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>I have a similar software setup on my laptop, which you can't call a "desktop".

According to the standard terminology used by most writers in the computer industry last 5 years, yes you can (when applied to software).

In contrast, if you say, "After using a desktop linux box for about 15 years, I have moved on," most readers are going to be misled into concluding that you've switched to OS X or Windows. (We only got what you actually meant because we were paying sufficient attention and because you went on to talk of tiling windowing and a keyboard oriented user experience, which are not really an option on OS X and Windows.)

P.S. In all the discussion about tablet computer, you really never noticed any of the thousands of authors using "desktop OS" to refer to the more-traditional kind of OS that runs on both desktop computers and laptop computers?

And you never noticed authors using "desktop" to distinguish a user-facing computer from a server?
It was an attempt at humor (notice the sideways winky-face, an electronic communication method of conveying levity - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon)
Regarding your 4 bullet points :

1) Why do you assume that he is asking you to code for free or equity and not for pay ? Did he say it explicitly in email or you just assumed ?

2) There is not enough info here to say anything.

3) On the flip side, do you have considerable leadership skills as a technical person to complement this non-technical person's considerable technical skill you expect him to have?

4) Do you have considerable communication skills to complement this person's considerable design skill you expect him to have?

[Note, I have been programming since last 20 years.]
indeed. But the thing is, you cannot lead people to go where they do not want to.

We are not in this situation because some evil overlord made us do it, but we ended up here due to our collective needs and wants. And the way out is not by opposing an overlord that may turn out not as evil and definitively not as in control and we had imagined, but through the conscious modification of our needs and wants.
I don't understand why people diet without exercise. The two go hand and hand. Don't have time? Make time. It's really a small commitment with an enormous upside. It's like trying to become a billionaire without investing any of your money. You need to invest your healthy diet into a good exercise program and the rewards will be substantial. Then you can do carb loading (eating carbs on days you exercise and avoiding carbs when you are not exercising) and avoid all those no-carb side effects.
Kind of an interesting benchmark. For comparison (market cap/employees):

apple: 10.32m

facebook: 10.46m

exxon: 5.04m

microsoft: 2.75m

goldman sachs: 1.8m

walmart: $113,218
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I'd be interested in a few, but postage to the UK is likely to cost you more than I'd have to pay buying direct from Amazon (or similar). Shame, really, since the intersection between this list and my own books suggests our tastes are similar (in some regard).

Good luck.
Why's this ancient text from the canon of Graham getting resubmitted? So we can all have a good laugh? So the readers of this site can have a big argument over the definition of "success"? "Sure Java sees a lot of use by clueless corporations, but teh haxors disdain it, therefore it's a failure!" Incidentally, Google can be added to the list of big dummies who use Java.
It's probably worse than that.
It's more like saying "hey, you have a motorcycle, here's a trailer that adds a row of seats so you can use it as a car. And here's another trailer that you can add to turn it into a haulage vehicle."
This is a great post. Because I'm a nerd, I'm compelled to make an orthogonal point:

Life expectancy is not entirely medical and is not a particularly good way to compare countries. Consider that among the top causes of death in the US are "accidents" (predominantly motor vehicles) and suicide, both of which are anomalously high in the US.

Consider also that if you go to the top US cause of death (heart disease, clearly medical) and then compare the world rankings for heart disease deaths, you'll find many of the countries that beat the US in the life expectancy rankings do worse than the US in the heart disease mortality rankings.

You'll tend to see similar effects for other medical issues, particularly cancer, in which the US notoriously outperforms many of the European countries that outrank it on life expectancy.
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Other than the cohort and period life expectancy, what is imp. to most people should be something else:

* How many more years do you expect to live if you are already X years old in 2012?

This is obviously different than just calculating from the cohort life expectancy of 2012-X since you you've already passed the vulnerable infancy stage. Also, say you are 90 today, so your cohort exp, for 1922 births must be something like, say 80. Your expectation of living more is certainly not -10 years!
Tribes 2 was not a commercial flop, it did extremely well for a 2001 game.

The studio (Dynamix) did not "go under", they were closed by Sierra/Vivendi for "restructuring", which was a shock considering the success of Tribes 2. In fact, the next game (Tribes: Vengeance) was green-lighted due to in large part the success of Tribes 2.

GarageGames was partly made up of some ex-Dynamix employees.
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Kind of surprised to find this on here today. I made it about two years ago as a quick hack, and haven't touched it since. I used unicode glyphs because I didn't see any benefit of recreating those in CSS. Was planning on adding the backsides so you could flip them over, but never got around to it.
I get the parked domain too http://cl.ly/image/360p2Q0C0Y09
I think they are doing some really interesting things behind their curtain - I listen to hardware podcasts a lot and the word is that they are snapping up hardware gurus/hackers left and right... Not sure what the end result will be, but my interest is piqued.
How do you know that someone knows what he/she is doing? You can't always just look at the end result. For example, designing a web page today, you can still use tables to layout the structure and have the same look as a non-table layout; but obviously the latter is more desirable on so many levels.
instagram: 62.2m (assuming FB is at $19.41 and 12 employees)
Zero. .001 of 1 year is just under 9 hours of downtime.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=.001+*+1+year
Amazon launches MyHabit, a private fashion sale site
Yeah, Ryan (uberryan) the creator of those cards is kind of pissed about the OP using the same name. As you can tell from the comments below, he's doing some kind of weird passive-aggressive attack on the OP. And I'm eating popcorn & watching how the whole thing unfolds. Knowing HN's stance on ideas/IP/Patents I don't think HN is going to side with Ryan.
How can they claim 99.999% uptime, when they just had several hours of service outage? I'm not sure how long they've been providing DNS hosting, but by the most generous assumption this would be the entire 15 years of their existence. 99.999% allows them about 1.3 hours of outage in 15 years.
It's a little like having an idea for a book or a movie, and going to an author or director wanting to "collaborate" to make the idea a reality. The simple fact is that it's hard to render ideas into any form that is widely digestible. Just like directors and authors, programmers "prechew" ideas. There are some surprising rewards to learning how to do this, in that much like a sculptor or a painter one realizes that the medium is actually rather influential, and how pleasant it is to "go with the grain" for any given project. But still, it's hard to learn how to prechew software ideas into reality, it is often not a pleasant task, which is probably why emails like this one have such an unpleasant character.

Although, wanting to have a pet geek to do your bidding is entirely understandable. Heck, I've been guilty of wanting that myself! And, I guess if I had the dough (or the charisma) I could have one. But an idea is an insulting offer - like offering $20 for your house.
A bigger reason is to track leakers of NDA information. This watermarking was implemented during the WoTLK alpha, which was the last alpha they tried to keep secret.
I'm sure I can make the case that bears are the indirect object of my having responsibility -- or rather are not -- but if you prefer, I withdraw the metaphor. The point is that it goes both ways :)
Yeah, those are fun. Putting another Mac on top of it can also flip that magnetic switch, and I've had my laptop go to sleep because I had something magnetic near it :|
There are no fruits which dont have a nutritional equivalent vegetable, minus the sugar and taste.

For e.g. 3/4 th cup of orange juice and half a cup of red peppers have the same amount of vitamin c
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There is no great reason for a large shop to use Github other than for PR.
None - it's all recorded...er, I mean magic.
First off: congratulations on the weight loss and actually sticking to a diet, that's a really hard step.

Anyway, I recently started working at Fitocracy, a fitness website, and decided to make a similar decision to yours. In fact, one of the main reasons I took my job offer was because during my initial interview the CEO looked at my workout history on the site and said "Whoa, nothing logged since March? We'll change that", since starting just under 3 months ago I've done down 25lb in weight and have gained a shit ton of strength. It's freaking awesome. Here are some things I've learned along the way:

1. I absolutely hate diets that consist of "eat this, not that", diets like this set mental barriers that difference between "good food" and "bad food" and can have lasting negative effects of "oh god why would you eat that that's terrible for you" which, combined with the fact that most do this to carbs makes you feel bad about yourself because you'll spend a lot of time on your cut thinking about the delicious foods you can't have.

2. You'll get much better results if you combine diet and exercise, you'll get faster results, and you won't have to be on such a strict diet because the exercise will make up for it.

I'm currently combining Leangains with a strength based workout program and have lost around 2-3lb a week consistently for the last 2-3 months, and I feel fucking awesome every day. I get to eat whatever I want as long as it fits in my macros, and my macros have specific guides set up to include being able to go out and get drunk semi-regularly.
I think what they're trying to say is that 99% of the time, they have 99.999% uptime.
I feel stupid asking this, and I ask forgiveness if it's a dumb question, but why are there so many people improvising diets?

What is wrong with dietologists[0] ?

I have been overweight and went to a dietologist, got back in shape (lost about 16kg/35 pounds) in a few months and have stayed stable for years. And I did not have headaches and was allowed some "free" meals, alcohol and sweets, with "moderation" caveats.

I can't think of another health-related area where people think that it's better to form your own expertise than to go to a doctor, at least not in the same scale[2].

It seems strange to me, if you have persisting headaches you see a doctor, if you have a bad posture you get foot support, but if you are overweight you start reading books on nutrition and try to hack yourself.

What am I missing?

[1] medics with a specialization on diets, since chrome says this is not an english word. Possibly "nutritionist".

[2] except possibly body building, where arguably there is not a "problematic precondition"
They are only excluding iOS? Macs are still allowed? What's the problem?
I did some very detailed testing. I cannot wake my MacBook Air with the keyboard, regardless of condition.

https://gist.github.com/3699744
Go Daddy claims internal problems, not an attack, took it down
Yup, I'm seeing lots of defending. Nothing but blind fans here.
Check out Bootstrap's Scrollspy[1]. Its one implementation (of probably many) that I've seen of the nav highlighting that you mentioned.

[1] http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#scrollsp...
Like in everything we do, people always want to find the new cool thing and easier thing to do than the routine every one else does. It's the same reason why every new week a new diet featuring a cool name or acronym becomes popular and then dies off.
Slight nitpick - accidents are not a top cause of death in the US, they are merely a top cause of early death.

But this has a disproportionate effect on low life expectancy, because early death has a disproportionate effect on life expectancy stats. 1 person dying at age 20 (instead of 80) has the same effect on life expectancy as 60 people dying at age 79 (instead of 80).
Linux has way too little market share on the desktop anyway. Especially when considering that it does all the things the average consumer wants, ever since hardware compatibility problems have virtually gone away. I think the main reason is actually, that "the computer" with its OS and everything is one product to the average consumer. They buy a PC, it runs Windows. They buy a Mac, it runs OSX. And it usually stays that way. Pre-installed Linux was never really given a proper chance.
Wouldn't you want to see that the idea guy had done his legwork before even thinking about MVP? I sure would. The lines-of-code to hours-talking-to-people ratio in the early weeks would be something crazy like 1:400.
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I think that's probably the most plausible explanation. It makes me wonder what kind of g-forces the laptop is encountering. Most electronics aren't intended for "rugged" environments, and "ruggedized" equipment is a lot more expensive.
Being unethical or not is based on moral values and Apple did breach the moral code of conduct in their recent lawsuits by acting vigorously bullish but they did nothing wrong(at least not legally). But what James Hardie did was borderline illegal so they are two different things.
Poor article written on a poor premise. Even assuming that Donald Trump knows everything about how his company's physically operate (which btw, he doesn't), to say that his success is dependent upon that and not the myriad of other factors is a stretch. Further, again assuming that Trump knows all about how his company(s) operate, why are there countless counter examples? Warren Buffet anyone (who if I remember correctly is the 2nd richest man in the world now, because he gave away enough to make Bill Gates the 1st)? How did we come to call upon him as the standard of success? If I remember correctly, he isn't even in the top 100 richest people in the world.

Also, as someone from a business background who is also a programmer, I find the skill of irrelevance in business, and in some cases a hindrance. I am tired of seeing the same dead horse beaten into the ground.

Some hip programmers/start-up folks think that learning to code is going to be that thing that determines success or failure. Its not. If you are not a programmer by profession, then learning programming is not going to be the determining factor in getting you a job or helping with your start-up.

I wish that we all lived in some imaginary land where you knowing Java or understanding how software works, down to the byte of information is going to give you that next big investor or get you that next big job/promotion. Really, I wish it were the case. Unfortunately, its not. When a non-programmer applies for a non-programmer position at a fortune 500 company, not only does he not have space on his 1 page (or maybe 2 page) resume to list all the languages he knows or software projects he has worked on; even assuming he could, the HR manager on the other end is immediately going to toss that resume in the waste basket. Period.

Please HN, stop up voting the same retarded argument. Its made to the front page probably 100 times in the 3 years I have been here. Please stop. The horse is dead.
This should have been an ASK HN question: But I am wondering how a curriculum like this could possible place a candidate into Apple, eBay, Twilio, or Box?
I thought the interview process for those companies involve low-level, tough algorithm/data structure problems, which requires an intensive college education or participation in TopCoder, CoderChef... -- not just how many shiny toys you can play with (iOS, HTML, JS, CSS, ruby...)

It would be interesting to see statistics on those candidates being placed into those top companies

Please advise
I've got a early 2009 17" MBP just extensively serviced by Apple (new logic board, display, etc.), and I've noticed that when closed and I pick it up and put it down on a table, the apple logo glows for a moment and goes out. I'm convinced that this has something to do with the built in Sudden Motion Sensor that wakes up the computer. It seems to have started with Lion on my particular MBP.

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

I suspect that the author of that blog may be seeing the same thing and it has nothing to do with keyboard problems.
Seems reasonable, you're paying for retraining into what should hopefully be a better career, in as low-risk a way as possible.
Site seems to be down, Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ablog....
So it's true that Java is managed and C/C++ aren't.

But Java is still very much a descendant of C++, semantically as well as syntactically. You don't have to look any further than the type system (primitives are not objects) to see that.
Strange as it may sound - try to eat more fat? It's an extremely efficient source of fuel. Try eating some nuts (almonds, brazils, hazels) to keep energy up. Really helps!
Why Celebrity Endorsers Don’t Equal Success for Startups
I created this before I ever heard about the playing cards of the same name, and actually meant to change the name (check out the last line of the readme - https://github.com/zachwaugh/Helveticards/blob/master/readme...).

Happy to change the name though, this was just a quick, weekend hack about two years ago.
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Sometimes, when I open my MBP retina, I can see the outline of the keys on the screen and have to wipe the screen off. So my guess is that they are actually touching when closed.
So the offering is slated to last only a couple weeks and there's seemingly no way to identify which locations are included. Am I missing something, or is this really just a lot of hot air?
Silly: 99% of the time they have 100% uptime.
Why do you care so much that the student has to pay? And why insist that it's just a cheaper bootcamp? That plus the fact that your account was created an hour ago makes your negativity suspicious. Sorry if I'm wrong.
That's a simplistic view. I did almost exactly what you suggested and failed because although my co-founder was good at building lucrative relationships and even had some technical knowledge, he thought that he always knew best what should be done, wasn't really open for discussion, and generally was full of BS thinking he's likely the next Steve Jobs.

Unfortunately I recognized this way too late. Also, he never really proved he can in fact build something really valuable (but there were some smaller successes so I was hopeful).
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I haven't studied the data, but I would be surprised if motor vehicle deaths were "anomalously" high. My hypothesis would be that it is an entirely expected outcome given the comparative lack of public transportation in this country relative to other industrialized nations such as Japan and those in Europe. More driving miles (or, perhaps, more hours spent driving) per capita should lead to more motor vehicle accidents. And if the streets and highways are more crowded than in other countries, it might scale faster than linearly.

Though if what you meant was that motor vehicle accidents were not a good reflection of the quality of our medical care, I expect that would be a fair assessment.
That is wrong. Cassini's apogee (aposelene) is inside the orbit of Iapetus, which is 3.5m km from Saturn. Cassini does not fly by Iapetus in its tours; the orbit was adjusted to do so once but will not happen again.

The graphic is representing the distance of Saturn at its closest point to Earth (as it does with Mars and Venus), but the distance of Cassini at its farthest point from Earth. The latter is larger by the diameter of Earth's orbit which is your 300m km difference.
Hmmm. I'm from Canada, and therefore have no opinion on this but, has this been in the news at all until now?
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"99.999% starting... now."
Upvote to counter the downvote. I see no reason for downvoting here. People do like to see Apple as the underdog, even though some part of them realizes that headlines like "Apple Now Biggest-Ever U.S. Company" (WSJ) kind of contradict with the underdogginess.

Actually, they're quite a phenomenon. It's rare to witness an actual fanbase with a company. With this one, the fanbase is extraordinarily big and extremly devoted. This goes far beyond the usual fanboy-ism. People actually love their Apple products [1].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/opinion/you-love-your-ipho...
Why Nokia Had to Fake a Marketing Ad
I don't think anyone was waiting for this.

Did you mean to say "This doesn't fit my particular use case."? I can name a dozen people off the top of my head that will be excited about this.

General purpose computers are general purpose enough that your attempts to predict the shapes people have their setups arranged in falls flat on its face.

As it stands, this isn't notable news for anyone unless you're the type to be willing to build and maintain two gaming PCs just so you can play in two different rooms.

Or keep the beefy computer in the living room as thats the only place they play PC games (as I do).

Or have a TV in their bedroom / want to point their monitor towards the bed and lay back to play (think kids living at home/dorms).

Or don't completely shit their pants over the idea of moving a box from one room to another.

Or are OK with using this box for some not-top-of-the-line games on the couch. The exciting indie titles don't have the budget necessary to make graphically demanding titles. And No, that isn't just a console. Releasing onto a console (even to XBLA) has monetary and certification requirements some developers can't meet or are unwilling to compromise their game to meet.
Unless you have intimate knowledge of their network topology, and know the specifics of where those pinged IP's live in that topology, and what routes were used to provide DNS results, you can't say that it wasn't a routing issue.

"Routing" is a rather generic term when it comes to large networks, and everything from border routers, firewalls, load balancers, and switches actually perform routing.

Especially (as I've mentioned in another post) when you add fault tolerance / failover configurations to the mix.

Routing failure doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing thing. There are a number of ways in which I can see ICMP echo packets working but other traffic not, especially when you include complexities of source routing, load balancing, failover, etc.

Even something as "simple" as a poisoned ARP cache in a single box could screw up the entire internal network and cause the problems they've had, and still be considered a "routing issue".

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