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Any advice to a sw eng who can't remember/be expert on stuff
Hey guys!

I'll try to explain as clear as possible my situation. (and short)
I am not sure what to expect. Any advice, or maybe a similar story would be great.

problem:
1. No matter how I read/practice on a tech subject (PL, fw), after couple of months I forget
(Ex: I studied JS and then created several js apps (6-7) 4 months ago, now I don't remember anything.)
2. No matter how hard I study on something, I still can't get.
(Ex: DP)
(Ex: I am building web apps with rails for the last 2 years, and I can't tag myself as mid-rails eng. I still need to search API for even basic ActiveRecord queries or to define scope statements)

personal background:
1. I completed BS in CS 3 years ago.
2. I am building web apps since 2008. I never took a break. 4 full years.
3. I've worked on really big projects. (apps more than 3+ million user base or created several apps that utilizes ML algorithms)
4. I am 28, I don't see myself stupid but I started thinking my brain does not function as well as 2 years ago.
5. I try to follow new technologies, open source libraries, and news sites.(this is not my actual HN handler)
(Currently I use backbone, coffeescript, rails stack. But again if you ask me some basic thing in backbone or coffeescript, probably I can't answer.) I created 4 apps using this tech stack.

It's been a very long post, but any help really appreciated.
Thanks
Are you saying OCZ has a bad reputation? I haven't followed things closely, but I used a Vertex 2 and now use a Vertex 3 based on their good reviews at http://www.anandtech.com/tag/storage
>All programs should have a "pure" kernel with a single interface

Very interesting idea... sounds like something someone would design an operating system around, it would require some sort of highly optimized external call thing.

But I am not sure I get it. What would stop an upper layer bug from simply passing bad instructions to the kernel?
i just bought one nexus 4, 8 gb (without any hassels at all). that is almost 8 hrs after sales began.

so folks, its not yet sold out. you might wanna try to grab it again if you had failed to some while ago.
>because there's not enough investment in AAA games about something other than war, cowboys, football, cars. sorry, but it's true

Is that discrimination against women in gaming? It seems out of place.
It's a legit project.

You are correct that there's no test suite, unfortunately support for testing is still a way down the priority list for the meteor devs: https://trello.com/board/meteor-roadmap/508721606e02bb9d5700...

I think people have had some success rolling their own testing solutions for meteor projects, but it's all very ad-hoc at the moment, I guess this is the downside of working with a pre-1.0 framework.
Travel agents don't always have the best options. I traveled on 5 continents this year, taking 30 flights total. My total cost of flights was also about 7k, compared to the author's same cost for half the flights. I booked everything separately, using Kayak, Hipmunk, and local airline offices in Nepal, Fiji, and Jordan. If you research travel hacking and follow those tips, you can find great deals.

The main bonus for me was the freedom to fly where I chose, rather than where the airline offering the RTW ticket.
Not always; Phoronix, for example, has an ad provider which double-underlines some words in articles, with monetizing links.
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The best "native feeling" HTML5 app I've seen is hnmobile: http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/ ,which I use everyday and recommend to everyone who read HN on iPhone.

The author also went through a great details on how he built it: http://cheeaun.com/blog/2012/03/how-i-built-hacker-news-mobi...
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Ask HN: How much should I sell my Windows Store App for?
Since the Windows Store is in its infancy, I'm finding it hard to choose the right price point that people are willing to pay. Are Windows users more or less frugal with their money? I know the the vast majority of apps are free but they come with ads and since my app is a password manager I don't think I will get enough "eye" time to justify putting ads. I started off at $1.49 and had a few sales (1-4/day) then I pushed it up to $1.99 and I am seeing roughly the same number of sales. With such low volume, would it be wise to increase my price or should I just wait it out?

Link: http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/lockit/665aa3ab-159b-4bc9-b59c-af5f7f22e974
Mississippi County Jails Kids For School Dress Code Violations, Tardiness
I was in the market for a 3D printer a while back, but I was really put off by how low quality, amateur-esque the entry-level 3D printers were (Reprap and co) at the < $1000 price mark; while on the other hand, how freakishly expensive the professional 3D printers were ($15,000+). I was surprised at the lack of options in the middle. Replicator 2 seems to be a step in the right direction, but it's not quite there yet IMHO.

Does anyone have any recommendations in the $5k range? A larger chamber size is an absolute must.
Enterprise here who integrates with other enterprises. We have one windows 8 seat across 15350 unique endpoints and that was our test surface machine.
You're missing my point. Remember that my OP was that people do not understand why they vote. Or, to put it in terms of my most recent question, they do not know what the purpose of voting is. They just know that they're supposed to make an informed choice and this choice has some vague connection to current events and this is the extent of their civic duty.

You seem to believe that the purpose of voting for the POTUS is to elect the President.

This is wrong. The purpose of participating in the national election is not to "pick the best choice". It is to make a decision and to express an opinion.

The purpose of voting for the POTUS is to provide a signal to your electoral college delegates, and to provide a signal for the mood of the nation. In the case you describe, it's like submitting a minority opinion on the SCOTUS. The point is to be on record with your opinion, not to be the Important Guy Whose Vote Makes the Difference. It's to say, "Yes, we decided on Obama, but a huge portion of the country would have preferred Romney for one reason or another," or vice versa.

If your opinion happens to coincide with a majority as filtered through the electoral college, then your opinion happens to coincide with the result of an aggregate decision machine. You are not The Decider. There is no Decider. That is the point of a democracy: no single vote can, or should, ever count.
Why would someone get a linode when they can get a dedicated server for $15? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4838729
I do it primarily as a way to track my place in the text when I scroll down the page. Or because, forever multitasking and getting distracted, I need a way to remember where I was up to.
Nearly all monitors have a backlight brightness control.
If you'd even looked at the screenshot, you'd see it's an email. Moreso if you were to read the article. Of course it won't be on Google Play.
I'm a subscriber, and clicking works normally when I just checked. It used to create a lookup of some sort.
I remember something similar, though the real cause of my time on the computer ending was because I was on dialup and that would tie up the phone line. This was back when I was much younger and with my parents, but after my family moved all of our phones off the landline and to cellular, we ended up getting a lot more use out of the computer. After all, the computer only had entertainment purposes if you had a movie or a game, and all our games were the single player sort. So, with the advent of the Internet, there were things to do on the computer to pass the time, like browse webrings and forums or try and fail to learn Esperanto (and RPG Maker 95, which probably contributed a lot to my interest in game development).

Before all that, I spent a lot of time climbing trees and wanting to be an architect and writer (the latter of which I've been pursuing for a while now). My brother and I'd drag planks into trees and we'd build little things we called forts and make up our own currencies (using the tabs on soda cans, for example), we'd play with our family's chickens and cats, and we'd grouse about picking up fallen apples (because it was boring) and so on. Odd to think how little of any of that I'd get away with now -- now I'd suffer some odd looks from folks for climbing a tree that looked especially climbable. Really, the computer was just for Doom and Encarta and writing book reports. That's just rambling though and not all that interesting or indicative of any change other than growing up a bit.

Unfortunately, I was a child back then, so my memory of pre-Internet computer use is probably different than that of someone who was an adult the entire way through. Would be nice to see a bunch of people writing about it - not so much about how computers and the 'net changed things, but what they were like beforehand without concerning themselves too much with the difference between now and then.
Well actually the default is set by the drivers not the database. And many of the third parties have set the defaults to the safer setting for years now.

But hey don't let that get in the way of your irrational ranting.
Ok thanks for the information. A test suite should be part of the DNA of any framework in my opinion and the lack of prioritizarion shows the values of the meteor team don't really align with what I originally expected.
Ratchet.io works well for this. http://ratchet.io/
Am I the only one here who thinks that for personal use, owning a server in house is a better choice than using a hosted VPS or server?

It's quite easy to get a decent micro HP server (even with SSD storage) within $1000, which would cost $150.00 - $300.00 a month for a equivalent plan on Linode. Suppose you upgrade your server every two years, the monthly cost of the server is less than $50. You get dedicated CPU time and I/O, permissions to managing everything.

Internet bandwidth might be a problem. But let's put ourselves in the 2 or 3 years future. What if you already have Gigabit Internet like Google Fiber for $70/mo?

And you get other benefits for owning a server in your house. Since it's connected to your home LAN, it can be used to help build a smart home, control smart sensors/cameras, or serve as a media server.

Am I missing something here?
What set? It was 50 dollars for 2 forks, 2 spoons, and 1 knife. To get an actual flatware set would cost something like 500 dollars at those rates, which is really an absurd amount to spend on such trivial bullshit.
It's 4 CPU variations if you have purchasing agreements in place. If you're buying off the shelf from the vendors then yes it can vary much more. This is even evident in the desktop market. Compare the Dell business class to the Dell consumer class. The consumer class will change frequently, but in the business class you can buy 2 year old processors to match what you've got.
I've always wondered if the food industry needs a serious SV-style disruption, meat-industrial complex is what led to overweight/obese and people with unbalanced hormones (fyi, industrially-farmed poultry are injected with Estrogen for them to fatten)

With various negative aspects such as that, combined with negative ecological effects there exists a huge market ripe for disruption.
As a 40-year-old with two small kids, I understand about the video games, but only because I took a hiatus for a few years. I love playing Halo (I just ordered Halo 4), but not to play against teenagers on XBox Live. I like it for the solo campaign...so I can blast the shit out of aliens and have fun. Then, I get back to RealVille and take care of my kids. Also, having a few beers while playing is fun for me, but I completely understand your point of view. Maybe it's a midwest thing...eat cheese, drink beer, play games...have fun. When you get older you relish the free time to screw around and not have to be productive.
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Where does the "required" Mozilla/5.0 compatible fit into that structure?
Thanks, seeing how many awesome people there are in the Meteor community already that means a lot to me!
Because you can be a lot happier spending a lot less than 10 cents an hour, and not worrying about trivial bullshit like flatware.
Any timeline on that?
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If you have a trackpad, a triple tap can select a whole paragraph.

Unless you write one-sentence paragraphs, this turns out not to slow things down at all. (I read at a "normal" pace and sometimes do this.)
Try converting quick reference card into a deck for Anki. If an online quick reference is not available, the regular structure of language reference manuals and apis makes it straight-forward to create a card deck for the tool of your choice.
Ask HN: How to mine my inbox. 
I use gmail and over the years have accumulated a lot of mails. Some that I'd like to keep and some that I'd like to get rid off. The Issue is that I have about 5000 emails and going one by one is not an option. I would like to know if there are any tools that will allow me to mine my inbox orif there is a better way to deal with the problem of having a big inbox, because if the size of the inbox keeps growing it just becomes "noise" and from that point forward having or not having that data(email) is the same.
-_-

I can't tell if you're trolling or serious.

I've been flipping off people talking about node.js for the last year, and seeing this made me take a step back and go, woa, maybe there is actually something here worth paying attention to.

If you are serious, be more specific in your criticism please. (not restful? large js pages? so what? It's easy to install, templated, pretty, fast. The code seems readable and hackable. That's all the things (except perhaps fast) that's been missing from the sites the node.js people have been showing me for the last year).

This site looks great to me... it doesn't have any tests (as mentioned somewhere else), but hey...
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schraeds you are linkdead, for no good reason as far as i can tell from your history.
Don't feel bad, on my Nexus 4 I'm redirected to a mobile subdomain and 404'd.

But you probably mean something along the lines of:
"Increasingly, users are accessing the web from a mobile, therefore it's critical that your presence on the web is optimized for mobile devices. Studies have shown that 2/3rds of users will not return to a site that is not optimized for mobile."

That was floated next to a Flash video embed with no fallback. But here's the fallback on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja7abx3OPOQ It was easy to find once I opened the whole presentation in a desktop browser with Flash support, click-dragged back to the page, clicked the magnifying glass icon to spawn the popup, then the More Info tab, then the YouTube icon in the lower-left corner of the video to 'view on YouTube'.

I'd send you a link, but there isn't one. It's all one URL. And you're probably not part of the 1/3 that will return to a site that isn't optimized for mobile anyway.
I paid $15 for an iOS version (1Password Pro) so I'd imagine you can try at a higher price point. Worse case scenario, you can drop prices later. Much harder to keep increasing prices if there are a lot of users that take notice later. Try something like $4.99 and see how that does.

If traffic falls, but overall profit is up, thats still okay. You got to do a bit of testing to see what will work best.
This is one of those often upvoted middlebrow dismissal comments that pg has said worsens the experience on HN. If you are going to dismiss something, at least provide more substance.

The arguments you stated have more to do with the product of choice than the framework itself. True, real-time changing of things like story order probably doesn't make much sense because it could become terribly confusing when lots of people are using something like telesc.pe. However HN likes to upvote HN clones to the front page because they make for great examples to explore a framework. It's certainly quite a bit more interesting and demonstrative of a frameworks pros and cons than the simple ToDo apps used to showcase most frameworks.

Please try your dismissal again, but with more thought this time.
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see my other post
It's nice in Netbeans, because I can see which lines I've changed while I'm editing, and if I hover over the sidebar it will show me what I've changed or deleted. Probably they all do that, but Netbeans is the only IDE I bother with.

I won't say it's indispensable, but it is handy. I don't miss it outside of Netbeans though.
I find there are less awful developers over 40 than under 40. Eventually your reputation catches up with you and it is very difficult to hide decades of incompetence.
The crime wasn't releasing a half-baked maps application. The crime was removing the working one. To that extent, this buck stops at Cook's desk, IMO. Apple Maps was a strategic blunder, not a tactical one.

The correct thing to do would have been to renew the Google contract and release both apps, and let the users decide when Apple's new one was good enough.
It'd be nice to know what they're watching so you could your actual DVR with the twitter dvr
So you first argue that it won't get better with usage... But then admit that yes, it will get better because feedback gets taken into account.

Which is it?
Also if you raise the price to $4.99 consider doing some ads as you are hitting a price point where this activity can be ROI positive.
Interestingly, Rdio 2.0 is built with C# and MonoTouch, sharing significant amounts of code with the Android client. https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/273487637292130304
I've had 3 failures out of 8 HDDs and 0 out of 2 SSDs (Intel X25M and Samsung 830) in the same period.

At this point I would recommend buying SSDs that have proven track records; don't buy cheapest on the basis that any SSD is better than any HDD.
For anyone that wants more resources like this, I've found articles in Linode's library to be very helpful: http://library.linode.com/lamp-guides
I'm slightly concerned by this release. The mobile platform was the only one left where users could not block ads easily. Plus it has a great CTR.
Best comment of the whole damn thread.
Not only is Spotify ugly, it's nearly unusable in my opinion. Today I was trying to navigate to a friend's playlist and was unable to do so from the list of my Facebook friends. The web presence for the playlist had no titles, and the first time I tried to open it in the app it failed.

I did not like Rdio's re-design at first, but it has grown on me more than I thought it would.
There's what SNMP was built for, and then what it actually does.

I've been (un)fortunate enough to implement it more than once. Only a certain class of clients demand it because they already have built a big SNMP infrastructure.
1. Best doesn't always mean more expensive

2. That's not entirely true. Depending on the material and design some are very, very hard to bend

3. I have a t-shirt I bought in 2006 that is still going strong :)
I know I'll probably get down-voted - but I have to ask: when will people stop building apps/stuff around twitter and facebook...? It's useless (yes, I know - my opinion).

I can understand that it was fun for you to build, no offence - but I don't see the value in things that piggyback on those two services. There are so many real challenges out there...

There, I had to say it (not impressed).
Who is using plastic? Not spending obscene amounts of money on things does not mean buying disposable.
Yep, it focuses my eyes.

While pair programming, it tends to drive the other person nuts.
It's not an all-or-nothing choice, though. I've had an Xbox 360 for years, and when my kids were born/adopted, I barely touched it. I hate playing against the knobs on Xbox Live, so I just stick with the single player stuff, or find friends to explore maps and blow stuff up. Very immature, I know. But it's fun. Look at my post up above...My Xbox is an early generation and I still hardly play it because I have better things to do most of the time.

I'm not sure what preconceptions you have about "gamers" are, but from what I know, most gamers are in their 30's and have lives outside of video games.

I wouldn't call myself a "gamer", as per your definition, but I've loved playing video games since the early 80's, which might not register with your experience. I'm an ordinary guy with a beautiful wife and kids. Not sure what your beef is.
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I like the idea very much. In fact this could be extremely useful if you tweak it a little bit.

How about instead of waiting and controlling the time speed etc. the app itself keeps playing the tweets along with its duration from the last tweet: "after 2 hours", "after 4 days", "after few mins" etc.

That ways I am never waiting for something to appear instead am constantly engaged.
You can use the filter tool to sequentially use rules to apply labels to emails from certain senders. Having labels makes searching/sorting much easier.
However, a 128G boot drive for Windows is cramped without creative use of junctions - I've been there with 80G X25M, it's worth paying over the odds for the space.

Fiddling around too much with junctions can break some installers, for example, that expect the MoveFile() API to work for directories whose paths start with the same drive letter, or do weird things with NTFS hard links.
If you plan on traveling around the World for a year, I highly recommend couchsurfing, which Alex did not mention. You'll save a lot of money and get to know places a lot better through it. If you haven't tried it yet and want to know more about it, check out the recently released full length documentary One Couch at a Time

(disclaimer: my girlfriend made the documentary, but even if she wasn't my girlfriend, I would recommend it to others interested in traveling the world.)
1? 2? I'm pretty sure a Maps team does exist, otherwise yknow... We wouldn't have a product. Software doesn't magically appear out of thin air. And data is being updated, so they clearly have both a team and tools to do it.

3 -> It's licensed from TomTom. Why don't you see a point to licensing? That's by far the best way to get cutting edge data. Getting it yourself is going to take years.

4 -> Apple Maps is rumoured to be in the latest 10.9 builds.

5 -> Yeah, dearly needed.
I get your point.

As you said, this is for fun. It's certainly not a business or something I'm going to take much further, so the long-tem viability of Twitter's platform doesn't matter that much to me.

That said, it is where the people are, and I haven't found anything that let's me feel the pulse of the global online community as well. As I said, I think Twitter's a blast during a big live event, and that's why I built this.
Startup develops electric car with 150 miles of range for under $10,000
Cowbell.

And two votes for robots.
That sure looks better than a smartcar to me.

Is that an optical illusion - the rear wheel seems smaller than the front?
Thanks for the suggestion ppereira, I'll check that out. But the thing is I am ok with not remembering small things or api call, as I tried to give some examples, I am having bigger issues than that.
No - but I've never used a highlighter in meatspace either.
Vagabonding by Rolf Potts is a very good book for more information on world traveling on the cheap.

http://www.amazon.com/Vagabonding-Uncommon-Guide-Long-Term-T...
Rdio wins hands-down for social/sharing features. That's the thing I miss the most. On Spotify I'm pretty much solo.

Spotify's other killer feature is local sync on the laptop. I'm usually dependent on crappy hotel/cafe wifi and Rdio just chokes.
Yes, most certainly.