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I want to do less with my calendar. I want it to do more for me.

I want 4 lists. Day: The first shows today's agenda, and it's half-todo list. (yes I'm anti-todo list)

Week: The second list is this week's agenda, with repeating (daily) events consolidated. It covers from tomorrow to 8 days away.

Month: The third list is like the second list, but is for the upcoming month. Likewise, it would omit the 2nd list and cover from next week to 5 weeks from now.

Year: The 4th list would detail the remaining 11 months in the year. Each item is only on one list at a time.

Most importantly, any item can be hidden from any list, and it will come back into the next list. Got a dentist appointment in April but don't want to see it on your Year list? Hide it and you won't see it until March.

Another way to look at this is the "Diff" calendar -- you know your daily routine, this is just charting how these days must vary.
I don't, but I've always wished there were a way to bookmark position within a page.
Yes I do, and I really notice it when using O'Reilly's Safari bookshelf. Whenever you select text it pops up a window asking if you want to highlight or make a note, so irritating! If that mouse is in my hand I always select text that I am reading. I am not sure why. Perhaps it's just a reflex so I can keep track of where I am in the text. With so much noise on web pages, it must help. I'll have to test if I do this as often on other things. I know I have accidentally cut and pasted previous commands in a terminal and have been very upset with the consequences. I'm just sloppy with that mouse and middle button I guess. But those darn new line characters on a paste can be catastrophic.
Great, we have our first theoretician. Now we do need some sort of organizational structure for advocacy.
Against your anecdotal evidence I'll present a somewhat less anecdotal evidence in the fact that KDE was voted best desktop environment in the last annual LinuxQuestions members choice awards. Clearly people voting for it are the ones using it, don't you think?
Ask HN: Interning at startup that just lost investors
I'm a college student, and last March attended a recruiting session by someone who'd dropped out of my college (with a friend) to found on a startup. I seemed like a good fit, so I joined as a part-time developer, with the understanding that once they closed deals with investors they'd start paying me. As a gesture of good faith, they refurbished the cofounder's first-gen MBP and gave it to me.

They just called me to say there were "some changes to how the company was going to work" and scheduled a time to meet with me in person to go over it (this Thursday). However, I know that the investors pulled out (and they don't know I know).

So I suspect that when I meet with them, they're going to tell me that they won't be able to pay me for a while, and try to make me work for something else (equity? future profits?). I'm not sure what to think about this. I've already provided ~$1500 of free labor, and as a busy college student, my time is too valuable to keep doing that indefinitely--classes, side projects, on-campus job (since I need some money...) And they want me to work for the summer too, but it seems preferable to either find a guaranteed-money job with BigCorp (I've been offered a spot with IBM), or find a more stable startup situation (where I can either be a proper founder or proper employee, and not just get the worst of both worlds).

This is all complicated by them being dependent on me. In an investor meeting they said, "$TECHNICAL_COFOUNDER has done all that he knows how to, and now tsm is going to have to lead development since he's the only one here who knows how to solve the remaining problems."

So I'm asking for advice--both about what decision to make, and about how to guide my meeting on Thursday (what demands I should make). In short, my emotional side has romanticized the notion of startups and wants to stay; my logical side is pointing out that it's not a good time of life to take big risks with small chances of success. Thanks!
Do you really think these guys were the guys who decided to ditch Google Maps and then sell Apple Maps as better than Google?
Do you have any algorithms or tips for writing algorithms that try to simulate animalistic movement? I've been looking for something along those lines for a project I'm doing in my robotics class.
Yes, You Can Outrank Amazon.com
"Curious... Why are you selecting? Is it to assist in reading, or some other reason?"

Sometimes unconscious compulsion, otherwise to put together a quote in the context of an existing thread.

I immediately noticed this feature due to the high number of discards :)
I do it as a nervous habit.
Even if the data is provided by a third party and you have no control over it?
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Actually many who should have paid $39.99 didn't, and instead paid only $14.99. The reason is that the form which asks you about your supposedly "new" notebook purchased can be completed with fake info's and you would instantly get the discount code in your email. I know this because there were talks about it on many forums.
This has happened repeatedly with Google in the past- I think it was a Nexus phone back then, too. I've come to the very simple conclusion that they just don't care all that much about how the store performs under huge load. The phones will get sold one way or the other, and the real goal isn't to make money as a phone seller but to drive forward the state of mobile phones.
Is there a way to see the number of unique voters for the combined "yes" options? Otherwise this poll isn't particularly useful.
I do it in more or less the same way that I idly thumb the corner of a book I'm reading, or repeatedly open and close a pen while I'm reading code.

It's just something tactile to do while my attention is otherwise occupied.
I do this too sometimes. Sometimes I accidentally click a link and that is when I notice... otherwise it is mostly unconscious.
I usually don't need to unless the design makes it hard for me to keep my place.
If a month has 30 days then that's also 10% of the time period, or another way of saying it is that sales remained constant over that initial time frame.
I've watched people who do this (highlighting text and moving the cursor around while reading) and it bugs the heck out of me.

I wonder if there's some kind of app to be made for these people, so that text moves around or changes color when their eyes track toward the text. (This would be horrible, to my taste, but you never know)
Select to copy, of course.
You're in a mood. This thread finally break you?
As another habitual text selector in this impromptu support group, I'll vouch for the assertion that Chrome's text selection behavior is really, really strange. Especially bizarre is when it wraps the highlight around the entire width of the page when selecting in a column of text.
No contest for "Undo send"; but lets be honest; in almost all applications undoing is the most used feature.
I fail to see what's so difficult about simply deleting the irrelevant text in a long email.
'Pac-Man' in Saturn moon Tethys is a repeat performance
There's a new subreddit for this "Best" thing: http://www.reddit.com/r/buyitforlife
Only if the text is multiple paragraphs, otherwise it's too much of a hassle.
This looks great but how does it compare to FullCalendar? [1]

From what I can see there is zero documentation, an area which FullCalendar excels at.

It will be hard to use this plugin without any documentation, certainly in the areas of events, which data sources are supported, etc.

[1]: http://arshaw.com/fullcalendar/
I don't, and it bugs the hell out of me when I'm sat reading with someone else who does. Nothing more distracting than them going nuts with the mouse while I'm trying to read.

I get why people do it, but sheesh, take your hands off the mouse for a minute, it won't kill you!
Yep. We've got the generator. What's more important is fuel. Gasoline generators suck fuel, so we use them as necessary to recharge the UPSes and cool down the fridge/freezer. Not so good for keeping the phone lines running.

It helps that we have wood heat, can cook on propane, and the well (for 6 houses) has it's own generator.
Well, it has historic reasons - KDE was founded in Germany and many of the initial wave of developers were based there, and it's the same for Gnome and the US. Both were certainly international from the start and the bias on the developer side largely no longer persists (also due to the huge presence of South America and India in FOSS now), but for the first half-decade you were simply far more likely to run into KDE people at a European event and into Gnome people at a US-based event, and thus make connections and become involved. This then extended to things like the prominent distributions (SuSE and Mandrake: KDE-centric and from Germany and France; Red Hat: Gnome-based and from the US) and print mag coverage, when that still mattered. And of course Trolltech was a Norwegian company later bought by a certain Finnish phone maker.

And to become more markedly opinionated for a moment, it's also most likely why Gnome managed to catch on and get to a place where it could make some meaningful contributions to the space, despite always having run on arguably inferior technology: The US FOSS scene had a little bit more of an entrepreneurial spirit going (also due to the early decision for LGPL licensing - well, kdelibs was always LGPL as well, but Qt only went LGPL a few years ago, while GTK+ always was) and the US IT market is simply somewhat bigger as well. If KDE had put some more effort into growing US mindshare early on (like it has tried to in recent years by launching a second annual conference just for the US, Camp KDE) things might have gone differently.
Haha, yeah that was kind of a joke and it's why I put the word "cloud" in quotes :)

(However if I own a couple/few of these boxes at different sites and they all sync up to store things redundantly then the line is blurred just a bit. The Synology devices are certainly capable of that.)
Microsoft's traditional strength has been their ability to lock users into their ecosystem. Windows revenue has been important for them, but as long as Windows helps them secure stable/improving positions for their other products and services, they could profitably license Windows for $0.
"Memento mori"! I agree, "market thermodynamics" dictate eventually they will meet their doom, and at that time the perpetual doomsters will find themselves vindicated, like a stopped clock is vindicated twice a day. :)
I have on occasion, just when the text is one giant wall, I start having a hard time finding the next line without re-reading the line I just read. If I highlight the previous line I know not to read it.
No, but I do scroll the page up, so that the line I'm reading aligns with the top of the browser viewing area.

Some sites nowadays add a floating header to the top of the page that changes size as you scroll down which is super distracting when reading the way I do.
> this cheap offering is only available in their home country which is France.

not true. http://www.ovh.pl/serwery_dedykowane/kimsufi.xml https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml etc. They operate from France, but have offices in Poland and all over Europe. there are no admins in here though AFAIK, every support request is just forwarded to France.
Take it easy. Dustin holds a lot of credibility around here, and I'm curious as to the source of it. I have no presumption one way or the other, and it isn't out of line to ask what a highly-regarded designer has designed.
Cater to the gaming community, host gaming nights.

Partner with schools or professors to have students buy school texts only available at your store.

Reconfigure your space to include a living quarters for visiting lecturers or artists. Have them earn their keep by leading discussions or giving a reading.

Have a large used and new graphic novel section. Buy used graphic novels at 33% cost or 50% credit.

Organize your bookshelves using the Library of Congress Classification System.

Get a housecat, name it something amazingly cute, the tweet advertisement for sales from POV of the cat using funny catspeak.

Invest in an outside sitting area or patio style backyard.

Rent out half of your store space to the United States Post Office.

Good Luck!
When using a Chrome browser with adblock and flashblock and HTTPS, and JS disabled, sometimes text isn't where it was designed to be. Sometimes text covers images or runs into other text, and selecting is necessary to be able to read it.
An IDE that I use at my job does this trying to pull up variable declarations for whatever you've selected (even if its giant blocks of data). I know that feeling.
Just because he's young doesn't mean it's ageism.
I do it sometimes compulsively, but I think it started for a legitimate reason: clicking to make sure the text has focus. That way when I use up/down/PageUp/PageDown to scroll, the text actually scrolls. If there is a textbox that has focus, up or down jumps to that textbox instead which drives me bonkers.

Also, recent versions of Firefox have a bug where after you bookmark a page, if you've added a tag, the page loses focus and has to be clicked to re-focus (otherwise keyboard scrolling is broken). So far this has never bothered me quite enough to check if the bug was reported.

Edit: Since I cared enough to write about it here, I filed a bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=815812
We do. I can smell allowances and tax exemptions. Maybe even an annual fun run.

I don't much mind about the structure, but it'd be really nice if it all lined up perfectly straight.
The thing wrong with Emacs is that not enough people know Lisp / elisp / CL well enough to enhance Emacs and hence prefer to create new "non programmable editors" instead of enhancing Emacs : (

As a long time Emacs user this saddens me a lot.
The guy made extensive use of the internet to broadcast his views. Not once did he say 'I reject these accusations and seek a trial/political asylum in some other country.' If you spend all your time glorifying violence and martyrdom, then you can have no complaints when people take you at your word.

There are also legal arguments in favor of this position, but past experiences suggests I'll do a lot of typing and linking to no particular end, so I'll confine myself to quoting Justice Holmes: the constitution is not a suicide pact.
I don't think cash flow is Microsoft's overriding concern at the moment. They'll still get plenty of steady income from their corporate cash cows. Right now, I think Microsoft is more worried about the existential threat of a world where people are weaned off Windows. They want Windows 8 to be used in as many places as humanly possible. If they can maintain their ubiquity, their overall ecosystem is secure. They will gladly trade a little profit from the consumer OS market to stay entrenched.
Improving HTML5 canvas performance – never underestimate copy and paste
Although vim has almost completely sucked me in already, does this thing have support for 1) separate indentation settings for different file formats and 2) separate indentation settings for different "projects"?

I've been looking forever for a text editor that does this and surprisingly few do.
When I read the title of this post I thought "WHOA, other people do that too?!" and clicked through to take the poll. Your poll is going to have a heavy selection bias towards people who select text while reading. People who don't select text while reading will probably ignore this poll and go read an article on erlang best practices or Paul Graham's favorite color.
> > "IF YOU MUST MAKE STUDENTS TAKE EXAMS, STOP ASKING LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC SYNTATICAL QUESTIONS"

> I recall very little of this.

I recall quite a lot: every exam I took where I had to produce a program, minor syntax errors like forgetting a semicolon at the end of a line would cost me some points. I think this is an artefact from the old days of batch processing, when syntax errors where actually costly.
I used Glimmerblocker to nuke all Javascript from the Times because of this. What is it about newspaper websites that encourages what I can only assume are normally rational developers to misbehave so unbelievably badly?
This gets annoying with sites that have actions defined when you click on words, or bring up a popup window when you click, etc. :(
I do this.

I just attributed this to ADD. But I do like the contrast.
this is why I love the 3 finger drag in osx.
Furthermore, I have no dishwasher.
I'm talking about Techcrunch and Bloomberg's decisions to report this as news, and the actions of whoever conveyed the information from within Apple to reporters.
There are some liberals who like guns. And lakes. And lakes named after guns.
Restless fingers. The other people in my office must think that I'm playing games all day, considering that the uninterrupted rapid-fire stream of clicks I produce when my hand is on the mouse is indistinguishable from playing an FPS.
A report in Icarus suggests the effect is due to high-energy electrons bombarding the sides of the moons that face their direction of orbital travel.

It's so cool to see macroeffects of subatomic particles.
> Once you reach a certain age, if you haven't "made it," you aren't one of the smarter and much more capable people.

This is premised on the assumption that everyone was trying to "make it" at 22. Outside the little SV social network bubble, founders are generally older with a deep well of experience in a problem domain. I worked at two companies run by their original founders. The founders at both companies were in their late 30's or 40's when they started the companies. They had PhD's, years of experience in the field, numerous papers to their name, and extensive professional networks. They weren't trying to "make it" at 22--they were working in the industry building up a solid foundation for starting a business.
I thought it was just me. Really bugs my wife when she's trying to read something over my shoulder.
Hacker schemes that will fool even the most secure individuals
This worked for me on Chrome! It works!
What exactly is your point ?

The person who decided to ditch Google Maps is dead and the person who tried to sell Apple Maps as better than Google has already been fired.
>I wonder if there's some kind of app to be made for these people, so that text moves around or changes color when their eyes track toward the text.

I really don't think that would help. For me the highlighting is a lot like tracing along text with your finger as you read on a printed page; it gives my eye a visual cue where I'm trying to track.

The issue is that I can read text faster than my eyes can track without wandering slightly and losing my position in the text, so simply tracking where my eyes are looking wouldn't do anything to mitigate that. It'd just end up highlighting where my tracking gets off anyway.
Actually some workplaces do elect people, and they find equally baffling results that voting people in increases productivity and reduces conflict.

As for a more common example of voting with in a company, look at a board of directors.

But yes, in general voting is used to provide legitimacy and credibility.
I do not understand how the author's words relate to the topic.

Mobile first design is designing core functionality og websites for small screen, big target devices first and using techniques like progressive enhancement / responsive design to scale up for desktop experiences.

Mobile first already means web. Are they going from mobile first to desktop first?

Or do they mean mobile apps to web apps?

These terms have established meanings. By sticking to them we help simplify our discussions.
> I'm always weirded out by people who call-out
> their employer in a public space like that...

The egg is apparently on your face. codewright did not mention his/her employer, and with no personal details in the user profile, I'm curious how you would consider this 'calling out' one's employer.
People make fun of me for doing it, but I can't stop. It's the one thing that makes google reader hard to use, because I forget and clicking on a news story makes it jump to the top of the page (note to google reader devs - your thing is awesome, probably needs an update, but GOD DAMN I HATE THE CLICK JUMP FUNCTION)
I am not making any accusations against anyone - it is obvious that Paul Graham has an age bias - he says so all over the place, but there is no law against having a bias. Age discrimination is almost impossible to prove, but if it is being used in the decisions of who gets into Y-Combinator someone should look into it.
Yes, many times i seek more about a word or expression. Or to translate.
Why is everyone telling me how I should live and what I should buy or not buy in order to maximize my happiness?
Please include a link to your main site from your blog, for your readers' sake.
Well, it's a nervous habit, so we'd just have to replace it with a different habit. I would probably bite my nails or scratch at invisible zits, or something equally horrible. So it's nice to have the trackpad to contain your nervous twitching.
ironically i chose very high example numbers to avoid a bicycle shed debate as to what required numbers are.
He doesn't use the phrase, but this is basically talking about taboo trade-offs and value conflicts - and what really strikes me is that this isn't problem, rather, these technologies make it so we can no longer ignore the questions that value conflicts pose.

That is, we've already recognized the question of "would you kill one to kill ten?", we haven't yet needed an explicit answer or decision process.

(Well, that's not quite true. The Triage system for medical care during disasters, for instance, but that's not everyday everywhere like driving is)
The name's good, but maybe it's not the best URL-wise... pistolake or pistollake?

Wish you the best anyway :)
Nice to know im not alone in the world about this
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Heh, he describes this long grueling conversion funnel, with bizarre steps like creating a group with no one in it. Their UI shouldn't even allow that. Reminds me of the founder of Path speaking at a recent conference. He said they were coming from the web and they had all these pre-conceived notions about how to interact with their users. When a user posts a photo on the web there's a whole process of getting it from their desktop or wherever, tagging where it was, tagging their friends, etc.. He said with Path they had to throw all that out because mobile users don't want that. They want a single push button remote control for their lives on their phones, and you don't put complex steps in that.

Another kind of strange comment was about how ad/virtual goods companies make most of their money from poorer, less informed clients. That's simply not true. Often half or more of the profit is from the whales in freemium games and a lot of stuff is put into the game just to support these whales. In one game with virtual goods that I write, I make a heck of a lot more money from the diehard fans that buy multiple $5 coin packs compared to the free users who slog it out earning those coins through play, or the cheap tourist who just uses the starting coins or maybe buys once and never again to try out playing with full bonuses for a bit.
I totally agree. Not only does it disrupt bindings and make pages slow to load, but at least once a day Chrome now freezes when I do a Google search - the results page loads, but I can't click on anything and if I scroll down the bottom of the page hasn't been rendered at all. Nothing for it but to reboot Chrome 3 times (it dies silently the first two).

I still love Google overall (so yay on mailing big files and yay on Gmail generally), but the endless feature creep is a weakness, not a strength.
It's one of the reasons I hate surfing snoops. I'd spend a lot more time there if I could highlight when I'm reading.