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I googled to learn what "ludum dare" means (I know some Latin and could guess that was an expression) however people kept translating as simply "to give a game" which obviously makes no sense.

So I looked it up and according to Lewis & Short it means "to humor or indulge someone". So there you go.
I have always found getting out of bed early to an alarm painful, and would often snooze my alarm long enough to skip morning classes in college.

Now I work with no fixed schedule, and I don't set an alarm at all. I find that I naturally wake up early and feel well rested. My theory is that waking up for an alarm would often wake me up in the middle of a sleep cycle, whereas waking up naturally I get up after a cycle ends.
This is fantastic news! For too long have larger companies used the looming threat of legal action to discourage legitimate competition from smaller companies. I'd never heard of Chilling Effects before this, but now I'm tempted to put all of the C&D's we've collected (and will continue to collect) into it.
Help me relocate from London to Vancouver (Android developer)
I'm an experienced Android developer looking to move from London to Vancouver, but finding it really difficult to find jobs and a visa. I was wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of any mobile recruiters who may be able to help or companies who are looking.

Really appreciate your help.
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I can sleep really long, if I don't limit it. I can't sleep every day at 17:00 o'clock :)
i set my alarm to snooze for 30 to 45 minutes, well really two 5 minute alarms 30 to 45 minutes apart. Without a first alarm I will sleep through the actual alarm every time.
I used to be firmly in the snooze lover camp, but I recently started trying to get back in shape so needed to be up early. However, instead of getting up later but with less snooze I'd get up at the same early time and force my mind awake before exercising. Seems to work very well for me, but possibly not for everyone.
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Personal experience is always subjective. I've found that trying to wake from a deep sleep directly will make me groggy all day. Conversely giving myself another 15min of light sleep will clear my head.
Open webOS being ported to Galaxy Nexus
LiveLoop, as it stands today, is really reliable in terms of data integrity -- we've been in alpha testing for months and have not lost a keystroke of data. However, because of the challenges of building this product through the COM API, we've had to make several design decisions which somewhat curtail the user experience, namely 1) some actions require explicit syncing, but the list of these actions shrinks every day, and 2) we need to momentarily steal focus at times.

PowerPoint is definitely the most important application from a collaboration perspective -- although Excel spreadsheets are important, they tend to be owned by a fewer number of people, often just an individual. PowerPoints often reflect consensus decisions, which require much more collaboration across multiple organizational layers. We'll be doing Word and Excel of course, but right now our focus is on PowerPoint.

I'm not sure what you mean by Big 4 (consulting?) but we are currently in a pilot at a Fortune 100 company.
Eh, yes. Please tell me that, guessing from the course's name, this isn't a 2nd year course in some degree?
You've got to be kidding me, way too overpriced? $250? He's selling it to B2B SaaS businesses for whom that's most likely around the cost of a single sale. I can't fathom any situation where a B2B business would classify $250 as "way too overpriced" for almost anything, let alone a product that could give them a double-digit multiplier increase on conversions.
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I really like the Skydrive interface and user experience but that content inspection they do is pretty much a show stopper. I wouldn't have anything that would get me flagged, but it's the principle of it and the "slippery slope" aspect.

Sometimes MS can take a step forward in innovation but still not stop itself from taking two more back, it's almost like a sick compulsion for their decision makers.
How does one evaluate "Hustle" before working with them?
I feel for you. Our account was shutdown with no warning in July. We got the same brick wall of canned responses, and no answers to our questions.

We were finally able to get to the bottom of it with some help from someone within Google - in our case, they had decided to shutdown the product we were using (adsense for ajax), and had just forgotten to mention it, instead opting for closing our account, leaving us wondering what the hell we'd done wrong.

If you have contacts in youtube, adwords, etc, they should be able to find out what has gone wrong in your case if they dig enough...
I've also starting having some awful performance hitches involving Flash, which might be related. Sometimes if I watch a Youtube video, the whole browser window (not just the current tab) locks up for a few seconds. Just started happening a few days ago, on Chrome for Mac.
This is one of the reasons I consider my Safari subscription indispensable.

It provides immediate access to generally well-written and structured documentation and instruction covering a wide range of topics. The one downside would be the obvious lack of bleeding edge topics as those books have yet to be written.
Small child wakes me up between 7:15 - 7:30 very reliably!
No, the existing license Apple had for Google's map data specifically forbade turn by turn. According to the Verge, Google wanted a few more things before giving Apple turn by turn:

"For its part, Apple apparently felt that the older Google Maps-powered Maps in iOS were falling behind Android — particularly since they didn't have access to turn-by-turn navigation, which Google has shipped on Android phones for several years. The Wall Street Journal reported in June that Google also wanted more prominent branding and the ability to add features like Latitude, and executives at the search giant were unhappy with Apple's renewal terms. But the existing deal between the two companies was still valid and didn't have any additional requirements, according to our sources — Apple decided to simply end it and ship the new maps with turn-by-turn."

http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/25/3407614/apple-over-a-year-...
I haven't found one. I tried switching color profiles on my display, removing extensions, upgrading to Chrome Canary -- colors are still off.
I used time.After recently to timeout a net.Dial call if it doesn't connect within 0.1s (it's an intranet app, connection time should be < 0.01s). While that solves my problem of not waiting too long for net.Dial, I wish there was a way to cancel a running go func() call somehow.

I want to read data from a remote port every second, with a 0.1s timeout. Any longer and I can treat it as a failure. If I put ReadRemotePort() in a forever loop with Sleep(1 second), even though the timeout will cause a failure as expected in 0.1s, there will be go func() threads still active until net.Dial has timed out. So at any given time, I could have 180 go func() calls just waiting for net.Dial to timeout at 3 minutes. I still haven't found a way to avoid this.
I have a day job like the OP and I love making apps by night. I usually end up working late into the night until 3am almost everyday and then wakeup by 7:45 early in the morning.
Somedays I get more sleep if I dont feel like working. (I dont push myself, I only work when I really want to)

I would love to do what the OP does and go for an early morning jog/run/swim.

If you are in the same boat, what advice do you have for someone like me?
In the UK the address database and driving directions seem fine. The search and the POI database are awful (although better than last week). The satellite data is great in major city centres with the 3D view working well. Have similar resolution to Google for much of the country but many areas have very low resolution.

The satellite resolution isn't much of a problem because I can use the Google Earth app for that. In most cases where I don't have an address Google search can provide that and then the maps work fine. Overall it is quite usable but as the data improves it should become pretty good.

Walking directions locally aren't great but neither are Google's. Neither know about a bridge across a motorway.

Last week when searching for hospital it didn't have any POI for my closest hospital and the thing it did come up with was a local business called 'PC Hospital'. Now with the same search in the same location the appropriate hospital is shown.
This is honestly a great idea. I just don't know how much of the audience would pay when github, for example, is free. The Developer 'ethos' seems to be more focused on doing it yourself. Still, Cool
This is an employee that's supposed to be preventing crime. Showing that some of them are involved in crime is a reasonable thing to do.

Unattended items have some[1] risk of being bombs. I want airport employees to treat unattended items as if a customer has lost something (probably the case) or as if they're bombs (so at least those continued loops telling me not to leave anything unattended don't go to waste).

[1] Has any unattended item even been a bomb?
I work at Google. The hiring bar is definitely high, but the quotas are also definitely just guidelines. (I was hired during a hiring freeze, for example.)

I've previously worked at 2 startups, founded 1, and also interned at a large and a mid-size company. None of them had quotas. The two startups were very constrained in the number of acceptable candidates, but the internships had a fairly large pool of candidates to choose from, and would make a position for a suitably-qualified candidate if one did not exist.
I wasn't speaking to whether he is an HN reader but rather to whether a particular comment is an uncivil reply to another Hn reader.

As in the difference between "This post shows that raganwald is an ass" and "Raganwald, you are an ass."
I think some people like Delicious but I actually use notebooks for this sort of thing.
I think "most profitable" and "deteriorating" are perfectly capable of being orthogonal. If nothing else, the profit or its first derivative w.r.t. time could be declining while still being the highest in the world. No opinion on Apple.
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Please do. The world would better if it was a standard practice for everyone.
A product that gets better as people use it is basically a beta.

A product that doesn't get better as people use it is dead.
Continuous integration as a service. Sweet.
Interestingly, their email lacked an unsubscribe link.
I used to have terrible sleep problems. Insomnia, restless sleep, etc. I changed two things. No caffeine. No alarm clock.

I sleep amazingly well. I'm rested every morning and I wake up at the same time everyday.
Larry Page does have a bachelor's degree. He dropped out of a Ph. D program, not college.
No offense but you don't seem to know what you are talking about, you are making the assumption that Google is some nice guy trying to do things right. Many of us went through this here, so it is common knowledge that Google has no support, and they even purposely take advantage of it just because they can, exactly like other comments here say.
Well, except for that pesky FTP thing.
Echoes my experience as well. I searched for a nearby street and ended up getting the same street further away. It directed me away from Manhattan and into another borough.
I believe they patented the specific way that they remove causality and interaction with electronic circuits, not the idea itself. I'm reasonably certain one could come up with a few different/non-infringing designs that accomplish the same goal.
A lot of commenters here are mentioning Nguyen is pulling in a "CEO Salary". Does anyone actually know this? As a founder CEO with a lot of personal cash in the bank, I would assume he is taking little to no salary. Not that this makes up for his absence in a time of need, but just sayin'. . .
" * Windows Phone

* iPhone and iPad

* Other Phones"

Heh.
It's admittedly ambitious, but the focus of Luunr is to work in the opposite direction of current social media/networks.

Start with interests, then talk, and people that mutually respect one another can start to work on something (and perhaps become friends).

The internet is huge with hundreds of millions of people online at any given time. Your set of potential collaborators and discussions shouldn't be limited to the few people you're already friends with. :)
Do you happen to know what these means are? For a national security letter my understanding is that the company can't tell anyone and for other lesser gag orders it might be impossible to even contact the EFF for assistance.
> The only pain point I still have (and nobody has solved this) is that both my wife and I have Live accounts, and we'd like to have a shared quota, with some private folders. For now we just log into the same account until a better solution is available.

Can you clarify what your need is? If you share a folder (with edit permissions) with your wife's Microsoft account, she can simply edit the contents of the folder directly. I understand that doesn't give you a shared quota, but I'm not clear why that's necessary. Presumably you're not worried about your wife abusing your space, since you're currently just sharing the account, and also since you married her. If you just need more space, the expanded storage plans for SkyDrive are extremely cheap.

You could also create a group and use that to share with her. The group would get its own separate quota. I frankly haven't used groups much because I don't have a need for them, but I think they would be pretty much what you're asking for. It won't sync locally, though, if that's something you need.
It's really cool how you're able to complete homework while you're watching video. Can you get into more detail about how you're able to do this?

My roadblocks to doing this would be that I wouldn't be able to pay attention to what's going on while thinking about a homework problem, that some things need to turn over in my head before I understand it at the level needed to apply it, and that solutions often take a long time to type up, especially proofs and programming assignments.
Yep. Many of the place names in his "official" list do not have Wikipedia entries, which cast doubt in my mind on whether the places actually exist. I googled some and it seemed like Google doesn't think they exist either.

Also, it looks like he counted a server error as a bad map result. Maybe the server was throttling him or the server is otherwise overloaded?

A better attempt would be to use Wikipedia as a reference for places which (a) exist and (b) are non-trivial. Also he should cross reference against Google since that is the current standard in mapping.
Do these sleeping goroutines add any measurable cost in terms of RAM or CPU?
The sleep you get while you're "snoozing" is sleep that you're awake enough to enjoy. At least for me, anyway.
Put it on the other side of the room so you have to physically get out of bed to do anything to it.
So.. there's no way to try it without dropping $60?

It looks nice, but I don't even buy operating systems without trying them first, let alone subscription services.
This is why I use a radio alarm clock. I don't turn it off, because it isn't annoying, but it is harder to go back to sleep when there are human voices my brain starts paying attention to.
I hate you!

Just spent an hour with your game :)

(In case it's not clear, I think it's great and somewhat addictive, a few rough edges but really great)
I was very dismissive of this at first, but kept skim/reading. I wanted to know what he (oh its a she!) did. I still don't know. Some sort of business coach I guess. I wanted to know who this god-like mogul is - I still don't know and I think I am past caring.

But that became the point of the post - she did not handle the meeting well - she did not have a clear proposition, she did not articulate it in terms of what the customer pain was and she found herself out of her depth.

But she kept swimming, and I started to fall for her by the end. And something interesting happened, I started to realise that his post, hardly HN standard material, is really what we should be looking at. Patio11 just emailed me about some pester-by-email course, and I am dismissive of that too. But I suspect that just like a young therapist coach with some chutzpah putting herself in unfamiliar situations, there will be something to learn from patio11 course - something about being willing to sell, willing to ask for the money, that geeks have beaten out of them young.

And it's something I need to relearn. And this article and patio11 teach me more than any discussion on go v rust on turning a competant developer into a profitable competant developer
From the about page:

Email is in need of a fresh start. No one wakes up in the morning and thinks, “I can’t wait to check my email!”

Am I the only person who has no problem managing their email? I'm a software developer and have 4 email accounts that I check regularly all from the same Thunderbird email client. I have filters and folders for mailinglists. I have different accounts for different personas (personal, work, work and open source/fun). I get hundreds of mails per day, tens a day that I actually need to react to.

I really don't have the problem of dreading to check my email. I know I'm not a manager of a startup or a big company, but then most people aren't.
We have a fairly sophisticated HTML5 based Cardiology viewer that completely fell apart when Chrome 22 shipped. It dynamically creates video objects and layers canvases on top for measurements. Worked perfect through version 21. In 22, playback is jittery, the browser stops responding, then eventually freezes where you can't even close the browser window. Other tabs are affected as well even though the process is supposed to be isolated (i.e. new tabs go completely black when trying to play video).

The issue isn't fixed in Canary. We are doing our best to isolate it and provide a bug report that demonstrates the issue outside of the production environment.
The spec says Chrome is right (was recently changed). Chrome is not the only browser. iOS browsers, the Android browser and Chrome for Android have always used the new behavior. The reason for the change is faster scroll performance, particularly on mobile.
All that does is teach you how to get out of bed, cross the room, and turn off your alarm clock without waking up.
IPhone 5 estimated to cost 41 cents per year to charge
What have they removed? Things might be structured slightly differently, but I only see additional features and improvements.
This is awesome! I love seeing comments like this. You obviously know the space which is great!

I think you'll find that we're approaching telephony from a different perspective. We're a bootstrapped company of developers building a product for developers. Our users and our product are what matter most to us (along with maintaining a sustainable business of course). We love this stuff! We have no interest in catering to VCs.

How about this, I'll give you $50 in free credits (on top of the initial $25) and you can hack away with TelAPI and tell us what we're doing wrong and what we're doing right. We'd love to hear your thoughts.

What do you think?
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That doesn't work for people with regular jobs and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-24-hour_sleep-wake_disorder or non-chronic similar symptoms.
How come we still haven't seen a YC company competing with Adsense/Adwords?
Now if only the number of hours I sleep when uninterrupted didn't vary by +/- 2 hours.
Everyone is a beginner at some point.

True enough. On the other hand, some people stay beginners much longer than others.
This annoyed me when dealing with net/http the other day. Really seems like the Go team hasn't spent much time thinking about problems on the client side of connections yet.
Your "Get Started" call to action should be an anchor/input/button with corresponding active/hover states.
The server code 8 error appears to come up only for less significant placenames (I don't recognize vast majority of code 8 results), lending some credence to a theory that this error is returned for unrecognized queries.

Edit: It has occurred to me the 'region' results might be trying to circumscribe the whole area of the municipality in a circle, which would certainly give odd results for a lot of Ontario municipalities.
It should be up now. Long story short: had a SPoF, it held up to the HNing pretty admirably but enough people actually started downloading enough movies at once to kill the SPoF and that caused sporadic degradation of the site.

I'll write up the story and the mitigation later.
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I really can't understand why there is no trial period, maybe even for 14 days.
I'll echo Simon - just submit a short proposal (I've posted 3 :-). New speakers are encouraged as they help the community to grow. Consider adding a Poster Proposal as a backup so you could still talk about your subject even if you don't get a speaking slot. The Poster sessions last year were huge and very good.
You're right; departments might do it for the prestige. And of course it might make their teaching easier to have a textbook customized to exactly how they teach the course (after the initial work of writing it).
Counterpoint: Steve Jobs created products that actually created demand. Hardly anyone was buying new cell phones every year before than. The same thing happened with personal computers, companies backed by rich people created the demand.
Coming from the same perspective, I agree completely.

Software pushers all seem to give the same puzzled look when I ask to see their full docs before evaluating their product.

It's exactly as you describe, if the documentation isn't sufficient for me to learn everything I could possibly need and likely want to know about how things work - I can't confidently design, build, scale or support it.

Documentation in the "Enterprise" world seems almost intentionally bad, as if to force customers into professional services and support contracts for products which lack the proper design to be sold as full on SaaS.
Sounds like Outlook to me? Ie, being careful of which emails to mark as read ("complete"), setting up reminders for later on individual emails, taking a message and adding it to a to-do list, etc...

Or what would this offer that Outlook does not (other than not being a MS product). I'm being serious, not a smart ass. I would love to be able to leave Outlook...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_(audit_firms)

Trust me, there is a lot of scope for collaboration on Word and Excel documents in the enterprise. Excel is used a lot for tracking progress on projects where a lot of people are involved. Most reports are in Word, and people are often stuck trying to work on the same document at the same time a day before it's due.
The thing I'm most jealous of in this article are the times.

Mine is set at 5:45 and not too long ago, 4:45.

These times let you squeeze in some early morning progress before the kids get up. Most of the time.