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I've worked remotely for most of my career.

I've had companies that didn't care where my 'remote' was (my home, a coffee shop, my farm, etc), but I've had companies get really anal about where my 'remote' was.

I'm working a mixed-mode gig now -- in the office two days a week, remotely the rest -- and I'm far less productive when I'm on-site than I am when I'm working from home. (For example, I'm on-site today, and they're watching Spaceballs on the tv nearest my cube -- so the next two hours are a total wash to me; as a consultant, I couldn't really ask for anything better)
Hostess proposed an across-the-board pay cut of about 8%, a bump of 3% over the next three years, and a 1% bump in the final (among other things). I highly doubt Hostess is closing factories merely to get out of union contracts. Hostess first went to bankruptcy court back in 2004. This is just the icing on the Ho Ho.
Ha beat me to it, and spot on.
Astronauts Could Survive Mars Radiation
I'd bet dollars to donuts (or Twinkies) that there will be a new team, made up of a few members of former management at Hostess, who will raise funds and purchase the most valuable assets of Hostess. That team probably already exists, and the private equity company already has the contracts written.

They will then be starting with a clean slate, with only the really valuable assets (the brands, mostly), and none of the baggage of old contracts and agreements.

Of course, another company might buy up those assets, since bankruptcy sales have outside oversight (to some degree), and thwart those plans. But, I'm confident those plans are underway, and would be surprised if it doesn't turn out with some of old management heading up the new company that begins producing Twinkies again.
crandles is hell-banned, but posted what looks like a very relevant comment. [EDIT: he doesn't look hell-banned, I have no idea what is going on, since it doesn't appear to be a duplicate either] Pasting:

If its just a matter of styling, then there is a movement to make styling these sort of components as accessible as anything else on the web. Its still in spec, but you should take a look at the Shadow DOM.

Not the most familiar with it, but I believe the gist of it is to allow developers to create self-contained widgets (or at least part of its usefulness). With it, you'll also be able to access/manipulate browser elements (they'll be presented with a Shadow DOM interface just like a custom widget).

Think styling an HTML5 Video/Audio Player. Each browser may have their own interface, but they'll be built using components, and you'll have access to them using CSS/Javascript in your web page. With the Shadow DOM, you should be able to manipulate said datepicker.

edit: styling a video tag example
http://blog.romanliutikov.com/coding/discover-the-dark-side-...

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Even if you have unilmited RAM, at some point context switching overhead will slow down the process as you add extra simultaneous jobs. Moreover, with the Linux BFS scheduler, optimum performace is achieved when the number of jobs is equal to the number of CPUs.
E-mail should be simple, quick, as should everything else.

Just build out a .muttrc then move on: http://www.muttrcbuilder.org/
I believe he means that if you cannot use an architecture where you push presentation logic to the client as JavaScrpt (aided by an MVC-like framework like Backbone), serve all HTML/CSS/JS statically, and serve data dynamically through a web service (e.g. node + express or express-resource, RoR or Sinatra, MS Web API or WCF), then it's important to know a modern (MVC-based) server-side web framework dynamically generating HTML.
The company had played the "liquidation" card before. I don't have a reference, but it was mentioned in one of the articles I read today.

I believe the strike was "the straw that broke the camel's back", although a strike carries more weight than the proverbial straw, it certainly is not the sole thing to blame.

But it is a factor, and a helluva big one. If the company you work for is in dire straits, and you want to recover and for you to keep your job, striking is probably not a wise choice.
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iOS 5.1.1 Safari also supports these.
It looks like that entire article is blogspammed from this (good) CNNMoney article: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/26/hostess-twinkie...
I apologize if my tone has particularly bothered you, but I don't think that I have done anybody any harm. I'm not going to apologize for it any more than that.

Anyway, I think we have misunderstood each other.

> "I accused you of blaming the user because of comments such as "If they are using something particularly weird, that is their own damn fault""

I agree with you there. I am blaming the user.

Where we differ is that I have, with admittedly strong words, objected to the implication that blaming the user is inherently wrong or bad to do.

There is a certain amount of work I am willing do to for the sake of the user with use-cases dissimilar to my own. If I'm on linux, and inotify seems like the best too for the job, I'll either abstain from using it, or use it but make an attempt to cover other common possibilities. I think it is my responsibility as a developer to think of others to this degree, if I am simultaneously not following standards and not making concessions, then I am not being fair.

Using autotools is way over that helpfulness threshold though. If that much effort is involved then I am sorry, but I expect the user to do some legwork themselves.
Twinkies Maker Hostess Plans to Go Out of Business
The Krispy Kreme situation is quite different. They had an accounting scandal that actually caused them to contract, in addition to the health craze reasons that many people assume.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/11/business/11place.html?_r=0
Mind and Machine: Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence
Given that a good majority of the posts by startups here on Hacker News is aimed at attracting new customers, I see nothing wrong with this one. They analyzed their data and talked out the results. At no point did I feel pressured to learn more about their product, although out of curiosity I did checkout their main page.
In a system without patents, collusion would be checked by increased competition.
As it is, FRAND patents are irrelevant, because as it has been already shown, some
companies fail to disclose, others refuse to play... and are not required to boot.

But even if all companies played by the FRAND rules, there would still be fundamental
unfairness in the system, not unlike one that FRAND proponents point out. That
unfairness lies in the fact that FRAND or not, unscrupulous incumbents will relentlessly
seek any 'redress' against newcomers. In other words, they will hammer you with any
patent they think they have a good chance of flattening you with. This goes a long
way to furthering their ability to form cartels, especially among the big incumbents
with thousands of patents.

As an aside, I also find the cognitive dissonance exhibited in these debates quite
entertaining. On the one hand we have the contingent that proclaims that "GREED is good!",
a la Mr. Gekko. Nice. If they can prevent you from practicing your very own idea, they would.
But then, the very same contingent all of a sudden grows a moral backbone when they resort
to the arguments: "But you stole my ideaz?!?".

I reject any notion that FRAND regime is special. If you're not invited to be a party
to a standard, then create your own. The 'can't work around' argument doesn't hold water.

The same exact, 'can't work around' argument is often very applicable to any patent
discussion. At least in the case of copyrights, we have the merger doctrine. In the
case of patents, if someone managed to lock up fundamental methods, good luck. In fact,
the system is so screwed that it's possible for someone to lock up methods that they
didn't even discover.

Herein lies another problem however: creating your own standard would not absolve you
of any territorial squabbles. In fact, in that case, and now being outside the umbrella
of FRAND, unscrupulous incumbents will try to make this quite impossible for you, with
the patents supporters, and particularly the FRAND crowd uttering nary a whisper.
Their total sales were down 11%, but Twinkies remained their best seller. It's possible that the whole business was dragged down by other house brands that needed to be killed, but couldn't be without shedding more jobs.

(Twinkies are gross.)
While your comment is true on its face, unfortunately it has led to a culture where inhouse applications suffer from horrendous usability problems. As a result, two things happen: you end up with a limited number of people who can actually use those tools (creating bottlenecks), and those people are not very efficient because the poorly designed nature of the tools means spending way too much time getting them to work properly.

edit: I think as an industry of professionals we need to get away from "it just needs to work, it doesn't need to look pretty." Even when I develop tools for personal use, I try to make them as usable as possible. It's easier to take pride in something that not just works well, but also looks good.
I'm an architect in my firm and I'm tired of:
a) .NET-ters who will use something only if it is .NET or at least Microsoft
b) Javers who think that everything non-java is universal evil.

(We have 45% of .NET-ters, 35% of javers, 20% : devDBAs, Js-ers, others)

My propaganda is always: "Be programmers, mazafakerz!"
And python is excellent tool for explaining ideas between this groups. Javer will not be offended if I show him .NET-code and otherwise.

For them python is "executable pseudo-code".

It will be sad for me if pythonistas became a caste like .NET, Java ... and Haskel (they are not a caste but have all possibilities to became one)
Whenever I work from home I make sure that I set a cutoff time or clear stopping point near the end of what I want to be my "work day". Then I remove myself from my computer, take a walk or cook dinner or watch a movie or do anything that isn't code/work. Then if I have other work to do at night (for my job or for my own projects) it feels separate.
I think they get screwed either way.

You say it has 16GB and then once you turn it on and it says 32GB in the system screen, now people are pissed your OS and apps take up too much room.

Tell people its got 32GB and then they find out they only have 16GB of actual storage and they get pissed for you misrepresenting the actual storage amount.

I'm sure this will be settled quietly out of court with a nice undisclosed amount for said lawyer.
I shared this link earlier and had the word "iconic" in it. Simply because growing up in the US, everyone knows what Twinkies are. Whether you like it or not.
While it looks interesting, I have no idea that they do, and their website does not answer that question. Can you explain?
Oil rig explodes in Gulf of Mexico
Twitter borks its service on Windows 8 by denying Tweetro a token extension
I did fail to mention I visit the office (a 2hr flight from home) for a week out of every six or so.. which helps me with some of the things you mentioned. I do have random conversations when I'm up there over beers or dinner that wouldn't likely happen via phone calls or on Skype. It's definitely nice.

Another downside that gets me sometimes is that I miss shared whiteboards. I'm a pretty visual/physical thinker. It's nice to have a whiteboard you can both see. We mostly supplement w/ screen sharing or SMSing iphone images of sketches. It works but it's not ideal. One of the things I'd love to work on someday is tools to make remote-work better/easier. For instance, I think it's rad that many of the 37signals folks work remotely and build tools that scratch that particular itch.
It's a underpowered eeepc. I have some difficulty with youtube, fullscreen youtube is impossible.

If they gave me an SD stream that I could throw at mplayer, then that would work, but I don't reasonably expect them to do that just for me.
You can spend $10 to get HBO because you have cable. For those of us that don't, HBO Go is not an option.
Been in the US for a few years now, this format still drives me crazy :( It isn't logical at all
Treemuggers? Leaf deniers? Concretists?
If that's the case, then why all the science surrounding String Theory? It's been declared 'unprovable'.
trying to figure out that myself. i mostly lurk, and have only ever commented a few times. not feeling very welcomed atm!
I've been happily using Windows 8 since the RTM months prior to the retail release and I mostly like it, but I've experienced a lot of Explorer crashes. These aren't a huge deal because the OS detects the crash and restarts another explorer automatically within seconds, but it is a bit annoying that it happens so often.

I haven't really looked into the issue much because it isn't a showstopper but I suspect the problem has to do with thumbnail generation because I mostly see it when navigating folders full of video clips used for video editing. It is possible/probable that explorer itself isn't what is crashing but rather some dependent codec used for the thumbnailing is crashing, but it would be nice if explorer isolated itself better from such crashes.
I don't hate to see them go, and not for health reasons.

This is what is supposed to happen when a company can not perform efficiently with the resources it has. I realize the strike killed this company, but it was severely wounded and bleeding already. No guarantee it would have survived much longer, strike or no strike.

In these situations, it is good for the company to fold. Sell off it's assets and let another business that can make better use of these resources do so.

If a company is squandering resources, that is a drag on the economy. Much better to let someone new withe better ideas and better execution come into play. Bankruptcy and Liquidation lets this happen. It's a good thing.

If a company can pick up these resources and use them more efficiently, they will hire people. And maybe all the things that Hostess fell short on with the union contract will not be a problem for a company that can execute efficiently.

While that is certainly not the only possible outcome, I think it is a likely one.
I hope the game (if it catches on) is sensitive to traffic congestion, or decreases rewards for driving in traffic, and further, doesn't steer people toward areas of increased smog, car-on-pedestrian accidents, or crime (I'll bet the EULA disclaims that liability).

Getting shut-ins outside where they can be hit by cars may have net health benefits (and people can choose for themselves).
Nobody is blaming the bankruptcy on strikes; they were in bankruptcy long before this strike. What's happened as a result of the strike is that their Chapter 11 (restructuring) has changed to Chapter 7 (liquidation), because they are not capable of generating revenue if they can't reliably produce products, and their operational overhead is huge.
Obligatory link to Irwin Schiff's 'How an Economy Grows and Why it Doesnt' http://freedom-school.com/money/how-an-economy-grows.pdf

But regarding your original point, foreign govts and banks hold the US dollar because historically it has been strong, stable and accepted everywhere. It has no intrinsic value and recently governments are moving away from solely pegging their currencies to the US dollar as it has weakened relative to other currencies in the past few decades (eg Euro).

Another reason they take the US dollar is that they have no other choice. If China or Saudi Arabia were to say 'we want gold!' or 'we want resources!', trade relations would have stopped a long time ago.
Good point, he would have to demonstrate that the store doesn't accept returns, for example. If it does, without a restocking fee, then I don't think he would have a case.

Pointing out how much the operating system takes up is a marketing and PR issue. Not a legal one.
It takes 18,500 to put Twinkies on the shelves across the entire US.
"pro-tree" vs "anti-tree"
I doubt even YC have that information.
Why is Twitter adding so many restrictions on their API Usage?
make -l (--load-average) will throttle the number of make jobs, so you can specify a big -j to have many ready jobs but ensure you don't exceed run more than your number of CPUs.
The $64,000 question: how many private trackers have been infiltrated by these watchers? I turned off the cable 2+ yrs ago and have been torrenting tv shows since then (no movies or music). When I get my first notice, I'll be getting a seed box ($15/mo for a decent one).

EDIT: I would happily stop torrenting and pay $20-30 for the few shows I watch. If, say, all of them were on a Hulu-like service, I'd definitely go that route.
The complaint about typedefs and Win32 is kind of odd. These are style choices that libraries and large projects should be entitled to make.

I used to work at MS and grew very comfortable (and appreciative) of the stylistic choices in the NT kernel (distinct from the Win32 style, one key difference is much less Hungarian notation). But I can jump back into more typical-of-*nix styles with ease. Or the more Win32 style if preferred. I think it's important to see the merits and drawbacks of various style decisions in a non-judgmental fashion, and be able to switch back and forth depending on the code base you're working in. It's a mistake to confuse style and convention with "not being real C". Different doesn't mean not real.
@at-fates-hands:

"You say it has 16GB and then once you turn it on and it says 32GB in the system screen, now people are pissed your OS and apps take up too much room."

That simply does not happen. The inverse, in which people expect to be able to store plenty of media and apps but can't, does. Most users won't even know that it's the OS that's taking up that much space, but they'll know to blame Microsoft.
But don't you have to actually win the lawsuit for this strategy to work?
As long as they don't keep records - the mixer knows everything. And I'm not aware of any running instances of a decentralized mixer like e.g. described here: http://blog.ezyang.com/2012/07/secure-multiparty-bitcoin-ano...
They could similarly just return it. False advertising cases usually focus on the fact that you can't return something with impunity.

Now, of course there is a gray area -- if you've had the device for a year, banged it up and only THEN noticed you have 16 GB, then yeah. You wouldn't be able to return it. But a grace period in which you can return stuff is normal in the USA.
Facebook to use your address to confirm ad-driven purchases.
Be careful with that one. I left a very beefy (32 cores, 64GB ram) CS department server unresponsive for several minutes doing that with the linux kernel.
Well off the top of my head at least two of the people on your list had earlier successes than the ones you listed.

Ev Williams did Twitter, but did Blogger before.
Elon was 28 with PayPal

Probably not the best examples you could have chosen. It is like saying Bill Gates wasn't a success until he was in his fifties because it wasn't until then that he started the Gates Foundation.
The 'Design Matters More' line gave me pause when reading this as well. Aside from being contrary to personal experience, it made me think of how SalesForce largely replicated Asana's design in Do.com.
lol, la gente q venden 4G no saben lo q es.

muy interesante, buen analisis :)
Enterprise needs to wake up as a matter of sustaining their advantage, otherwise a startup like Airbnb can eat them for lunch. With social media the market can shift dramatically towards any service that can deliver superior value to customers. So in my view Enterprises are driven much more by fear than any inherent need to serve better. Whatever the case may be, it does open up opportunities galore for astute startups, that have patience to deal with Enterprise quirks.
The new date picker certainly looks better than before, but I think the plus and minus buttons are a little confusing. Not sure what will happen when I click plus above November. I assume it will change to December because 11+1=12, but I could also understand why it might change to October (I expect a list of months to go from January at the top to December at the bottom. I would think clicking the button above the month would go up in that list, to October).

That minor point aside, great job!
I grew up with unfettered access to the Internet, (at least to the degree that 14.4kbps could be considered "unfettered") and look at me; I turned out fine... giggity.
off-topic: if you link to footnotes, provide a link back to the place I was reading.
Try connecting to those on port 25, see if any accept mail... they don't tend to.

That's not a test for validating an email host either - looking up MX records would be more appropriate here.
exactly. I think it is an common misconception that everybody has trouble learning new things as they grow older. This might be true for some. However, it seems that if you actually try and don't let the misconception trick you into thinking you can't keep learning, then you won't fall victim to it.
How did he anchor it to the tree with damaging the bark and therefor the tree?
Learning Objective-C with LLDB in Xcode
The cost of mobile clicks
Ah, I see, it's just your hardware.

That's unfortunate - but then again, that's what I love about Linux... it lets me salvage even old or low-quality hardware.
I can't agree more. In fact, they would rather just have whatever functionality you are selling them in whatever software they currently have.

Ideally, they want to use your product in their Salesforce/SAP. It might not sound pleasant but it's that kind of request that we consistently see coming from our larger customers.
A breakdown of how I was talked out of $100
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You rent a server in another country (such as Netherlands) that does the torrenting for you. You then SFTP to your seedbox and download your torrent files from there. All your ISP can see is that you are downloading a lot of bytes, not what the bytes actually are since it is over SFTP.
The appropriate "protection" for future customers is to publicly ridicule Microsoft for their bad marketing, and for those potential future customers to not become actual customers by not buying the device. It is not a lawsuit.
Relying on standards that new for something like email would be a mistake IMO. Ymmv.
Tyra Banks, Super Techie?
Not in any enterprise I've ever serviced.

Nor I. However, mobile is indeed changing they way IT thinks. I've recently attended both a large mobile conference (AppsWorld) and an SAP conference (SAPPHIRE/TechEd). Every person that is implementing mobile in the enterprise is saying the same thing - capturing the mobile experience is important. But, there are so very few organizations doing it right now.

At SAP SAPPHIRE/TechEd this year there was a massive (I mean took up a very substantial area of one of the entrances to a conference hall) that was dedicated entirely to UI/Design Thinking[1]. This has never even had a tiny booth dedicated to it.

That being said. 2013 is not the year. 2013 is the just the beginning. I suspect design will become more of the norm in 2014 and beyond. I also suspect as my generation becomes more and more influencers in enterprise technology we will see that design creep in. But until the dinosaurs hold the budgets, it ain't happening anytime soon.

[1]- http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/design_thinki...
If my salary depended on the Twitter API right now I'd be scared shitless.
What's in a Twinkie?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/05/what-s-in-a...
Does any website do that? Does the back button not work well enough?