work with anything else.
I used Postful for years, and moved to PostalMethods when Postful was sold a couple of years ago.

I quite like PostalMethods -- it's even simpler than Postful was (Postful required the to address in the subject line of your email). They help you format your letters so the addressee will show up in the right location for a window envelope... then once you're all set up, you just send PDFs to them via email, and each email is another letter printed and posted.

They have an API as well (I think that's actually their focus), but I've never used it -- I only need snail mail at low volume and manually-created, so email is perfect.

I don't have any need for EasyPost, personally -- because I'm doing principally US mail while I'm living elsewhere in the world.
0% of linux users have any of these games, some percentage greater than zero of windows users will have one or more.
Is it still "swag" (stuff we all get) if you pay for it (and eventually for the shipping)? I bought a couple of tees and stickers from Github because I love everything about them and I thought it would be nice to support them - that was before that $100mm investment. I think people should buy merch from companies they admire and want to support even more. $15 bucks a month for a tshirt with the name of a service you don't use and might even never heard of seems a bit weird.
So Java has had 1.6 decades of optimization. He didn't compare the difference, just what Java has.
> I'd rather build something with Java EE6 if I had the choice now

Don't, its a nightmare.
Lots of people have even a habit of identifying such tricks. Others, like me, have an automated tendency to map them to the list of cognitive biases from Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases - the thing that deserves to be printed and framed.
Agreed. Might be tough to get over the "chicken and egg" problem. This is a startup idea, mine was more like a weekend project. I hope someone solves this thing.
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Hi HN,

For those who are not programmers and are looking for part-time for full-time gigs: who is looking for talented writers to produce content for their jobs or pet projects?
It's not the dead who have regrets, it's the living. I mean, you're dead. What do you care?

My life is meant to be lived. I'm alive for a very short time. I refuse to spend it looking over my shoulder; second guessing everything. If I do something stupid or harmful I made amends (or try too). I redeem myself for my own peace of mind.

Look it boils down to this: what does every faith on the planet teach? I'm not typing about the differences or whose god is stronger or better, I'm talking mythos - they all teach that it's all about how we treat each other. That's what it all boils down too.

I'm mortal. Of course I have regrets. I don't live for the moment (like dogs - or do they... I have doubts about that) I don't believe regrets are "negative". They're a part of life. We've all had missed opportunities. We've all treated someone poorly. It's life.

If I step out of the house right now and get hit by a bus, it's the living; they'll have to sort my life out. But I hope I have the luxury of facing death with time to reflect on my own life and realize, hopefully, that I lived; had a great time; and left my mark.
Exactly. What's next, paying to have a huge display on your car that shows Google Ads?
Not everybody can afford a new iPhone and buying one second hand is a way for people who can't afford a new one to get one. It is entirely possible that those number stay right around where they are at because of 2nd hand users.
> We just rebranded and redesigned the entire Grouper site in about 3 weeks.

Read this ^ , clicked the link and didn't really like the site. It's just... boring, from the palette to the layout, to @font-face of choice looking clumsy on Windows, to the logo, to the illustration and icons style. I don't mean to sound like an ass, but that's not a design that grabs attention and prompts to stay and explore. Perhaps it's an improvement over what they had originally, but that's not very good either.
Well, it was enough for all a hoard of other sites to write articles about so I submitted the original source.
Not a fan of net neutrality I take it?

As much as I hate patent trolling, I'd hate politics and ridiculous laws to restrict the free flow of information more instead of less.
Good to hear! You in the market for a solution like EasyPost? I'm at jarrett@easypost.co and would love to chat!
You sucked me in! I didn't recognize the name, but I remember him as the "DC Guy With Clearance". I browsed his comments over the past year, and it's pretty clear to me that he either enjoys being underpaid and views it as a badge of honor or is so completely mistrusting of other people that he thinks that we are trying to screw him over when we (tens if not hundreds of people) suggest that he can easily get a higher paying job else where.
I was refering to the leadership of the so called democratic party.
A little late to the party, I'd love one too though. Signed up for the beta invite on the site with leleu ~atsign~ industrialinterface ~dot~ com

Thanks!
I think you meant "for a private sector company".

What dsolomon is saying sounds completely incredulous to me: I've yet to hear of a single company that requires employees to purchase their own hardware or software. This is true not just of the top tier SV companies, but of _all_ companies who are aware that building software is their core competency. That's simply the difference between software being a cost center vs. a profit center.
Is the first set of shirts shipping October 15? Do you have a list of some of the startups you already have agreement with to do this?
If you'd simply dump it out into the open, I at least would be happy to pick it up.
This article reminded me of this TED talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_schulz_don_t_regret_regret....). The takeaway was we all make mistakes and we should feel regret when things go wrong, but we should learn from those mistakes instead of hating ourselves for having regrets.
I seriously doubt that even at higher prices it would not be commercially viable to extract Helium from Natural Gas reserves.

The tiny amount of Helium contained in Natural Gas probably isn't worth the investment to separate out, especially since the company would probably have to separate it from Nitrogen or another non-reactive gas (liquify air => expensive).

In which case, they'd just release it into the atmosphere.
yes, i think that would be a better way of phrasing it. it's weird how old scheme is (1975 - 37 years old).
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Better yet - you should be leveraging IMGUR to store and server the files.

The API should apply the filters, but let IMGUR do all the storage and gallery-ing.
For anyone reading this, the referenced explanation finally did make sense after I drew a Minkowski diagram of the two duelists. I guess this means that I finally understood special relativity... Brief summary: FTL would indeed violate causality, unless a special frame of reference is proposed (this violates special relativity) or a specific new property of Universe is established such that it would prevent certain events from occurring (aka Novikov conjecture) -- and we don't have evidence for any of the two being true.
Ego most likely.
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While I admire the effort, however I have some complaints for you. Horrible visual design (especially fonts) and screams skeumorphism done wrong. Why every hipster designer wants to follow Apple?

EDIT: Dowonvoters, bring it on! You can't give critiques anymore?
In an interesting addition it looks like Personal Web Technologies was recently involved in an acquisition that resulted in these patents changing hands.

http://www.personalweb.com/media/20110928_PressRelease_Perso...
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If you're worried about this, you can get the bundle for free, and then increase your contribution later (for as long as the bundle is still going on) once you're sure all of the games work on your computer.
"If it works for them then they're doing "Agile" perfectly." is a very dangerous statement. By that logic than doing anything is doing Agile and we know this is not true. If it were true, you could do waterfall and if that works for you, then it's Agile. Which is just silly.

This is not to say that the stand-up must be exactly as described in Scrum or elsewhere, but the key is that you have the Agile mindset and understand why you're doing the thing you're doing.

For example, the stand-up is a short and focused meeting where teams co-ordinate and get on the same page (which means it's NOT a status meeting).

We stand to keep the meeting short and focused. If you keep the meeting short and focused, then it doesn't matter if you're standing or sitting. Far too often, teams choose not to stand, lose sight of keeping the meeting short and focused, and transition to having long, boring, status meetings that aren't very useful.

If you choose to have tea before your stand-up, then have a short and focused meeting where everyone gets on the same page, then you're fine. If you're having wandering conversations that go nowhere or on wild tangents and never really seem to accomplish much of anything, then you've probably missed the point.

I have a video course dedicated entirely to the daily stand-up, good and bad habits, and how you can use Improv to get everyone focused, energized, and listening before the meeting. You can check it out here: http://ow.ly/dOmJJ
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I swear, every time I read nonsense like this, I want to slap the person who wrote it.

Apple did not patent the rounded rectangle. Rather, the rounded rectangle was a small part of what's called their "trade dress", which they successfully demonstrated Samsung copied. This wouldn't be difficult to understand if you weren't so busy with trolling.

edit: Yes, go ahead and downvote me for pointing out how stupid you are.
You apparently didn't read my sentence correctly. I am against people living in glass houses on the Internet. If online life is slowly transcending the offline life, than it is reasonable to suggest that "facebook" aspect of the online life is unnatural. You shouldn't be forced or coerced - naturally or unnaturally - into wearing your identities unless you absolutely have to (for government or for security reasons).
Like most quotations attributed to Mark Twain, Albert Einstein, etc., this was not actually said by him. See http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/09/29/you-did/ for a bit more information; it seems actually to be from the mother of someone called H Jackson Brown Jr., who published a book of Things His Mom Said.
Setting language based on IP address is... terrifyingly inappropriate.
The button he's calling the "share" button is in fact called the "action" button in iOS. It's supposed to bring up a context-sensitive list of actions that you can perform at a particular point in an app. The article says "same button, completely different uses in the same app" - well, that's how it's meant to be used.

http://bit.ly/OXvSyw
Part I found most interesting:

"PersonalWeb has been working closely with the University of Texas at Tyler and other
community participants to develop products in the search, social network and content
filtering technologies.

BDE CEO Kevin Bermeister said, “We are excited by this next phase in the business and are
looking forward to working with PersonalWeb to pursue development, licensing and
participation in businesses that use our patents for content addressable storage, cloud
computing, search, social networking and other important developing technologies in the
rapidly growing distributed computing category.”
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Hey, that's my desk! And my wife's handwriting :)
Unfortunately the Scala IDE doesn't yet work with Eclipse Juno. Eclipse made a breaking API change. It's a shame they can't provide better backward compatibility; every new Eclipse release seems to break a lot of plugins.
https://github.com/scala-ide/scala-ide/pull/145
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I paid more than this to get a Twilio shirt from StartupSchwag when I was a subscriber.
I also suspect that the high cost of FDA approval is not treated as a negative by many in the medical industry, as it provides a nice high barrier to entry which helps reduce competition. This seems to be especially true of some of the producers of medical devices.
Consumer Macs are price competitive on the day of their release but their price doesn't drop over time the way PCs do. Since Macs are refreshed approximately annually, this can mean a significant differential just before a refresh.

On release day, macs are only price-competitive if (1) quality is more important than price and (2) Apple has a product targeting your needs.

When buying a computer, you don't look at specs you look at needs.

"I need a laptop to run the Internet and Microsoft Word". PC: $400. Mac: $1000 or higher if an 11" screen is acceptable. It doesn't matter that the $400 laptop has a crappy screen -- to many people a crappy 15" screen is better than a great 11".

"super fast dev box": PC: $800, Mac: $2500 (and the PC is considerably faster)

"great gaming rig": PC: $1500, Mac: ????
What if I get a tee from a startup of which I don't necessarily like? The only tees of startups I wear are ones I use/really support. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for a startup I'm not even using.
I'm genuinely curious and want to understand: why do you want this?
Is boot time still an issue?
As I mentioned in another comment, they likely forgot the purpose of the daily stand-up, which is to have everyone be on the same page everyday. If they're doing that without a daily stand-up, then fine, but it's usually quite difficult to do in teams larger than 2-3 people, which may explain why they lost the value when they stopped doing it.

It's not hard to do the daily stand-up and there can be many ways to make it more of a team building experience. I use Improv with the teams I work with (see: http://ow.ly/dOmJJ)
Fair warning. I only tried to run Braid on Ubuntu a while ago, and it didn't work because of some complicated driver issue (perhaps solvable for an expert, but not for me). However, I think it might work by now - at least those games are rather timeless, so you can still try again at a later time :-/
I created a profile out of curiosity although the plain boostrap site didn't give me any confidence but I found it a bit irritating that the phone number was mandatory. I just hope it doesn't fall in the hands of just any recruiter.
Sadly the 'we don't sell swag' policy didn't last. I left right about the time that changed (unrelated).

Edit: looks like StartupSchwag was before I was there and I was not aware of Twilio's participation.
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I think I understand what you're saying. For example, I didn't know I had a bad back until I tried to lift a heavy monitor once and it hurt a lot. Rationally, I know that I could not have known before, and it's good that I've learned. But instinctively I still get a shudder whenever I contemplate lifting something heavy, and I think that's been preventing me from hurting my back again more than any rational thought.
Send a resume, or GitHub, maybe?
“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

- The Meaning of Life

Discovered this gem at Brain Pickings: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/17/the-meanin...
Thanks a lot. I am considering getting a job first although that's almost a joke now in Greece. Well, actually you can get a job, but you can't get money from it.
We're actually accepting a broader base of applicants than our site suggests, we're vetting every application manually, so if you've got some impressive stuff to show to us (and potential employers), go ahead and register.

Employers & education history are only rudimentary filters for the time being, and only part of our vetting process.
Sure, but this benchmark was more about concurrency, whereas those benchmarks are more generic. Erlang is not the fastest language out there, but it's supposed to be good at this concurrency stuff...
Many of these embeddeded wifi devices start in a mode where they act as a wifi hotspot/access point, with a pre-defined password. One connects to the hotspot with a smartphone and opens a web browser, which provides a simple web UI that offers a way to select a wifi network to use as well as the password. The device then reboots into the new wifi network. A bit cumbersome, but certainly doable. (Not necessarily something people would like to do for every lightbulb in their home though.)
I can confirm that John has given out thousands of Twilio shirts, because they now make up half my wardrobe.

But seriously, Twilio does a great job with swag, and everyone should steal how they bundle and label their shirts - http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4056/4598843343_07d33b5182_z.j...
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Honestly, at this point the lag is kind of the draw with Slashdot. Once a story has shown up elsewhere, you can go there 6 hours later or the next day and everyone has had time to mull over the story.

Scroll down to the middle of the page past the typical trash comments and you can find some useful info, often from old hands who have had a some first hand knowledge of the subject.

Of course that is also the downside. Every troll, malcontent, joker and astroturfer has had a good 6 hours to harden their position.
I can't say anything about Next Level, but as a relatively short gentlemen who prefers Adult Small tees, my size in American Apparel seems built for extremely tall, extremely skinny people. And the one time I was accidentally sent an Adult Medium it fit me a bit like a sundress.
The audio of the talk is awful. Are there any better sources for the original talk?
Sounds like a great idea to me. Political activism that may actually work!

But is it legal? I know it is not legal to refuse serving based on e.g. skin color, race or gender. And it's legal for a US company to refuse business with Canadians.

But is it legal for e.g. a California company to refuse to treat East Texas, or the whole of Texas, equal to North Carolina?
Thanks.

The phone number will not be disclosed to anybody without your permission. At the end of the auction, you get the select what offers you're interested in and which ones you're not. When you say "yes", we shoot out an intro email.
i recently read katz's "geeks" [http://www.amazon.com/Geeks-Lost-Boys-Internet-Idaho/dp/0375...], partly out of a sense of slashdot nostalgia, and found it surprisingly engaging.
It doesn't stop anyone from creating a profile though.
It's still weird, it looks more like an attempt to snatch talent from some of the highest paying employers.
MS is doing the same, by allowing the use of different account names, linked to the same user. So you can have a username from outlook.com, a username from hotmail.com, a user from msn.com, all linked to your 'main account' (whatever it is) and use them as one.

Having pseudonyms is not new. It's basically the same as having aliases for email accounts. This renders the "invention", something obvious with previous art. I can't see how this patent application can prevail.
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I sorta want to build a porn site with content generated by a proxy to this API while offering the API at a slightly lower price (maybe the same? not sure). The idea being, people agreeing to use my API also agree to give me license to the image, which I then use to power a porn site.

Probably too much work to bring to market.
I hope not. My life is filled with regrets. I have done many things wrong that I wish I could undo, and missed many opportunities that I wish I could take advantage of.

And it is often only in hindsight that I can tell the difference. Often, because I reflected on it, I learned something from my mistakes, but regret came with that learning. I suspect that for most people the only way to avoid regret is to avoid reflecting on life.
"It gives you an electric shock every time you complete a line of code"

Is that on kickstarter? Put me down for 10!
Temporarily, pending a bug fix.
Ask HN: What's the current status of face recognition APIs?
Just doing some preliminary research for a potential project. Are there any CV experts who can weigh in on the current state of libraries or APIs for recognizing faces?