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If "kick down, lick up" didn't work, there would be fewer people selecting it as a strategy, and no need for jeremiads like this one. Sad but true.

Edit: Thinking on it, I guess the other message from this article isn't in the headline: "Don't do business with people who treat their employees like crap." It's not just a jeremiad.
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Give Prompt (from Panic) a shot. Much much better than iSSH IMO (if you need just an ssh client, not VNC or other crazy stuff).

http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/04/introducing-prompt-ssh-for...

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/prompt/id421507115?mt=8

And for VNC, "Screens" is the best: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/screens-vnc-control-your-comp...
The Bitcoin network is pseudonymous, not anonymous.

To simplify a bit, your money isn't stored on any device you own -- it's stored on the network, in the cloud. Everyone can see what's going on, although they don't know who has the key who can authorization transfers from cffc7f08c81b63b3fb6b56d3eae8f984.
Reloading the whole page to get a new name seems a tad unnecessary.
My biggest gripe? The fact that they got rid of square menu boxes with icons for long thin rectangular labels. Try mashing "Dismiss" on your alarm at 5am when you need to hit a little thin bar on the screen. "Snooze" you pressed? NO! I meant to hit Dismiss! I understand that some menus now have too many options to fit into a grid of boxes, but it would be nice to have boxes for <5 options and rectangle labels for >5.
There's actually a good article on this: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/06/the-true-cost-of-c...

Basically, the idea is that for every mile you live closer to work, you can afford another $15,900 worth of house.

It's also interesting when you throw in cycling to work; I used to argue with a friend about going to the gym (which I'm not fond of). I told him I could bike to work (20 minutes) and bike home (20 minutes) for a total of a 40 minute workout during my commute and save myself the extra hour (maybe more) it would cost going to the gym everyday.
Yeah, I'd definitely love to try it at some point. Besides the cool stuff it enables you to do (like the data-crunching you mentioned in the article), there's definitely something really appealing about the minimalism of relying almost exclusively on command-line tools in a more meaningful way than just having a terminal window open as one of a dozen apps in a window manager.
You make instant payment through a QR code as well, if you accept bitcoins. Here's some details if you're interested: http://gary-rowe.com/agilestack/2012/01/09/how-to-accept-bit...
Analyzing XKCD: Click and Drag
Mosh (http://mosh.mit.edu/) could probably improve experience a bit for high latency and/or dodgy connection. Unfortunately, there's no iOS client (yet - https://github.com/keithw/mosh/issues/198). iSSH seems to have it on its roadmap though - http://www.zinger-soft.com/iSSH_features.html.
Limiting your expenses also gives you more freedom. You can quit your job, take a lower paying job if it's more inspiring, or just afford to work fewer hours on your day-job.
Here is my own piece of financial advice that I learned from a wise man 20 years ago: You have to double your income in order to improve your standard of living by 10%. Many people get a raise or a new job and they think they are now rich and can spend like crazy. You can't. Double your income and you'll honestly only see a 10% lifestyle change. Don't forget it. Keep saving. Limit spending. And give a percentage of your income back to charity.
>*The Go Language is faster than the Computer Language Benchmarks Game thinks

That's what Go advocates always say, but, for a static language with tight memory structures, it's not that fast at all.

Now, he does compile with gcc go, which is faster, but using the go tool I frequently find for lots of use cases it's about 50-100% faster than Python, or 2-5 times slower than Java.

Not every impressive -- it probably needs a better compiler with more optimizations and a better GC.

When you point that out the the golang mailing list, it's mostly met with la-la-hands-in-the-ears denial, and suggestions to rewrite your program in a smarter way and micro-optimize it. But I don't want to find the optimal algorithm for something -- I want to compare speed, and for that same-ish algorithms in same-ish languages are fine.

(Though, Russ Cox said the current HEAD has a lot of optimizations and is quite faster, so things might be improving there).
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ah, great. in that case it looks really nice!

ps - from what I could see, none of your videos/images/text state that you can do this. I, at least, didn't feel safe taking it for granted that such functionality exists.
> Money can only corrupt an organization whose purpose is not to make money.

Money can corrupt any organization. However, lots of things can corrupt any organization.

Money is actually the least worst motivation for corruption. True believers are far worse.
Well, you can't "convert" Bitcoins to cash. You can trade them to someone who will give you dollars in return. And they generally keep real-world information for the people they transact with.
By sending smaller values to different addresses and continuing that route. It wouldn't clear the trail, but the more you dilute the trail the more annoying it would become to trace it back to that original theft. For example, if they had 1000 bitcoins, broke that up in to 4 pairs of 250, then broke that up in to 8 transactions of 125 and kept decreasing it then there would be so many transactions in the history of those coins. Additionally, there are laundering services out there for bitcoins (eg http://www.bitcoinlaundry.com/, http://app.bitlaundry.com/) which will just cycle all the bitcoins with others - eventually it will be so mixed up with others you can cash out without worrying about being traced easily.
> Well, if a policeman carries a gun and is obliged by law to use it when stopping criminals

Where are police "obliged by law" to use guns or any other weapon?

My car has a spare tire. I'm not "obliged" to use it.
Thanks for the nice intro to j. I've bookmarked it, and have put it on my list of things to explore.

Edit: Downloaded J and took a tour. It does look very compelling and I'm pretty sure I'll be back for more.
>When given a load that does not stress the L1i, modern CPUs perform pretty much completely differently than they do on real loads with more than 32kB of code.

Even if that's the case, one would assume that would hold for ALL languages, so you get a fair comparison at that...
Might be worth reading about smart property. There is more detail here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Smart_Property
Please explain why, otherwise it still looks like spam.
30 seconds Googlin':

http://www.hypershop.com/HyperJuice-External-Battery-for-Mac...

I wonder how heavy it is... I carry a similar item for my iPad and iPhone in my day bag by default, as my iPhone has some battery issues.
I work everywhere with my MacBook Air 13" (from the bus, on benches in parks and malls, in my inlaws-to-be's living room, at restaurants), and with a 3G aircard, it's great.

Though I did the same with my iPad 1, and it was mostly great too, depending on what I needed to do.
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I'd almost argue that if you don't know when payday is, and when money is coming in and out of your account, you don't have your financial shit together.

My impression is that the usual cause of payday unawareness is when people have enough liquid funds that "getting paid" doesn't have any significant effect. There's an argument to be made that such people probably have too much liquidity and should be more aggressive about investing their wealth, but that's certainly a better position to be in than not having enough liquidity.
People have talked about 'marking' Bitcoins before.

There are some issues with the idea. Some of them are subtle:

The first thing to realize is that bitcoins do not exist as independent trackable entities, in the system. So there are no individually identifiable bitcoins that you can 'mark'.

Instead, address balances exist.
So, you might say, lets just mark the address balance as 'hot'.

This has some merit. It violates what appears to be a design assumption of Bitcoin, which is that bitcoins are meant to be fungible; but it has some merit.

If someone tries to pay you with a transfer from that address full of stolen coins, you can just say "Im not accepting that as valid payment. Take your business elsewhere."

But, what happens when somebody - lets say an anonymous mixer - accepts, say, 100 stolen bitcoins, into an address that has 900 bitcoins already in it.

Now, you have an address with 1000 bitcoins. 10% of these bitcoins are dirty - but which 10%? How do you deal with this scenario? What if someone tries pay you 100 coins from that address? Do you say that transfers from that address are only worth 90% of the value they had before? What if that address goes through a mixer again? You can keep track of percentage 'contamination' but its going to start making things complicated.

If you accept dirty bitcoins, that weren't dirty when you got them (lets say you are a mixer and get a transfer before people realise there has been a theft), what happens?
Also, who gets to say which bitcoins are dirty? A centralised authority? That sort of breaks the design goal of fungibility - if you have to ask a central authority whether this is a real bitcoin or not, why not also just have the centralised authority issue them in the first place, and dispense with all the complexity?

I'm not sure whether a marking system would work; there certainly seem to be some reasons its tricky.
I've seen discussions about this on the bitcoin forum; plenty of people there who have thought about this a lot.
"Don't spit on those who can spit in your food" for the pessimistic mind.

I like to focus on the benefit of all the free coffee and excellent conversation I get from my local barristas, though.
It's crazy inconvenient, not particularly pleasant and offers weak health benefits[1]. If someone likes it, great but for most of us getting sweaty right before classes/work (and likely keep sweating while there), not being able to dress properly and not being able to go out afterwards is a deal breaker.

And you can't even ditch the car and all the maintenance costs and efforts that go with it because you will still need it occasionally.

[1] http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-short-intense-health-l...
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Functional equivalents, and often the Law will see through such transparency. Are you going to withould supply from [an ethnic group, or a protected class] for example?
"Major" is the important word there.
I've only had bad experiences with Prompt + 256-color vim/screen, but I've hear it works better with tmux.
Heroku vs. Nodejitsu for node.js
It all started when I wanted to try out node with websockets with ws and found that -- strange but true -- Heroku doesn't support node's ws.
Can't comment from a working perspective, but Istanbul - as with all of Turkey I've been to - is awesome (and I've lived in a bunch of places). All the exotic of North Africa filled with people who are honest, decent, friendly, and won't harass you. If I get myself mobile again, Turkey is top on my list of places to spend 3-6 months. Did I mention the food is great?
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My cofounder and I are thinking of moving our startup to the bay area. I have a 90lb german shepherd and we live on the edge of a vast wilderness that spans northwest MT and north ID. We hike a few miles every day and its been the best possible lifestyle change for me as a programmer. After living in Boston for a decade, I don't want to subject my pup to suburban/city life without easy access to the outdoors. Does anyone have suggestions for where to look for housing?
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The problem isn't really about identifying the "hot" coins - but rather the history of the coins - you can transfer the same coins constantly to your own wallets, adding noise to the transaction history. If there are 500 transactions to white wash the history, then there is little that can be done besides looking through the whole history of the coins - and if there are other bitcoins in the wallet that were obtained legitimately then you might have to search down multiple historical transaction logs for each partial coin.
Workout at a gym is not really comparable to a bike ride.
thank you! I love the site btw
Looks great, sadly i need a powerful machine locally because i develop hardware heavy 3D Games/Apps.

But i might use something like that for everything that isnt coding, i still love my 11" MBA for that though.
The fact is most people work within biking distance of work, yes there are SOME that can't, but most just plain don't want to. In NYC is is faster to bike then any other mode of transport.

If you are in fact a overweight 40 year old who has kids and luggage needs then what about: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/faradaybikes/faraday-por... ?

An electric bike for hills, add on a kids seat on the handle bars and on the rear wheel and then put your groceries in the front basket. Solution. Physically incapable?

This bike is on the expensive side at $9.50/day, but compare that to car, gym membership and public transportation cost and you might be breaking even.

Of course this might not work in all locations, but it is a solution for many.
Your references are about rocket designs, which have limits to how fast they can expel reaction mass before they blow themselves up. Orion isn't really a rocket as it does the violent reaction outside of the spaceship. With Orion, the limit is how fast the pusher plate can be cooled or how much momentum can be handled by the shock absorbers.

Granted, even with fusion bombs there is still a limit to how much energy and momentum you can extract from a certain mass, so the same concerns of diminishing returns apply. But according to Dyson's numbers, a 133 year trip to Alpha Centauri might be possible[1].

Even discounting interstellar travel, a trip time of only a few weeks to Mars with current technology sure sounds interesting to me.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsi...
Normally a curmudgeon, I love everything about this story. The original comic is brilliant, and the various HN takes on it are getting better and better. Thanks everyone!
First time I looked I didn't realize you could zoom out...
Having used PC-Lint almost all the way back to it's origins, I can testify to just how scary it is to run this on your code. Code you wrote as well as code written by teammates. In self defense, you HAVE to spend time tuning the system in terms of warnings and errors---otherwise you drown in a sea of depressing information. I liked John's comment about attempting 'green field' coding. It is a tremendously valuable process given the time. Great article, definite thumbs up.
Why do I need to install quicktime to use this site?
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Well, having too much liquidity is one of the reasons I know when payday is. If you have direct deposit, do you just let your check sit in your checking account (or where ever it is desposited)? I don't have funds automatically moved to various accounts, I do it by hand because sometimes things come up and funds need to be re-appropriated. That is probably why I know when payday is, I have banking to do!
Additionally you can have 7 hours battery in the 13" MB Air against 5 hours from 11".
Felt like the first day I got my ant farm when I was a kid. :)
For starters, anything involving typing, like email.
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I'd recommend this too. It's a financial blog by a married 38yo former software engineer. If you're into hacking your finances and living a less consumer driven lifestyle, I'd check it out.
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That game was pretty cool, back in the day.
Not quite, although your "probably" right.
Any recommendations for tools in web development? I use JS Lint, but what about server side languages?
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> "Reading his source will make you a better person, even if you don’t understand what is going on."

LOL. Sure, go ahead and stare at all these classes and files with single letter (and single number) names. It will make you a better PERSON.
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The big problem, at least in the UK is that cost of food and other essentials has gone up by a lot while wages have remained stagnant. This can make even a frugal budget fall apart because at the end of the day you still need to put some food in your face.

It's easy enough to stop buying consumer stuff that you don't need, but you do need some way to entertain yourself and if you want any social or family life at all eventually you're probably going to end up in some pretentious bar with overpriced drinks.
I love all the various uses for a raspi. Our goal at the office is to build a raspi based kegbot - we will open source it once we are done (if we get around to finishing it!)
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sorry about that - you shouldn't need to. what browser are you using? I obviously haven't tested them all thoroughly enough.
Maybe I'm missing the point, but this looks more clunky; having to carry around a keyboard and an iPad, surely just a laptop is more convenient?
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"If Randall spent, on average, one hour drawing each frame, it would take him 9.375 days of constant, nonstop work to finish this. If he instead spent an average of 10 minutes per frame, it would take ~37.5 hours, or almost an entire 40-hour work week."

This statement is a bit flawed since he doesn't differentiate between almost empty frames and frames with much detail. It obviously took longer to create frames with a lot of details than empty frames or frames with little detail.

Still, it's an interesting post. Randall clearly put a lot of time and effort into creating the "Click and drag" world.
"the fision target"

I meant fusion target. Oops.
I skype through my iPhone while coding on my iPad all the time. The browser is the weakest part of the iPad experience though, it's true.
It's because interacting with the app felt like interacting with a page in a word processor.

e.g. in Microsoft Word, if you select Heading Style, type heading text and then hit enter, the cursor is moved to a new paragraph (with the style automatically changed to body text or similar).

LibreOffice Writer does the same.
I generally don't know exactly when payday is, but I know it's a bit before the last weekend of the month, and I know most bills have to be paid by on or after the last weekend of the month. So last Sunday of the month is banking day.
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Me too (Ubuntu + Chromium), and is really annoying, as more and more sites are starting to use webfonts :( The strange thing is that only happens around links and on Chromiun (Chrome works ok)
I thought it was awesome until I read "publically" on their site, and then clicked away. If they can overlook a spelling mistake on their website, how can they be trusted to archive PUBLICLY available tweet since 2006?
It does? MMM has tons of great articles on personal finance - you might disagree with him, but it's not spam.
If she bikes to work she might not be overweight for much longer.

I agree though , probably the biggest factor here is managing kids and working everything around their timetable.

I know plenty of people who could bike or use public transport to get to work but like the piece of mind of knowing that if they need to go anywhere they can just jump in the car and go without the planning headaches.
I throw it all in a rucksack. The keyboard + iPad are lighter than any laptop I've seen that I'd like to use, but it's purely a matter of taste.

Having a keyboard that's not joined to the screen has been convenient a number of times though - I can hang the iPad in a bush and rest the keyboard on my knees, for example.
I’ve met some pretty wealthy people in my life and it seems that wealth and modesty as well as wealth and a pleasant character go together quite frequently (ok, there are lots of exceptions but the fact is that in my limited sample the nice people definitely win out).

The traits of modesty[a] and a pleasant character are fairly common regardless of financial status. I think that first and foremost, we are people, and the yawning chasms we often see between our identified group and those groups we are not part of, are largely exaggerations of perception more than anything else and are miniscule compared to the differences you can find between two people who are supposed to be part of the same group.

There is an exchange between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway where Fitzgerald is supposed to have said "The rich are different from us."

To which Hemingway apparently replied, "Yes, they have more money."

I'm with Hemingway on this one.

[a] - well, modest for humans anyway. A lot of people think that their group is pretty special on the scale of the universe, which seems to be a normal form of a general species-level arrogance that is pretty funny if you really think about it for a while, but other than that, I think modesty is fairly common.
I think the big difference is battery life and cellular internet.
"The people who generally have their financial shit together don't usually realize when it's pay day."

Seems like a pretty specious argument. If you pay bills, then you know when bills are due and you know when payday is. That's finance in a nutshell - managing your AR and your AP.

"Do you live within biking distance from work? No? Then move closer to work."

I live in one of the better school districts in the area and pay a premium to do so. Why would I move from a better school district to a worse one?

I realize that this is Hacker News, and that many people here are younger than I am (and I'm young myself), but this person is trying to give advice about something he may not be quite old enough to understand yet.
I found one easy way to save is to think of it like spending. Like, sweet, I just bought $500 in stock, cha-ching.
He's just trying to get his readers to question things they may not have thought about otherwise.
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Oh yeah, I saw that youtube video. I really hope Apple would integrate something like that into the OS, but I guess it's not gonna happen :/.
Indeed, fixed the horrible link color.
I also agree, Go is really hyped at the moment.
I'm not sure it's fair to say it offers weak health benefits. The linked article shows how something else (short bursts) offers in some respects substantially more health benefits but nothing to suggest that long bursts (e.g. cycling) aren't still dramatically better than sitting in a car/ on a train.
I'm a web developer interested in diving into graphics programming sometime in the next year, but this made me stop and wonder:

> If you aren’t deeply frightened about all the additional issues raised by concurrency, you aren’t thinking about it hard enough.

Why exactly is that?
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In the same way that a bicycle race is a fair way to compare sprinters as long as you have all of them ride bicycles. It's a fair benchmark, but it's not benchmarking the case that's actually important.
Which ones? PHP has a bunch of them, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/378959/is-there-a-static-...

Here's a some for asp.net, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4419253/seeking-a-code-an...
Try http://codeclimate.com
In occasional idle moments I sometimes contemplate what a MMORG version of Defcon would be like....
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