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As a loud typer myself, please let them know. I'm usually wearing my headphones and have no idea how loud my keyboard sounds are - and if I'm in a bad mood, it tends to get louder, without me being consciously aware of it. I wouldn't be offended if someone pointed out how much noise I'm generating, and I doubt they would be, either.

This would work especially well if your boss is willing to spring for quiet keyboards for them, and if they're willing to use 'em.
I agree, I've been reading NYT online for years and never seen an animated gif illustration before. I quite like it.
startcom (startssl.com) offers unlimited multi-domain and wild card certificates for users who have verified their identity.

verifying your identity is a once yearly cost of $60

https://startssl.com/?app=39

no more excuses :)
DON'T DO IT!

I lost $70 trying to re-acquire jseliger.com after a screwup that was 80% my fault and 20% Wordpress's fault. At some point I'll write a blog post about the experience, but the big, important takeaway is that GoDaddy itself or a subsidiary of it may be warehousing the domain, or unwilling to sell it. (They've actually been caught doing this: http://techcrunch.com/2008/12/03/godaddy-uses-standard-tacti...).

In any event, when I was panicked I actually paid the $70, only to realize that "Domainsbyproxy" was listed as the owner—which GoDaddy owns!

When I did more research and realized the mistake I'd made, I disputed the charge. I got the $70 back but will never get back a) my dignity or b) the domain name.
What does that have to do with anything? By the way, 37Signals is an LLC.
I concur. It's both beautiful and understated—I appreciate the visual acuity, but I am more impressed with the fact that NYT, of all, is finally growing past the era of crying "we're interactive!!!" out loud and starting to make good, subtle and tasteful use of unique properties of the Web. This is elegant.
I used to love the quiet car. I appreciated the serenity and the opportunity to listen to just the noise of the train. But the hostile shushing (2-3 times near me per trip, usually) started to bother me more than the transgressions. I began to worry constantly, checking and re-checking to make sure I had my phone on silent mode. Now I sit one car back and relax. The quiet car is good for people who can deal with it, and that's fine with me.
It would be great to be able to identify the features necessary for successful entrepreneurship. However, defining "tenacity" and "scrappiness" (and other latent variables) in a binary fashion acceptable to a bureaucrat are difficult. In its absence, use something like the YC approach (interview by experts) to determine the success of an idea? If 1 out of every 100 people succeed, you have 1000 jobs for U.S. citizens.
If anything, Kim is certainly brilliant at PR. With such a grandiose promise, he will gain wider support for his cause within the general population which will in turn cause more politicians to side with him. It doesn't really matter if he can pull it off or not. If he doesn't pull it off, he can always blame the FBI/MPAA for not giving him enough money (he likely won't get any at all). People will now hate the FBI/MPAA even more as they are "preventing" them from having free Internet, getting him even more popular support despite failing to deliver on his promise. Brilliant!
Jacques, sorry about the claims made by OP. In India, if you are a white collar worker and live in a city there is little chance you would ever encounter police brutality. Even better if you have the money to pay off the right people. The result is that the generation brought up in such an environment does not even realise that there is a world outside that is very harsh. The OP would have never seen the world outside his shell.

It's a good thing you engaged a lawyer and quickly brought the judiciary into the loop. Not because you'll get instant justice but it will bring everything under scrutiny. The victim's enemies would now be deterred from taking extreme measures.

(A personal experience - We almost became a victim of a police officer trying to take over our hard earned property by hook or crook. It's because of my dad's presence of mind that we came out of it relatively unscathed (we still went through a lot). He engaged a lawyer, escalated it to his superiors and filed a petition with the human rights commission too. All happened so fast that the officer had to stop furthering his plan. It still just bought us enough time to sell the property and get out of it. But at least, the alternatives would have been much worse.)
As a loud typer, I appreciate the reminder that my typing can be annoying to people. I don't know what it is exactly, but I can't seem to get quiet. I've never even used a typewriter! I think it's because I don't type with the traditional method since I self-learned before I could be taught... My method uses fewer fingers which may force them to move faster and thus hit harder, on average.

I'm sorry, from those of us who type loud, to all of you.
I read it more as "Apple has an opportunity to do it better". He points out 2 areas of weakness that Apple still needs to overcome in order to do it better- usability of multitasking (Windows does it with Snap), and cloud syncing (Apple's iCloud offering leaves something to be desired). Both seem me like relevant things to point out.
Why does the company even need to be registered in the USA?
> Ironic, in that what he was trying to communicate was some concepts regarding recognizing the moral reality of those around him, when, in fact, he was one of those clueless types who likely hadn't considered the possibility that his whacking-away at his keyboard was really annoying others.

I think that was his point.
EB-5 also allows for $500,000 investment instead of $1 million, if the business being funded is in a high unemployment area.
Glad to see the legalities were taken care of. =)
> I can filter out 10% of the noise at home, because if my wife is talking or our cats are meowing, it's almost certainly directed at me.

IMO the only advantage of working from home is that you can control all those free variables that make you distracted: E.g. Get a quiet study where you tell your wife, cat(s) etc that you cannot/will not be distracted during work hours. Doing that at work can be tried but depending on the work place, may not be kosher.

I personally prefer working in the library. I have been most productive doing that back in school and sorely miss it.
Nintendo's WiiU "hacked" day one
Apparently every console has access to the admin interface of the online component. One user accessed it by mistake.
It's one reason I'm a big fan of the current gen Apple keyboard, it's very quiet. Keyboards from PC manufacturers tend to be loud.
What's more frightening is that is has happened gradually, and very few people make your fundamental observation.
The System 360 was basically the first computer to implement a concept of software and hardware compatibility. It was completely spec-driven, which allowed hardware and software to be created and sold by third-parties.

You're right that IBM was bitten by not taking the PC revolution seriously, but even so they never had pure MCA product line at any point, so their attempt to (re-) corner a segment was somewhat half-hearted. They did license MCA to third-parties, though, which is something you didn't see in the pre-System360 era. You could get a Hayes modem in either ISA or MCA (and later PCI) versions. They cost a bit more, but depending on who you talk to it was indeed a better performer, the Betamax to PCI's VHS.
I'm not entirely sure what you're asking for (obviously I have no new evidence of ancient history), but I'm generally referring to this type of thing: http://www.birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/
I'm with you. But my Bose headphones cancel best the kind of sound that is easily ignored. Typing and talking go right through and even become more prominent against the quieter background. I found that full isolation can only be achieved by playing some music, which is better but still not ideal.

Anyone starting a Kickstart project for a better system can have my money.
I would happily re-mortgage my house to afford surgery which would leave me with a brain that works as you describe.
I think this being loud is particularly ingrained on the US culture. I have to say, tourists from the US are notably loud on Argentina. We have a large amount of tourists on Buenos Aires, but it's always the US accent you can hear all the way across a crowded train wagon or room. I can't imagine why that is.
Totally agree about the slurping...but it should be noted that this is also a cultural phenomenon. In some cultures, it's a sign of appreciation for the food. Not slurping means you don't like your food and it's disrespectful.

That said, holy hell I can't stand the sound. Nothing will make me flee a place faster than listening to someone slurp their food as they shovel it into their gaping maw.
Two ways to answer this question. The practical answer is: $5MM isn't a lot of money to a VC firm. They have hundreds of millions or billions of dollars to invest. Ryan Carson has a strong reputation in the tech community and he's an accomplished guy. $5MM is nothing compared to the potential rewards from a working relationship with him. Treehouse is a good product and it definitely has value, but the potential that he could somehow lead them to the next facebook is also very appealing. Part of being a VC is knowing how to use money to open doors.

To answer your queston about the mechanics of fundraising: They aren't just throwing their money away. They've bought themselves a share of the intellectual property and technical team that Treehouse builds. Carson could change his mind and decide to sell to an acquirer, or grow the business over decades into a public company. Even though he's blogging about not wanting an exit now, a lot can happen.

Unfortunately, VCs won't extend this kind of a deal to just anyone. The rules are different for founders who are already well known. Everyone else had better have a sharp business plan.
I might be oversimplifying it, but the GIF might have something to do with this: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/11/us-word-of-the-ye...
I guess I don't see why a conference like this even exists in 2013 anyway. If you're not trying to educate someone about some product, all these events do is serve to stroke the egos of everyone involved (see SXSWi). You don't really learn much, you pretty much network with people you already know.

Just ditch this ridiculous format and the pretensions to academia or "professional" events altogether. Have a star keynote for each day, a planned, fun social "mixer", a hackathon, and space for organic groups to get together and for attendees to find them without much friction.

All of this nonsense about planning for diversity is irrelevant when the activity is driven by the community and not community "leaders" (unless of course the community is actually racist which I seriously doubt in this case and which in any case disappears in the sunlight of a public event anyway).
You don't have to have one IP per domain for SSL, I happily put multiple sites on the same IP. nginx supports it very easily.
Even buying champions in LoL (you can buy skins too) doesn't affect the game really because every week the champions you get to play for free rotate, giving everyone a chance to play whichever they like and secondly, they are balanced so that it doesn't really matter which champions you play if you're skilled. You are really paying for a different experience.

So, the three models of free to play that I see are:

1. pay for perks - this is the traditional "you pay and you get something you can use", be it guns or coins or whatever. The danger with this model is that it is a very fine balance to prevent this from becoming pay to win.

2. pay for cosmetics - DotA 2 or skins in LoL or hats in TF2 or whatever you have. Buy things to change the look of your stuff in game, but buying things has no effect on your success or the gameplay. IMHO almost all free to play games should support this in some way.

3. pay for experience. The things you buy in game don't give you an advantage in the game but instead alter the play style or how you experience the gameplay. League of Legends gives you weekly tasters of the different gameplay experiences the different champions have to offer and you can pay to keep the ones you like best. I believe that this is the model (coupled with #2) that ultimately makes the very successful free to play games stand out from the merely moderately successful ones.
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At my internship last summer, several devs were partial to those super-clacky keyboards one can buy. I can't stand working without (or even with) headphones in places like cafes when loud conversations are going on around me, but I found the keyboard sounds very easy to tune out.
The problem with the quiet car is that offenders usually do not realize they are in it. Unless you travel on Amtrak frequently (I don't do it often but certainly more than the average person) you may not even realize a quiet car even exists. It isn't common to have a quiet section on an airplane or any other form of public transportation so I can see why people would not expect this.

Ignorance is no excuse for being loud repeatedly after this is pointed out but I almost always travel in the quiet car and have found that conductors only infrequently make announcements explaining that the car has special rules-perhaps 25% of the trips I've taken.

I cannot blame someone for missing the sign that says, "Quiet Car" but I can place some responsibility on Amtrak for not making the quiet car and the rules that go along with it more obvious.
Did anyone else notice the hidden text "#@$%&!" at the end of the last paragraph? Does this have some kind of meaning or purpose, I can't figure out why it would be there...

<p itemprop="articleBody">
We’re a tribe, we quiet ones, we readers and thinkers and letter writers, we daydreamers and gazers out of windows. We are a civil people, courteous to excess, who disdain displays of anger as childish and embarrassing. But the Quiet Car is our territory, the last reservation to which we’ve been driven. And we can be pushed too far. Our message to the barbarians who would barge in on our haven with their chatter and blatting gadgets like so many bulldozers is: <span style="color:#fff;"><em>#@$%&!</em></span> </p>
I've been very impressed with Meraki, so it's unfortunate to see them acquired by a mega-corp that will no doubt slowly assimilate them into the borg(despite their insistence on remaining independent). Hopefully the founders and talent go on to do bigger and better things. I highly doubt that will happen within cisco though.
> As I said, when many of "us" started, it wasn't yet the cool thing to do either. No, I don't understand what you are trying to say?

No, you clearly don't understand anything that anybody who doesn't share your experiences is trying to say about this subject. This isn't about "coolness".

This is about whether or not something even seems like it's a possibility for someone. When I wanted to be in software, growing up, I didn't question whether or not it was something that "someone like me" could do, because everyone I ever saw, in magazines or books or on TV, was already like me. When I told relatives and strangers alike what I wanted to be when I grew up, they didn't discourage me or tell me that "people like me" couldn't be programmers. They didn't tell me that programming was a job for the other gender and that I was being silly for wanting to violate norms; they were supportive and encouraging, because everybody they knew of in software was like me.

Women grow up today, in 2012, being steered away from software because it "isn't for girls". Black kids grow up today, in 2012, being told that software isn't for people like them. White boys are statistically bought their own computer much earlier than minorities or girls, because it's seen by people as a logical career to encourage them in, thereby perpetuating the structural disadvantages that gave rise to the white male programmer as "norm" in the first place.

And every damn time someone dares broach the subject and advocate for putting a more diverse public face on the field so that it might actually stop being such a toxic monoculture, the white male majority roles its eyes and complains that they haven't experienced any of the problems that minorities are experiencing in the field, that they wouldn't have even noticed that a speaker line-up at a major conference was all just like them.

Of course you wouldn't have noticed that. That's the privilege that comes with being in the majority.
I experienced the same thing in Chrome (Ubuntu). It didn't load.
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HTTP and HTTPS are served on different ports so using a single IP for both typically isn't an issue. The issue here is that HTTP allows you to host multiple sites from one IP address, whereas HTTPS can only deliver a single certificate per IP address. This requires 1 IP per SSLed hostname. SNI lets you send multiple certificates on one IP, but client support isn't good enough yet. Multi-name certificates work better but can be more expensive.
I respect that you guys have made a decision to keep the details out of the public sphere, but if I may, I'd like to ask this one question.

I believe it was stated that this all got started because some influential guy got crossed and is now pulling strings to make your life bad.

Now given that we're on HN I can't help wondering if this is in any way startup related; Are we talking some kind Startup vs Big Corp situation here?
If so I figure it might be of value and interest to the HN community to know at least this as an outline.

Should startups in India and elsewhere fear the same situation?
Works in Opera. ;)
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You know, Win 8 and OSX are both moving towards a merged mobile/desktop OS, while Ubuntu and Android are going to stay quite separate. I think it might actually work out to Ubuntu's benefit over time to just stick with the desktop.
This uses SNI (which as mentioned in the parent lacks support in certain popular old clients, most notably Windows XP)
Kim dotcom hasn't proposed investing. He has shown interest in being the biggest customer. The risk of investing in the cable is huge, there isn't a datacenter in NZ that can utilize the proposed bandwidth increase. This is essentially a chicken-or-the-egg situation where someone other than dotcom will be bearing the risk.

An article where the reporter actually spoke with DotCom: http://www.nbr.co.nz/opinion/dotcoms-cable-fact-or-fantasy-k...
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The election is over. Just saying.
For me I would try some more practice with Python and use your web experience to do a web app (possibly phone targeted) until you are comfortable with programming. I just think you will learn faster able to program and test in a tighter loop than you can with a write, compile, launch in phone/simulator process.

Whatever you do don't try to learn/use all the libraries on the platform in one go. Just pick what you need for your project.
Package discovery was annoying. With Ruby, gems, and bundler I can define my project gems and install them with 'bundle install'. Any machine I move to it does that. It's fantastic.

With node and npm you can do more or less the same thing.

Maybe with easy_install you can now, but I remember having to manually download packages and easy_install them. No package management, no easy discovery, no project dependency management.
Given that this discussion is about US immigration, it makes sense to discuss cases where capital needs to be raised(if comparing to OECD countries) or there is a significant advantage to relocating to US(if comparing to non-OECD countries).

One of the main premises is that innovation is stifled because employees in the position to innovate are chained to their jobs via the H1 visa in their prime years.
I had some houseguests visiting from The Netherlands last night. I have never encountered louder talkers, even when we visited a nearby historic church and there was a rehearsal going on. I got a kick out of it, because I'm a notorious loud talker and my friends always give me a hard time about it.
I agree that using it with existing frameworks is not that useful and probably a bad move.

I'm using it a bit with jQuery.

The real benefit I see are with some of the new ClojureScript libraries.

My feeling is that we wont see many ClojureScript frameworks as thats not really the Clojure way.

I'm struggling myself with finding the right way of using ClojureScript, but it's early days yet and whatever experimentation we do now will probably guide the way.

There are interesting patterns happening now though such as the use of atoms for data binding as is used in Reflex/C2

https://github.com/lynaghk/reflex
https://github.com/lynaghk/c2

I'm still looking for good ways of doing routing in single page apps.
+1

I personally ALWAYS put my jacket on top of my items when at the airport. As I go through security, I take off my belt, remove my wallet, cell phone and other devices from my pockets and put them in the trey to go through the x-ray machine. Then I put my jacket on top of them. Is it because I’m a terrorist? No. I just don’t want my wallet and cell phone being out in the open as they emerge from the x-ray machine. Like most people, I’m always a little nervous that if I get stuck at the metal detector, someone could grab my wallet and slip away with it. Hence, I don’t want it to be so plainly obvious.
Those kata examples (and the transformation rules expressed therein), like most of the kata I've seen, always feel limited. Take the prime number kata as an example. The implementation is only usable for small input values. Suppose one of the questions is the prime factors of 231-1. This is something which could be done by hand - in the 1770s, Euler worked out that it was prime - but it's not going to be something which the author's son would likely be assigned.

The author writes: "My premise is that if you choose the tests and implementations that employ transformations that are higher on the list, you will avoid the impasse."

What is the transformation technique which would take the existing prime solution and make it something which handles all integers in the range 1 to 231-1 in "reasonable" time?

Similarly, what is the set of transformations which converts the naive string searching algorithm - that being the one which most easily passes the simple unit tests at the start of a TDD project - and ends up with Boyer–Moore or Knuth–Morris–Pratt?

Or from the quadratic "grade school" algorithm for multiplying two large numbers to the Karatsuba algorithm?

I have a hard time believing that a simple set of transformations apply for all of those cases. I'm easily convinced; just show me the steps.

I do realize that most problems don't require anything more than non-trivial algorithm development. But it feels like TDD is at best a support method for testing complex algorithm development. If it cannot be used to design new algorithms, then what design techniques should people use instead?