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Haha. Same progression for me, too. Towards the end of uni, my Windows rig completely broke down.

Being broke, I ended up with a Toshiba netbook that couldn't handle more than a few browser tabs at once. Installed Debian to squeeze out some performance over Windows XP (first foray into Linux). Best thing that ever happened to me.

Soon I learned vim, tmux, and had my entire dev environment in a Guake terminal overlay that I could quickly toggle in and out of view. It was like having two full screens in one.

My work just bought us monitors and everyone is dual/tri-screening it. I just dock my laptop and use the single monitor, still using the same guake/tmux/vim setup.
So, please, provide some examples. It's much more productive.
IMO, any new language that has inclusion as a mechanism for modules is not just at a developmental dead end, it's over the curb at the end of that dead end and in the retention pond beyond.

The parser and compiler should only need to examine each source file once.
I'm from the UK and flew Virgin America for the first time last month from Orlando to SF for $120 (a 5 hour flight) and thought it was amazing value.

Flying from London 5 hours in any direction costs around 4/5 times more for airlines that have a significantly worse experience than Virgin America.

But saying that I booked a flight to LA a few days ago and picked Southwest because it was $50 cheaper than VA and if the Florida flight would have been $50 cheaper on Southwest I would have gone with them too.

The way I see it is that I can deal with slightly less comfort on a flight if it means I save enough money to buy myself something like a new pair of Converse when I land.
Southwest's secret sauce is rapid turnaround of planes, flying from cheaper airports, and fleet commonality around one type so they can minimize maintenance, pilot training, etc. expenses. Plus, generally serving second-tier markets with less competition with direct service, vs. hub and spoke, which is only possible through volume. Plus, great labor relations vs. the other carriers.

The other thing they did which helped them a lot was Goldman-level hedging of fuel contracts, although that could have hurt them if prices had gone down (although when they took on all the hedges, prices for fuel were quite low, and everyone expected them to go up.)
A counter-example - Singapore Airlines is consistently ranked the best in the world and is also cost effective. Here's a link to an HBR case study:
http://hbr.org/2010/07/the-globe-singapore-airlines-balancin...
Disney acquiring Lucasfilm, planning new Star Wars movies
I'm curious what you think the high end "feature phone with a keyboard" is in the the first world? Third world?

I smiled when I read the following in joeyh's usesthis:

"If it doesn't have a keyboard, I feel that my thoughts are being forced out through a straw."
There is a difference in the sense that in Peru the laptops didn't have math or language software and in this case it did
It's a highly-regulated, highly capital intensive industry, with a complex perishable product, extremely price sensitive customers (it's basically a commodity), with a history of state champion regulated airlines everywhere, and continuing operation of national flag carriers on that basis. International flights are politically regulated as well (i.e. which of the 9 freedoms you get depends on binational agreements), and various countries seriously subsidize their airlines.

Plus, extreme variation in demand with the economy, and cost due to fuel.
I don't think the issue here is that people genuinely prefer the service of UA/AA/DL/US, or that VX's costs can find too few buyers, but rather that VX lacks a critical feature that domestic US flyers need.

Service to small destinations.

The population of the US is incredibly spread out, and while it'd be fun to imagine the bulk of domestic flying to be jaunts between LAX-SFO-ORD-BOS-JFK-EWR, the less glamorous truth is that the US out-flies every other country on Earth by virtue of local short-hauls.

The large, legacy airlines have an exclusive lock on offering seamless, single-experience flights between short-haul destinations hubbing through major cities.
For a while it was because they had pre-purchased all of their fuel at 2000ish oil prices using long-term futures contracts. The bet turned out to be extremely lucrative for them. However, most of their contracts are either expired or set to expire soon so I expect their prices to revert to the mean.

They do a couple of other clever things, like only fly a single type of plane to take advantage of economies of scale, and only fly out of airports that have cheaper gate licensing fees. But the futures contracts really helped them through the industry's rough patch so that they could expand and aggressively grow while their competitors were declaring bankruptcy.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1074147,00....
Check out the book, "The Power of Full Engagement." The short of it is that yes, you do need a break. You'll be more productive managing your time and doing important things (like occasionally relaxing and being sure to exercise regularly) than just trying to sit at your computer working 24/7.

Also, don't look at breaks as a major unplug or nothing at all. Our brains work in 90-120 minute cycles (similar to our sleep cycles) and so building in short breaks (even only 5-10 minutes) can be incredibly refreshing and make you more productive than if you cranked through a whole day.

The book is no BS either; the authors have helped Fortune 500 leaders and professional athletes rise to the top of their game (like helping a tennis player become #1 in the World).

Happy to talk more some time as I'm just wrapping the book up and starting to apply some of the lessons from it. It's helping me understand why for instance my most productive hour of my week is the hour after i keep home from my soccer games and how to have more heavy execution sessions like it.

Don't feel guilty. It's about working smart and hard.
(I'm referring to new sales, not existing userbase)

We don't buy high end featurephones in the first world in 2012 -- we have carrier subsidies on smartphones (with or without keyboard, but generally web browsing > texting, so I think for the kid/teen market in the US, keyboard phones aren't as popular as in Asia).

I think the US market is basically rich people or carrier subsidies on smartphones, or cheap phones (i.e. not featurephones, or maybe the very lowest tier with a camera but nothing else). Or of course people who have an old phone (probably an S60 featurephone) who just never upgrade, but they're irrelevant from a sales perspective, and will probably get pushed to a low-end Android phone on contract renewal, breakage, loss, etc.
The submitter probably disagreed with the article's conclusion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
I've written 335 pages of emails in 1.5 years of work
I buy three software at kiosk for five dollar, good deal?
I disagree, why will he eventually grow out of his fear of death?
I think if the majority of the worlds population didn't believe in a god, afterlife, mother nature or something like the spirit world then we would have millions of people with a active fear of death.

The only people that truly don't fear real death are atheists that have made peace with that fact.

I am a atheist that has not out grown a fear of death, but I can't relate to anyone I know because they all say the same as you, "you will eventually out grow that fear", then I ask what if I am right and when we die we are forever gone and there is no afterlife? They say "Well that is unlikely, there is something else out there" So everyone I know doesn't fear death, because they think they will never truly die anyway.

Like I said, the only people on earth that really do not fear death are a small amount of the atheist population that have come to accept death as inevitable. But what I think is that if all of humanity was atheist, we would be pouring billions in immortality research.
I'm glad they finally added the status program, but like you say it's not fantastic by any means. Fortunately for me, the only routes I fly regularly are covered by Virgin :)

However I think it's quite wise to get a loyal fanbase before trying to expand everywhere. SFO alone won't make them a huge player, but I for one will be recommending them to my friends once Virgin is available to them.
Well don't forget that they were doing tablets all the way back in 2002. They just didn't have the foresight or guts to revamp the ecosystem around it. So the tablets didn't work because they needed to take advantage of the existing mouse-based Windows ecosystem of software, most of which was just too cumbersome to use on a tablet with a stylus.

It took the internet about 10 years to really take off too and there were a lot of visionaries in the early 90s that just couldn't survive until the hockey stick growth really started to take off and validate their assessments.
So what? That means absolutely nothing to me as a customer.

I'm here speaking with other passengers and am finding that we were all told completely different things. People have been stranded here for 2 days and are being told to wait while others who stroll in with the pilot hours beforehand are given priority standby seats. Let's say there's a valid reason for that, you're sill leaving many customers feeling as if they're being pushed to the side. Everyone feels lied to and ignored.

I'm aware that this is one specific incident, but things like this have happened a handful of times to me, and I'm absolutely certain to thousands and thousands on a daily basis. It's absolutely absurd.
Hehe, you got me curious to read Oul's Egg.. quite interesting, but kind of bothered by the ending...
Southwest is THE low cost airline. That's their secret sauce. Virgin is being "the best way to fly" or whatever. Southwest cares about nothing else.

They don't do assigned seating because they found that without assigned seats they were able to fill the planes faster, meaning less time at the gate meaning more time in the air, meaning more legs in a day, which makes them more financially efficient.

Back in the day they didn't pay travel agents the %15, and sold direct instead, etc.

Southwest treats their employees very well, and while there is occasionaly a union squabble of some sort or another, they have much less of a problem than other airlines. Why? Becuase its' cheaper to treat your employees well. Seriously.

This also means that customers are happier because employees are happier.

The attitude of a southwest steward compared to the big three (Delta, United, Continental) is radically different. The big three employees often give me attitude and seem to think that dealing with me is some sort of an imposition-- and so I am loathe to fly on them (it only takes a couple incidents.)

Awhile back southwest merged with a regional carrier (frontier? no, something else) but that carrier was known for a gimick where the employees would sing on landing or do the safety lecture in rhyme and the pilots would tell jokes. Southwest didn't change this practice, and it became optional and now it's not unusual to fly on SWA and have a landing limmerick.

Their ticker symbol is LUV.

Southwest flies into Midland instead of DFW. They fly into the older city airports, not the big fancy new airports. Why? Gate fees are a huge operating cost (basically a license for the local government to extort as much as they can from the airlines for the "priviledge" of providing air travel that boosts the cities tax revenues anyway) ... but soutwest doesn't pay to be in the glamorous locations. You may walk further to your gate and your airport may not be as nice, but it saves them, and -- here's the important thing-- they pass that savings along.

Southwest doesn't serve hot meals. They give you a bag of peanuts labeled "Frills".

They are one of those unique companies like Apple and Zappos and Crutchfield that really put the customer first, and were willing to go against convention to do it.

Nothing against Virgin- I think they're trying to do the same thing and taking the high end of the market, and I'd love to fly Virgin if they had ever had an option on a route I was going (they haven't yet, so I haven't flown Virgin yet.)

But Southwest filters everything they do thru their mantra. They are THE low cost airline. Does whatever help that? No? Then don't do it.

Southwest is a result of focus, and that is a useful lesson for every startup.

I hear the book written by Herb Kehler (sp?) is well worth reading (I think it's called "Nuts" or something like that.)
I fly SFO <-> JFK very often. VX34 there and VX27 or VX29 back are my rides of choice, since I hate layovers and prefer redeyes. The wifi is passable too (don't try to SSH over it, though).
Are their any airlines that don't fail over the long haul? With the flux in fuel costs and the need to keep an aircraft in top shape combined with super low fares is seems to be a hard industry to stay alive over the long run. Over my lifetime I've seen a few entrepreneurs seem to crack the business (from Freddie Laker to David Neeleman) and they always seem to hit the wall after a point.
It isn't failing in the same way Facebook wasn't failing when it wasn't making money in its first almost-decade. Virgin is pouring all of its resources into expansion before making a profit, a business model straight out of silicon valley.

It is only a risk and failing if their ability to raise new money is hindered, and Virgin are a long, long way from that.
We use Freshdesk. We need to pay for 3 instead of 4 of us, as first agent is free. For a SAAS startup that is just getting started this fits our needs perfectly - support tickets that are captured via mail and listens to conversations on twitter, facebook and converts into tickets. Saves plenty of time. All the other features you mentioned are all covered - like knowledge base, feature requests etc.,

Disclosure: We are friends of Freshdesk team - Zoho alumni network. :)
No, not unless the device is colder than whatever is shining on it.

To make electricity the captured photons have to fall to a lower state - but if the solar cell is the same temperature the photons can't do that.
Is it a good idea to be headquartered in San Francisco? That's halfway between EVERYWHERE, and the vast uninhabited expanse of the Pacific. Most airlines have hubs inland.

(Maybe I'm just bitter because I'll probably never take a Virgin flight due to their route layout. Also I hate SFO.)
I have lots of them growing in my backyard.....
Microsoft Sued Over Windows 8 Tiles
You can turn a company around in a year. I hate to be that guy who points out Steve Jobs did it. But conceptually it isn't rocket science.

First thing you need to so is deal with cash flow. Can the company sustain itself so you have, in fact, a year to improve things? Now is the time to make hard decisions and cut efforts that make no sense at a strategic level. A weak CEO will wait 6-12 months before making such a decision. That just gives you time to bond to people that the company can ill afford to have on payroll. It takes two weeks to have the top lieutenants justify their existence and for you as CEO to decide whether the effort aligns with the best business model for company survival. Make the hard cuts when you have no ties yet. Apologize, explain it isn't personal and you may even be wrong. Make these the first and last cuts. Tell the remaining employees there will be no more layoffs for a year and that you have seen to it that there is cash on hand to recover and thrive. It is time to move on.

The second thing needed is to assess the talent landscape of those who remain and honestly provide an opportunity for all capable employees to prove themselves. The cream will rise to the top. Those that can reinvigorate the company will volunteer themselves. Now is the time to randomly choose to sit at a lunch table in the company cafeteria and make small talk with employees you don't know.

The third thing needed is to create a strategy that has a solid chance of being successfully executed by a select group of these volunteer go-getters. Steve identified Ives as one of these people and came up with the iMac strategy which could best utilize Ives' talent.

Sir Richard Branson is another exec who has had to employ this kind of strategy except while already running a company. He talks about the pain of having to give up Virgin Records to keep the rest of Virgin alive and then doubling down on a few verticals that he felt could reinvigorate the company. He might yet have another iteration of this with Virgin Atlantic. We will see.
Still working on that problem...
I've kicked around some ideas for this problem a while back. I think letting users define a "view" like this is a pretty good approach.

I also think a reasonable default is to just pick the the N most popular (where "popular" means defined and non-empty) non-object/collection fields in the root document and display them in a table, then double-clicking or whatever on that row brings up the full document.
Off topic but is anyone else bothered by the typos in this article? I would expect more from something published by Time. Don't their editors proof read the online articles?

Edit: Here are the two sentences I found. They're small but they have the staff to check for this, don't they.

"It’s fairly remarkable than (THAT) any airline can generate positive feelings among customers in today’s travel scene. But while Virgin America may be well-liked, it may not be well-suited to compete."

"Because Virgin America is young, it doesn’t have a (AS) large a network of routes"
I thought if you flew in or out of London the UK government subsidized the flight costs significantly, as a form of economic stimulus.

Hence Ryan Air has $14 pound flights to Berlin, and stuff like that. (been awhile since we lived in europe, so I could be out of date.)

At my age, and 20 years of flying on Southwest, if I ever got a chance to fly Virgin and it was $50 more, I'd pick Virgin. Historically Southwest has been my favorite airline and most flown airline, but I'm getting too old for the cattle car.
Definitely; I'd much rather do R&D as well. Good luck!
In your mind how do you distinguish Megaupload and Youtube?
Anand tests ARM A15 performance in new Chromebook
The page he points to heralds it as a form of non-invasive surgery (from what I skimmed). Based on your comment I was expecting some sort of immortality solution. Are you saying that investing in medical technology is a bad investment because we should just 'accept death?'
And definitely a case where an automated "middlebrow dismissal" detection algorithm would fail. I looked into it and still don't think it is possible. What makes this comment different from the bad ones? It seems entirely dependent on the context of the article itself.
Did you work BEFORE you went to school? I think a lot of this could be avoided by having kids take 1-2 years between high school and college to work. Then they would know what to study. It is kind of a catch-22 though.

I gravitated towards the theoretical in my B.S. and Masters subjects because that's what I liked. In retrospect I should have learned more about OS's and such. Though I learned it while working through self-study, so it worked out OK.

My education gave the impression that all computer scientists did was various kinds of linear algebra, whereas I don't think I've used linear algebra once in 10 years of professional programming, even working at a video game company, and Google (i.e. I've actually had jobs more likely to use math than most programming I would say)

On the other hand, I don't think you should be annoyed... theoretical foundations are worth learning. A lot of stuff you mention will be less important or commodified in some way in 10 years. Your education is supposed to last your whole life, not just prepare you for whatever's hot the decade after you graduate.
Scope - JavaScript closures vs. anonymous functions
What good can come out of a lawsuit like this, which sounds like it will fail anyway? As usual, the only people that benefit are Lawyers.
EFF: "Feds put up insurmountable hurdle" to get your seized MegaUpload data
A resume that said the applicant had programmed with C, C+ and C++ used to be a tell. Not any more, I guess.
If running an airline isn't sufficiently profitable, there won't be enough spare capacity to handle irregular operations, personalized customer service, etc.

Some of it is just being badly run, but a lot of it is trying to eke out as much efficiency as possible.

The only way to win is not to play; the airline industry still has overcapacity as a result of the legacy carriers and deregulation, so it's not a great idea to enter the market. The exception is air cargo -- FedEx is an AMAZING business.
Does anyone know what it is they're building? I'm struggling to think of a market that is dominated by free that could also be made easier. Email seems like a possible bet as all the other major email providers are free.
In a post-PC world Microsoft will turn into what IBM was in the 90s: A profitable well run company that's no longer in the zeitgeist of what's going on. It's starting to feel like Microsoft isn't even in the same business as Google or Apple, and I suspect they can turn that into an advantage. To me Surface and the Xbox proves that Microsoft can make hardware, so the next DEC will be a company like Dell or HP if they don't don't exit the PC business.
> the brand recognition and coverage they'll get
> from doing this will more than make up for any loss

This is not easily quantifiable, and therefore people that spend too much attention to 'bean counting' will just see this as a loss (and possibly not even do it in the first place).
And to add insult to injury/starvation: the person who got to the store first probably bought 10x more food then they needed and now has a bunch of food spoiling in their non-functioning refrigerator.
The folks who strolled in earlier might have more status (miles/revenue) on this airline, and having that means a great deal to the airline's systems and humans. They know what you're worth to the company and whether it's worth bumping someone else lower on the totem. It doesn't feel good but it's generally pretty rational.
I'm admittedly not too tuned-in with the Mongo/Redis/Couch communities, but I do hear from a lot of folks using my native GUI http client tool to interact with their web APIs. I kind of assumed that most users of them were fairly happy to use low level/command-line tooling - is there a big unmet demand for native GUI tools for things like Mongo, Redis, etc?
Right is subjective. Care to explain? Maybe there is no single device that gets everything right? But are there separate devices that each got one aspect right? Care to give examples?

My pint is that Windows ecosystem is all about diversity. If there exist separate devices, some manufacturer will bring the together.
Singapore airlines get access to a lot of the best long haul routes in the world because its government negotiates it for them as part of larger trade deals.

Singapore is also well situated politically (it has no real enemies anymore, so while China may deny a US airline they wouldn't deny Singapore), geographically and commercially in terms of global trade.

The lesson here is that if you want to run a super cheap airline, make sure you are backed by the government of one of the wealthiest countries and major trading hubs in the world.
It's a highly-regulated

-- Not enough, or not in the right way.

Not a political or even an economic argument. The purpose of regulation is to get the consumer something that is a decent product for a decent price, in a manner that is efficient in time and money.

Virgin has proved that on a level playing field they can compete on product, via Virgin Atlantic. Jet Blue was the first Domestic Carrier to even try on the Product Front. The US carriers are apalling and quite frankly embarassing. Even the us automakers have been improving their quality and design in the past 5 years. If they can do it, so can the airlines. =/