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So I got a set of these, they are pretty easy to hack as indicated in the article. Which is nice, I've got a Zigbee development board from Atmel that I'm planning on using to see if I can talk to the bulbs directly.

So interestingly they are 8.5W and about 600 lumens. I pulled out a compact florescent which was 23W and 1200 lumens, So in theory I could use a '2:1' bulb socket and get my 1200 Lumens with less power, or make up a 3:1 fixture and get 1800 lumens for the same amount of power. The point I'm trying to make here is that you don't necessarily give up light brightness if you can accommodate additional bulbs.

It is pretty awesome to be able to 'set the mood' although mostly I'm using them in 'reading' mode (warm white). Something the app didn't provide was 'set color based on tungsten temp' feature, that would be nice. You can sort of simulate it by using the 'set by camera' feature and put the kind of light you want shining on a neutral grey test card then select that 'color' but it isn't precise.
In initial days start as a solo entrepreneur that way it gives you freedom to work, better cash flow and it let you judge your dedication towards your venture.
Looks very nice, but I have a feeling that it's like iOS Storyboards: Great for simple demo apps, but very painful when you have slightly more complex needs.

For example I don't know how it can handle the following (kinda conventional for a web app) situation: Multiple users, some are admins and some are regular users, with some shared "data" (like, an item for sale) between the two. Moderators can add/remove/edit items and edit/remove users, users can browse/buy items, etc. - I think if you're building an app like this, you really have to roll your own CRUDful server (with ruby or whatever)...

Oh, and BTW, RestKit[1] is probably much more mature and feature-rich than AFIncrementalStore.

[1]: http://restkit.org
Literally every post in this blog is dosed with high-test crazy. From the beginning:

* Jeff however, I truly believe, thinks that I sent the photos to his wife. If I had done so, then I would deserve whatever wrath he chose to mete out. But seriously, it’s not my style. And if his mistaken suspicion is not the reason for his bulldog approach to sniffing out my life then I can’t even guess at what twisted motives move this man.

* Wired asked him to pose shirtless with a shotgun. This apart from all the other shirtless photos of him, and him with young coeds; did Wired stage those? Did Wired also stage McAfee playing Russian Roulette with a loaded trick revolver in front of Josh Davis?

* I laid down the pistol that I keep for protection and, contrary to Josh Davis’ assertion that I said “Motherfuckers”, said nothing and went back inside. I woke Amy, the 17 year old with whom I was living, and calmly told her to get dressed – that the GSU was invading the property.

* The entire "Samantha" post, which reads just like the "secret diary of John McAfee" from Gizmodo, which in turn consists of profiles of the various young Belizeans McAfee has slept with, followed by a few sentences about the paramilitary groups seeking to kill him. (My favorite part of all these bits of writing, including the "Samantha" piece, are the photos, which make it seem like the most important thing McAfee has to convince us of is that these young women are real --- like that makes him seem saner)

* First there was an attempt to charge me with running an antibiotics laboratory without a license. In Belize a special government permit is required to research antibiotics – a law which is common in Third World countries. To date, no such permits have ever been issued. I suspect the large drug conglomerates have much to do with these widespread laws, or perhaps it’s a viewpoint motivated by my latent paranoia. In any case, I didn’t have such a permit. Neither was I researching or producing antibiotics. Antibiotics are taken systemically. I was working on a topical antibacterial spray. It could in no way be classified as an antibiotic. (Here it helps to note that McAfee's original research scientist partner in the antibiotic effort had to flee Belize in fear of McAfee)

* The "Punishment of the Innocent" post where careful mention is made of which people do not drink or do drugs.

* The entire "Watchfulness" post, which posits a shoe-polish-painted John McAfee watching the Belizean paramilitary GSU police digging up the corpses of his dogs, removing their heads, and leaving the bodies. The dogs had been dead too long for an effective autopsy, considering it would be performed in a Third World country with limited access to laboratory resources. What was this all about? Well, John, isn't it clear? ZOMBIE DOGS.
The little guy has only have one, or at most, a handful of patents, while the big guy has thousands, along with a large legal department that works 24/7 on patent lawsuits.

The only people that really benefit from patents are lawyers, and trolls (who are all lawyers).
I can understand this being a priority on routes that take longer than 10 hours. But, whats wrong with working offline, or reading during that time? Its not like you're going to be able to pull down large amounts of data, or view realtime video.
> He was not accused of a crime! The police wanted to question him as a "person of interest" - big difference!

Agreed. However, running from the law and how he's been acting is not in accordance with someone who's innocent - no?
How many patents make a "patent war"?
I think phased arrays might be used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array
I know people who do both, but I do neither. If a code is written for an engagement I'm brought in for, either I write it or a client gets it written by the engineering team. (I work for software companies.)
Here it's worth noting that McAfee contests this explanation. There is some other, more sinister reason they've taken the heads of his dogs. I think we all know what it is.
Hollywood and movies licensing isn't suitable for competitive businesses. One site can do it (netflix) but once more than one tries it everyone will lose. The source of the problem is that Hollywood itself is a monopoly, it gouges so much from the distributors like Netflix/Amazon that any attempt to divide subscribers to their services between each other will end up killing both parties.

Same thing happening with Spotify and Rdio.
His criticism seems reasonable.

However, I would like to see this combined with a discussion of how to achieve something better (despite the post's title, it is just a short discussion of some icon's problems sans any discussion of what to do about this). As a non-designer occasionally having to pick or create icons, I find extremely hard to find any symbol that effectively symbolizes the action/object I want it to. And drawing such a thing in limited space is obviously a problem too. How do you that and avoid problems of uneven abstraction level, uneven stroke level and so-forth. I've seen icon sets with very even stroke level but which had the even more deadly problem that you couldn't tell what a substantial portion of the icons were. That's much worse than uneven design in the end, I'd say.
Really depends on who your audience is. If the Techcrunch readership isn't your audience, those conversion rates aren't necessarily indicative of anything.
Interesting that you bring this up, as I was just reading patio11's article and thinking the same thing. When I was 18 I pivoted my business (freelancing, design work mostly plus webdev) to 'consulting' after discovering that my value wasn't in being on someone's hourly payroll, but rather providing ideas and solutions that were worth much more in the long run. I'm 20 now, and after a spell of no work (while in school, which I am no longer) I've been kicking things back into gear by trying to expand further into developer circles. I've spent the last week in my own Cocoa/iOS bootcamp while managing any current client work I have which I no longer bill by the hour. I'm only mentioning all of this here because I had the same experience while living in Japan, with a few optimistic exceptions– my fiancées parents. They and and a few other people I've met actually seemed very accepting of how I've done things so far, despite being quite risky. We're hoping to move back to Yokohama semi-permanently in the next couple years, and one of our primary goals is to bring more of that mentality back to the people who can do something with it, since even Japan's most 'creative' fields appear sorely lacking.
Parse is growing and adding new features really fast, it's also dead simple to use, I love it, too bad they are not reliable, they need to improve their stability and offer better uptime.
I'm sure the reasoning is that the vagueness gets people talkin'.
> I thought that 'diversity' means we give everyone equal opportunities and treat them the same way.

No, that's survival of the fittest. Giving everyone equal opportunity and being blind to everything else is how nature does it. It's called evolution.

"Diversity" is a code word for increasing the number of participants over what natural forces would allow for, if the best and the brightest were to be the only selection criterion.

Having said that, there is a point to diversity -- it hopes to address prejudicial forces that prevent everyone from having an equal opportunity to show what they're made of.

But "diversity" means exactly the opposite of what you seem to think. The point of diversity is to maximize variety, not competence. But it can often lead to a good outcome.
m00tler did nothing wrong.
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I couldn't tell by the article whether or not the stadium was occupied at the time. The stadium may have provided a target that would help to lower support for the war without actually killing people. Obviously any move designed to crush morale isn't going to be "nice", but at least it's better than choosing targets for maximum loss of life.
Just out of curiosity, are you offering to set up online stores using Magento or to convert a businesses established online store to Magento? Or are you doing something completely different? Basically, I guess what I am trying to ask is how do you market your Magento skills to make a profit?
Was this a particularly "niche-y" software that you had (perhaps unknowingly?) positioned yourselves as the leaders?

Presumably it wasn't The Next Big To-Do App but something that gave quite a bit of value.
Good to see I wasn't the only one to find the icons on iOS 6 share button atrocious.
While I ultimately side with Avdi and co, I think the whole thing wound up coming across as a bit self-righteous ... unfortunately.

Dealing with something like this requires a lot more tact than it seems was brought to bear, exactly because it is such an explosive issue. Its very difficult to be on the receiving end of something like that and not feel very personally attacked, no matter how logical the arguments ... the air of negativity surrounding something they worked so hard to bring to fruition would be too much to take. So I do empathize with BritRuby on some level.

I think in the future, it might not be a bad idea to try to try to handle something like that a little more privately and only move to twitter when it is clear there is a concerted effort to exclude people.

This 'public shaming' ideal that the rise twitter seems to have encouraged, just seems to be a little lazy (it doesn't require a lot of thought to be snarky) and counter productive in most situations, as it automatically puts the target on the defensive.
You know what... get over it. You're just showing your age by not being able to figure out how the new Windows works. It may have been hip and cool to yell about how hard to use the new Win8 was a month ago but now you just sound like my grandmother.

No multiple windows on your screen? You're kidding, right?
There is a new "style" of program. It's called the app. It does not belong on your desktop. If you're using an "app", you're doing it wrong. Use desktop programs, ignore the start menu except for program look-ups and carry on as normal. There is no UI difference in Win8 for a desktop user other than the start menu which can be primarily ignored.

Underlying performance improvements make up for the tiny bit of hassle anyway.
We went with gyp because we wanted to natively support MSVC and XCode projects as well as standard GNU make environments. Our production build system actually has simple text metadata files that live along-side the code and it generates all the required files as well. We felt that it easier to provide a gyp based system instead of also open-sourcing the entire Perl-based build system which was tied to our custom data format and not generally useful to anyone else. We generate the gyp input files from the metadata on our end and then anyone using the open-source project can use gyp to do whatever they need.

If we get to the point where OS distros want to package the libs, we may opt to generate autotools files, but that was too much work to be a roadblock from open-sourcing the lib.
If it's incorrect it's certainly misleading. But it's not incorrect. It may be misleading.

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

There are clearly different laws that apply to different religious groups when it comes to polygamy and other, as you say, family or civil laws.

I wasn't trying to say that the entire legal system in India is bifurcated (multifurcated? =P) along religious lines. I was just pointing out that while the American legal system attempts to exclude religion from the law (to varying degrees of success), Indian tradition includes laws which take into account various religious traditions and customs.

It's just a different way of treating the issue of freedom of religion in the legal system.
I use an adblocker at home but not at work. Honestly, for most of the sites I visit, there isn't much of a difference (anymore). Websites have realized that having fewer high-quality ads is better than having a massive number of crap ads.
That is assuming the user is familiar with both the application and the skeuomorph you're using.

For example: My android phone has a loupe icon in the corner of the screen. It's arguably an universally well known skeuomorph. And yet, what does it do? Zoom? Search? Search what? My apps? The web?
The whole point of the pictogram ("icon") is to communicate what the label would, but more succinctly.
COBRA coverage ends after 18 months, which makes it risky even when it's cheaper -- if you come down with a chronic illness (cancer, diabetes) in the meantime it will be much harder to find follow on coverage because now you have a precondition.

Or at least that's my understanding from my CPA who was trying to talk me out of using COBRA coverage. That conversation was before AHCA ("Obamacare") passed.

If the ban on precondition screening starts in 2014, perhaps it's safe to start COBRA this coming June.
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So the work to launch a new service is obviously quite a bit less than what it takes to offer a new product, but I'm curious if HN thinks there's a market for this sort of thing or not?

I'm debating wether we need to target the education aspects of it more than the end product. This seems like a great service, but I'm not sure its marketed in the right manner.

Is there a better way to market this that might hit software team leads a little better? Anything that might be a turn-off to them in it?
this is funny, Christopher Poole is wasting his time.... and wasting the time of the guys at moot Inc
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As a brown man who has had to deal with racism at various times in my life, I find this whole affair terribly condescending.

If I want to speak at a ruby conference, I don't need to see other brown people there to 'motivate' me to do so. I especially don't need to see white people flagellate themselves publicly in my defence either. If the goal is to have a mixed colour-palette at the conference, change the fucking wallpaper.

> Given that we have never experienced that life, we probably shouldn't tell minorities how they should feel, and what they should be afraid of

And yet, here we are. This whole issue is telling me that I should feel discriminated against and underrepresented in the UK ruby community[1]. I didn't feel any of these things before, but a bunch of white people on the internet are pretty sure I should be feeling this way.

Manufactured diversity of the sort people are advocating here is unnecessary at best. I don't know where the desire for it comes from, but if I had to guess, I'd put forward that it's based on middle-class white peoples collective guilt for pre 21st century racism. The reducto-ad-absurdum against manufactured diversity is that I don't see anyone arguing that transgenders, veterans, BNP members or left-handed people are underrepresented in the UK ruby community.

[1] Go to an LRUG meetup and I'll think you'll find that WASPs are the only group that are underrepresented in terms of the UK population as a whole.
He has already written the startup FAQ. It has one question :)
And there goes my dream for a Futurama style Tube Transport System.
Tilting at windmills, don quixote?
>Essentially all of the major innovation on the hardware side is done and the software side will be where people choose their phone/tablet.

>I submit that Apple needs to drop the commission rate for apps sales from 30% to some value approaching zero. This will starve Android/Win8/BB of developer mind share.

Main source of Google's revenue is advertisement, main source of Apple's revenue is hardware sales. If both hardware sales and marketplace commissions will be lowered then it would be improvement rather for Google than Apple.
Are you sure he specifically said it wouldn't require any sort of tube? I was under the impression that Elon's Hyperloop would be a derivative of the concept of Evacuated Tube Transport - a capsule containing passengers launched inside a tube under vacuum (eliminating air resistance) and levitated using some sort of MagLev (eliminating rolling resistance).

The concept isn't entirely new but having someone with Musk's credibility and resources as a proponent may be the catalyst required to make it happen.

I distinctly recall seeing some PR material circling the internets a few months back from a consortium known as ET3.com The group claims to have been working on a similar project for the past decade.
I doubt it very much. It is sometimes difficult to explain something you spend all your time thinking about to a third party- because you rarely have to ask yourself "what is this in ten words or less", you're not well practised at it.
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The sense I get is more or less that they're providing push/storage capabilities similar to what Apple provides via iCloud. The critical differences are that:

- It's cross-platform. You can use it for Android / Windows / Linux / web apps, not just iOS and OS X apps.

- It doesn't have some of the restrictions that iCloud does (e.g, App Store distribution for Mac OS X apps).

They also add some extra functionality on top of built-in OS functionality -- for instance, they've got some utilities for simplifying in-app purchases on iOS / OS X.
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I started freelancing out of college. Took a job, raised my prices, took a job, raised prices, etc. until I felt friction in the market.

Then, I got hired by one of my clients and asked to find someone to fill my former shoes as a freelancer.

I was charging $90 an hour. They were relying on firms like the Creative Group who have the ability to charge 100% markup on the people they hire out. As a result, I realized the people I was competing with at that rate could barely tie their own shoes.

I decided in that moment that I was pricing myself into the wrong league and need to raise my prices considerably if I ever get back into freelancing. Thanks to this post, I'll be billing by the week. =)

On a related note, there's room for massive disruption in the contract labor space. It's not hard to come up with a service that provides a lot more value within the current economics of that market. I'm not sure contract labor is a business I'm passionate enough about to start, but if anyone wants that have a chat about it, let me know.
I'm the same, I just have the same playlist on repeat for months, thanks for the link to the book!
Well, by definition projectile used in any cannon will crash, so that's not it :)
In the best of all possible worlds, icons don't need labeling. In the real world, a large portion do. Which brings-up the question of "why do we need icons at all?". And one could argue that often we don't.

For all its flaws, Microsoft Metro has the merit of realizing that icons often don't really have the communicativeness that many designers imagine. Sometimes a word is worth a dozen very sketchy pictures too, or at least is more specific than any given picture.
Employee turnover is very low compared to the US. There is absolutely a feeling of safety in your employment, which is just one of the reasons why suicides spike in the spring at the end of the fiscal year. Pay grade generally scales with years spent at the company, so there is little chance or incentive for younger employees to rise too efficiently.
Five second favicon creator for the initial phases of app development
To be sure, there has been marginal investment over the years in maintaining absolute backward compatibility through the zSeries/zOS.
Two additional tips:
1) use a grid to keep proportions honest.
2) read and follow these two guides if you target apple platforms.

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/ipad/#documentation/u...

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/ipad/#documentation/u...
>Your figures are absurd FUD. Space travel is nowhere near that expensive.

This is what I hate about space enthusiasts. You do a back-of-the-envelop calculation ignoring all the political wrangling, the on-again, off-again political support, the inevitable development setbacks, etc. In other words, you ignore the cost drivers of every single other space program in history and come up with a number that's an order of magnitude (at least) too low. If you actually got political approval for such a thing taxpayers would (justly) feel hoodwinked as program costs spiral upwards. It would be lucky to survive to completion.

Based on other big government projects (like the F-22, for instance), the $1T figure is probably a little on the low side. The idea you could send people to Mars and bring them back for $50Bn, less than it costs to build a HSR line from LA to San Francisco, is sheer stupidity.
Massachusetts has the "Massachusetts Health Connector" for MA residents which lets you choose from a large number of providers and dozens of plans: https://www.mahealthconnector.org/portal/site/connector

I wouldn't of struck out on my own if it didn't exist.
Well I'm out of college since 2 months ago. Going from there :)

I'm at the point where I'm feeling the first friction in the market; still figuring out what type of lube it needs.

(big part of the problem might be the market itself, I'm focusing on working with startups)
You are aware that patio11 established his reputation while living in Ogaki, Gifu, Japan? Which is a small, centrally located city in Japan, without a significant tech presence that I am aware of.

OK, it isn't a third world country. And Patrick is an American. But still, with the Internet you don't have to physically live in a well-connected place to make connections.
I don't really get his point #2 "A giant touchpad makes the keyboard area too large"

Isn't the distance the screen is away pretty much dependent on the height of the screen? I know I don't see many laptops that the base is larger than the screen. Occasionally the back sticks out a bit for a larger battery but I've never seen a laptop where the keyboard/trackpad were not completely covered by the screen when closed.