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How do you feel about building codes? Plumbing and electrical codes?

Do you agree the issue is deciding where the government chooses to intervene with a "shall not" directive, or do you reject such directives entirely?
Ah, ok cool. I haven't tried using PEGs and I don't even know the theory behind it, so I'm watching a video [1] by the author of LPEG now, which is quite good. Cheers!

[1] http://vimeo.com/1485123
What you are describing is quite similar to this - http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-11-01/india... - any thoughts? Is this the same girl we are talking about? Sounds like it is.
It's a pretty smart strategy. Charge people to communicate--it should reduce spam and bring FB more revenue. One thing I'm not sure of is how effective promoted posts are. I built a website and tried a few different ad platforms. I saw the best performance from Google's Adwords and the worst performance from Facebook.
Why hasn't one of the incubators or a startup solved these problems? Between apartment phase and some reasonable maturity point (20-50 people?), one could have a reasonably large building or set of nearby buildings that's subdivided from companies of various sizes. It would have the benefit of: Centralized food acquisition either with community eating or distribution to each unit; centralized administrative services; pre-furnished units which simplifies moving; and big company benefits such a onsite gym, dry cleaning, etc.

Presumably such a entity should also provide centralized arrangement of benefits, payroll, legal documents and other issues. An extreme form would be to have this management company run resource companies that make all hires on pass-through basis and submit a single consolidated bill to the main company each month.

Why wouldn't this work? I can think of only three reasons though I'm not convinced any of them are true: Insufficient supply of sufficiently homogenous companies (e.g. software startups); sufficient diversity of preferences for customization, particularly with regard to location to create insufficient density; or fear of poaching due to close proximity to other companies that require the same skillset
We outsourced our HR, and although I don't know all the gritty details because my CEO cofounder is taking care of it, I know he likes it a lot.

Although one quibble I had with it was that they gave us a standard policy handbook to have signed by employees which was ridiculous and out of touch with the realities of tech startup (ie employees shouldn't use their work computer to send personal emails, etc). We sent it back to them and they were accommodating.

(Algentis is the one we're using)
One of the few headlines that are the exception to Betteridge's Law.

(Yes.)
At some age, no amount of skill is going to help much. Someone will employ a developer nearing senior citizenry, but they'll want a deep discount over what they'd pay for younger.
To offer a data point from the other side of the hyperplane: I remember emailing PG way back in 2009 for some advice on grad school. He was polite, to the point and helpful.
That article is ancient, and has drawbacks discussed in other places.
Everyone interested has already seen it (its googleable by just "javascript inheritance").
The food on there is pretty disgusting. Not sure why startup culture goes together with junk food. It's like buying poison for your team.
When I used an LTE device, it was the first time browsing over cellular felt like a WiFi connection. It was definitely really nice, though I think you can blow your data budget pretty quickly.
Amazon is creating value by reducing waste and streamlining distribution of goods. They operate in a fair market, and if they ever raise their prices later they'll be undercut by someone else, so they don't have a monopoly which you should fear. They do have some DRM in place with Kindles and such, but I believe you're overblowing this. What are you worried about in particular?
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Being currently steeped in responsive design (not mobile-first, which really, the opening link for this thread is a mobile-first approach, that happens to be responsive), I concur. We have 6 small screens and 9 tablets we use for testing... design is important, but design is a wrapper for content... some better, some bad, some awesome.

The question being, as we consider stepping firmly into the scenario of an unpredictably wide range of screen sizes and use-cases accessing the content we create, should we also consider the amount of copy we impose on smaller screens and/or mobile users with unknown time/bandwidth for content consumption? I think responsible creators of digital content should consider content-length as much as UI.
"I have been writing JavaScript for 8 years now, and I have never once found need to use an uber function. The super idea is fairly important in the classical pattern, but it appears to be unnecessary in the prototypal and functional patterns. I now see my early attempts to support the classical model in JavaScript as a mistake."
that's just sophistry. as far as the people using facebook to socially network with their friends are concerned, it's a free resource that benefits everyone. trying to layer a cdn atop it benefits no one except the defectors getting free hosting[0], and hurts everyone else by degrading their qos[0].

[0] again, this is all in theory; as far as this particular hack goes i agree it's fairly harmless insofar as no one is really going to try hosting a website off fb updates.
Facebook says that "all content should be as engaging as the posts you see from friends and family." But how does the company square that with the sly offering of the opportunity to override the irrelevance or poor quality of a post with dollar bills?

I think Ars Technica is conflating reputation and quality with audience size. Number of Likes and Fans corresponds to 1 to 5 star ratings on Amazon—a measure of quality and reputation; Subscriptions (a relatively new Facebook feature) correspond to voluntary signups to a newsletter. Growth in the former doesn't—shouldn't—have anything to do with the later.

You don't buy away the problem of irrelevance or quality: the measure of that on Facebook is obvious. Lots of Likes = High Quality.

You are just buying a bigger audience. The ads are like buying more Subscriptions, targeted to people who are likely to Subscribe to your content anyway.

Dangerous Minds wrote about how it rose from 29,000 to 53,000 Facebook likes even as traffic to its site from shared Facebook posts went down by one half to two-thirds in the same time period.

Dangerous Minds doesn't get it. Just because you're high quality doesn't mean you automatically have a huge audience!

I think this is the right move for Facebook from a design point of view. Likes aren't Shares aren't Subscriptions. Separating the audience measure from the quality measure helps everyone get better information out of these numbers.
For the most things that commonly matter - it is automatic. Your GMail, Google Music (or Amazon for that matter), Photos (If you have G+ app installed), Contacts, App list, wallpaper, WiFi and other settings are all automatically backed up to the cloud and restored when you factory reset or get a new phone and sign in to your Google account.

For things such as SMS and full system backup - you have to take things in your own hand. SMS is easy with a 3rd party app, full system backup can be done using Titanium if your phone is rooted or by using command line scripts using adb. (adb supports encrypted backup to the desktop.) Also various OEMs provide their own Desktop sync program - like Samsung Kies - that make it easy to backup/restore using a PC. But it is fairly unnecessary to go to that length - default backup + SMS backup app works quite well for most.
Yeah, we get fruit and other perishables, of course. I was just describing the items I can (and do) order off Amazon.
I mainly disagree with this.

It is extremely hard to comprehend how short life is. Most people actively avoid knowing. They tell themselves stories about eternal life, or they act like they have all the time in the world. When circumstances conspire to wake us to the transitory nature of life, it can be incredibly valuable.

I violently disagree with the notion that the heat death of the universe "means that it really, really doesn't matter what you accomplish." That's like saying it isn't worth cooking a beautiful meal because 48 hours later it will all be poop. That there's no point to love if the body will soon be dust.

Nothing lasts, but that doesn't mean that nothing matters. If you want intuitive proof of that, go rent Rivers and Tides:

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

It's a documentary about Andy Goldsworthy. Much of his art is ephemeral. The transitory nature of it make is more beautiful, not less.
After reading the site and clicking the sign up button, it appears that this is for a "one run" job of x shirts. What if I am interested in on demand printing... any plans to support that (for example, printing as I get orders, which could only be a couple shirts at a time)?

Also, I'm concerned about quality of print, with the unknown of who these printers are, how do i know that it's a good quality print? Is there a guarantee?
The thing is, I get about that speed on T-Mo's HSPA+. Sitting in my apartment, also running the Speedtest.net app, I'm getting 16 Mb/s down. The tiny extra oomph isn't worth worrying about for me.
Speaking of leangains, doesn't that system offer the option of not eating at all at work? Though to be honest, not eating can be hard if you're under stress.
I get the hype surrounding LTE, I'm just not that excited about it when (here in Canada) I have a monthly 5GB cap.
I prefer to describe it to people as thinking the box, knowing the contents, and being willing keep it neat and tidy inside.
Facebook: No one goes there any more, its too crowded.
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I see parallels here with Google converting their free traffic streams in to paid clicks; Adwords, Product Listing Ads, etc..
I was thinking exactly the same thing. You can complain about your job going to India, Russia or Eastern Europe all you like, but the sorts of jobs that are realistically compatible with those locations shouldn't be paid highly or in demand in the first place. The short of it is GOOD people are still HARD to find (heaven knows I've been looking for them).

The other thing that rubbed me the wrong way is this guy was taking 6 month holidays and working when he felt like it. Then he gets all upset when there's a low in the market and he's desperate for cash. What ever happened to making hay when the sun shines?

Surely with "decades of experience," this guy should have saved plenty by that point in his life to have a happy early retirement; but by the sound of it he's taken the work and salary for granted and wasted it away.
The resource curse is very real and well documented: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

The only seeming exception I can think of is Norway, which has a highly unusual massive government savings program to deal with its oil wealth, and then only discovered that wealth fairly recently.
You should look at the historic data: So how did you do in October of this year vs. October of last year or the year before? That will tell you if you're hitting a specific season that's slow. You should also look at what people are buying since that will also give you clues. Also it's not the amount of traffic you get, but the quality of it — are your readers as good as they were when you first started the blog?
I agree with your last statement, but did you make bank through your projects? Am not sure if this was your aim but would be interested.
Perhaps the best way to put it is that this kind of question measures an ability to discern the edges of the box.
Ignoring the fact that this post contains refer.ly links and is really just SEO bait produced by the refer.ly CEO, I find that carbs and caffeine do not make me more productive at work. I used to think they did, but in reality they only borrowed productivity from the future which must be paid back, with interest, making them a net loss.
That's not a bad idea for this time, but it might be a bad precedent to set.
I disagree. I believe there is a threshold level of performance beyond which casual users cannot discern any improvement.

I believe that threshold for CPU performance is currently around a low/mid-range i5. Getting a faster processor than that will not translate into any tangible benefits in everyday usage. Even if there were a CPU that had twice the performance of an i5, an end user can not tell the difference between "practically instantaneous" and "1/2 practically instantaneous."

Likewise, there are limits to storage capacity. My parents, for example, store everything on a single 1TB hard disk. Their drive barely has 250GB used, OS and all. At their current rate of consumption, they might exceed 50% disk use in 5 years. Now we could come up with cases where the computer user is a photographer, a videographer, or likes to collect linux isos, but I believe in most real "casual use" cases, anything >1TB (currently) may as well be infinite.

Obviously there are also upper limits on what screen size a casual user would be able to effectively utilize. We should note, of course, that many casual users do not understand how to effectively manage windows between two monitors. I think the coming increase in pixel density coupled with a medium (say, 21 inch) monitor would provide a casual user with about as much screen as they could effectively use.

Lastly, there are cost trade-offs for all these things. Consider home internet. It is true that power users might be able to make do with internet speeds that would frustrate casual users (e.g. using Opera Turbo or using a data plan.) However, in my area for example, you would have to pay roughly 3x as much to get a "performance" 25 Mbps package versus the entry level 3-5 Mbps. Would it make sense for someone to pay that much more for internet just so that their youtube videos buffered faster?
Is there an emacs-mode for it?
That's a dangerous way to think about it. Success often requires sacrifice, but sacrifice does not bring success.

The median time to exit from venture funding is something like 6 years. During that, you need to be at the top of your game as much of the time as possible.

I have a friend who's a serious endurance athlete. He trains hard, but he's just as dedicated about rest. Weekly massages and spa visits, great food, a clean and restful home, a lot of quiet time. Sacrificing those comforts would make him look more macho, but they'd reduce his effectiveness.

If somebody needs a daily dose of sun and sand to be at the top of their game, godspeed.
Good job. I built something similar a year ago. Is based on Backbone as well with the difference that you can search by genre and for karaoke results http://440.fm
The difference in computing required between just displaying a list of the files in there vs interrogating each file, generating a thumbnail on the fly and possibly sorting based on some metadata

Perhaps it's just me but I would happily trade in all that gimmickery for a usable file manager on OSX. I don't care for thumbnails.

I think I have tried every finder-addon and replacement under the sun. Nothing comes close to the frictionless and fast experience that (dare I say it) Windows98 Explorer gave me 14 years ago.
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A point on 3. Some devs know what they are doing and prefer working alone in a quiet area. A lot of other devs have no idea what they are doing and disparage any situation where people aren't practically sharing seats and doing each other's work. Why? because they want other people around them to answer their questions, to do their work, and solve their problems. They are not "feeding" off interaction. They simply don't know the job. Do surgeons only work in groups because surgery is such as social experience that they feed off the social energy which lets them really bro down and do some surgery? No.

The people who typically put offices together usually don't come from an academic background and they typically don't do anything by themselves. Ever. They go from meeting to meeting all day. They have no basis for understanding that some jobs require individual effort. They buy group B's pitch by default. So they make some really bad mistakes:

Open floor plan - great for people who need to ask a lot of questions. bad for people who know the answers and will get interrupted.

Face to Face seating - great for people who want to get other people's attention. bad for people who want to concentrate on hard problems.
You can do an "on demand" submission at any time, typically though, it is not cost effective. 99% of our work is done via screen printers, which is a time consuming process, some will bid a small number like that, some won't. Everything is guaranteed, if you are not happy with the print quality, we refund 100% of the purchase. Quality tees are a catch-22, in that on demand (1 or 2 at a time) is not cost effective, but how do you know the design will sell, etc, so there is risk involved. If you have an specific questions about selling your own designs (I assume that's why you were asking), let me know. Eventually I would like to have printers save screens, or keep a rotation that I can send out to allow small ecommerce sites to do 1-2 at a time, as orders come in, but Im not there just yet.
I believe you D. ;)
I agree that words cannot convey the experience of loss. But I don't think that means that you can't do some good with it.

The trick for me has been to try to exemplify and communicate the lessons I've learned, not the process by which I learned them. Being more joyful in the moment. Being more compassionate in the face of suffering. Facing death and loss squarely when it does come up. Declining to participate in the American game of pretending that death does not exist.

Also, I think you can sometimes talk effectively about the direct experience of loss. For example, I got a lot of positive feedback on this, despite the darkness of the topic:

http://www.quora.com/Death-and-Dying-1/What-does-it-feels-li...
But if we Mark your words, how can we trust that you won't change them later?

[Sorry for the bad joke. I myself hate seeing jokes on Hacker News, but I just couldn't resist.]
Correct, my viewpoint is that seatbelt laws are a good thing. Your insurance company will make you pay more for not wearing seatbelts. The math dictates it. I have no way to make you pay more (other than raising your taxes which you may or may not pay depending on your income). Thus my only recourse is to make you wear a seatbelt via a law that my representatives in the government impose and enforce. Do I have any business making you pay for not wearing a seatbelt (via fines or higher premiums)? Yes, so long as I am on the hook for your medical bills. The waiver I mention is fictional not only because we could never enforce it, but also because the medical staff admitting you takes an oath to treat you. However, my argument is that the waiver is the minimum requirement for the financial math to work out. Therefore seatbelt laws are in place for a reason, do more good than harm, and are absolutely in my right to demand of my government. In that sense my argument is absolutely sincere.

On top of the above, I spent many years in a country with a poor healthcare system and lax seatbelt laws. The results were not pretty.

Lastly, in your original post you seem to suggest a possibility that the government telling you to put on a seatbelt is somehow comparable to being a slave in the early days of this country. If that really was your suggestion, I am not sure how to respond to such misrepresentation of reality.
I pay $40 a month for 500MB Yay!
assuming a decent computer is affordable by average ppl. why bother killing this n that, switching here and there just to accomodate an old/cheap computer? just my thought :)
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Just get two guys to do it and see how their stories correlate.
Without the means or training to manage the victim's airway, there's no advantage to removing the helmet. Leave it for trained rescuers.
I'm running the latest release of OS X (10.8.2) on a 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro from 2007. The only thing the OS has done is improve in speed over its predecessors. I am not sure that it is entirely accurate to say that the Apple development team got SSDs before we did because there was a noticeable difference in speed on my laptop that was definitely appreciated.
I'm on the TMo $30 prepaid. It is awesome. HSPA+ is very fast and responsive. I'm in NYC though where I know they are particularly good.
HSPA+ runs about 8mbit from what I understand. LTE is in most major cities now and people regularly pull down 35mbit (I have witnessed this myself on Telstra in Melbourne). Pretty big difference.

I was awaiting this new phone but severely disappointed at such a blunder on Google's part. Phone is basically dead and obsolete on arrival. Shame.
That's one source of negative utility in this case. A general cost-benefit analysis of this policy decision would need to take into account quite a few more.

Anyway, I was referring to tptacek's apparent failure to consider that someone might think some finite number of deaths acceptable.
That is basically what I do. I drink a protein shake around 2 PM. Ideally, this is all I eat till I go home and then pack on a big dinner. Having said that, practically there are times when you eat out (Team lunches, parties at work etc). It takes some getting used to and I was always the kind who used to skip breakfast so it works well for me.

I completely agree with the not eating under stress being hard part. It is doubly annoying when someone else's perspective on "Healthy food" is forced upon you at these times.
Probably one of the best reads I've had to date..

gl bro.
You have a good point, and I completely agree. This "Startup Paradise" is advertised as almost the exact opposite of that though. While the area may be cheap, trying to do a worthwhile startup under the guise of a tropical vacation detracts from the intense effort required to put into the company.
A bridge doesn't have to be anywhere near water. I would have answered "Shaded Areas" - why wouldn't a bridge or an overpass that's lit by the sun keep warm longer than an area that's in the shade?
You're doing a great job, man! Keep it up. We hope you can get as much support as you need here.
Yeah, I outsourced HR (to Accretive, used by a couple other HNers). We didn't go with a PEO, though.
No idea. Do you have any?
There are plenty of other cardiac abnormalities that can cause sudden cardiac death. Wolff-Parkinson-White (and other conduction pathway disorders), prolonged Q-T syndrome, etc...
he needs citations and authority to say that it isnt only russian with an underground economy for cyber crime?
I specifically said not to focus on the wrong thing and yours is one of a string of comments that does exactly that. But I am glad you get and agree with my point.
I buy a lot of books, mainly used, mainly physical. In most cases, I find that I can get as good or better price vie Abebooks as through Amazon.

Amazon, like Walmart, while it saves money for consumers, takes a lot of that money out of producers' margins. Selling through Amazon is a low-margin business.
When it comes to Facebook, never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.
In addition, no LTE allows them to run a smaller battery, which also holds costs down.
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Finally some one who honestly wants to contribute to charities. I think this is an excellent idea. Great article and good luck. We need more people like you.
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