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Could you elaborate on that a little? I have two Google accounts, both on different Apps domains, and I have no trouble using multilogin support with G+ on either.

To help debug:

1. Does multilogin support work at all for you? In other words, can you open both accounts' GMail in side-by-side tabs in the same browser? (The URL should contain something like "/a/something.com" or "/u/0" in each one.)

2. In the first of these tabs, if you click the +You link in the upper left corner, does it take you to G+?

3. Same as #2, but with the second tab
AMD the company is alive and well, but this is despite their CPU division, not because of it. For a sizeable part of the 2000's AMD was the price/performance leader in CPUs. Intel leveraged their position with OEM's to keep AMD out of many PCs during this period. The extent of the damage is debatable, but currently AMD's CPUs are quickly becoming relegated to the low-end, low-margin market. Without strong profits to fund R&D, AMD will likely stay there.

Ars Technica has a good writeup that sums up the whole affair here:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/01/intel-response-to-ft...

Note how much market share AMD has lost in the enthusiast market already:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/market_share.html
Hyperbole isn't the same thing as dishonesty or malice. If you believe a poster sincerely thinks white on yellow text is a crime against humanity in a world of child soldiers, oppressive regimes, systemic corruption and walled garden app ecosystems, then why would you consider their opinion relevant in the first place?
Or favorable coverage by anyone other than Fox News.
The jobs manufacturing iPhone/iPad/iPod aren't coming back, but I could see Apple bringing the manufacturing of computers (especially desktops) to the US.

For one, the computers have a higher BOM and price, so an increase in manufacturing costs takes a smaller share of the total profit. Plus they only make 5 million computers a quarter, compared to 41 million iPhones+iPads.

iDevices are released on an annual schedule, which means delays are extremely costly (especially if they are timed for the holidays). This requires a very tight supply chain. It isn't as big a deal if the iMac slips by a month.

Finally, the market for iDevices is extremely competitive compared to desktops. Execution matters way more for iDevices and a lot more money is on the line. It is easy to experiment with iMacs because there is much less pressure in that market segment.
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Fair enough. I'm lucky enough that English is my primary (and in terms of texting etc only) language.
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Definitely. I've got that same Katahdin and liked it so much I bought one for my daughter. It's got those little mesh/velcro pockets inside the pockets to keep your keys and such. A little warm for Dallas where I live, but when it's really cold I've loving it.
I had the good sense to check how things actually worked when I got home

Sounds like you fit both the criteria for "Smart and get things done".

I like programming with combinators -> They simply avoid the problem in the first place, so not knowing is irrelevant.

I think that a general awareness of the tools available to you is extremely useful. Specific knowledge isn't unless you're using them. Given that your friends "read about it today", I assume they don't often make use of this particular language feature - in which case it's fine not to know. In your case, not knowing was dangerous, and when you realised the limitations of your knowledge (unknown unknowns and all that), you corrected it.

My point is that I think all of this is covered in Joel's original essay, so your title isn't really justified.

Finally, I think there's a good essay to be written with a similar title, where you explore the point that "sometimes you need an expert". luu touches on this wrt hardware engineers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4882560
Incredible talk by Wilson Miner - When We Build [2011]
"Since there’s no retail middleman, everyone does better under the American Giant model—the clothing company, the factory workers, and you."

Everyone except the retail workers.
No autonomous vehicle made by the US has attack / strike capabilities yet. The J-UCAS / J-UCAV was proposed and demo vehicles were made, but they are not even close to operational. I would imagine the blackhawk will be a similar situation where it starts out as a transport vehicle for the foreseeable future.
Would it be easier to build one of these systems for a Commanche or an Osprey? I ask because I imagine that control systems are heavily utilized in these two helicopters, meaning that all the necessary feedback loops / transfer functions / frequency responses are already known. Thus, taking those systems a step further into controlling position may be more efficient than starting from pneumatic controls on a Black Hawk.
I see most people argue the fact that something can be of quality or that you technically can wear old clothes. My point was, current modern fashion empires (Zara, HM, etc.) are popular because they offer fashionable items often of random/poor quality (notice 'because' not 'despite'). Buy cheap, look good for the season, throw it away. One or two levels higher you got all the Tommy, Polo, Lacoste, etc. where you upgrade for the brand and better quality (I know it's still slave labor, but the quality is better). People buy clothes to look good, and buy the ones that look good in their affordable price range. It's how it works, and somehow I believe people wanting to buy a hoodie 'for lifetime' are a vast minority, especially in the hoodie target group. Yeah, I own a jacket which was cool 4 years ago, is cool now, and maybe will be still cool in the next 3 years if I don't destroy it, but durability is IMHO a weak selling point for an newborn apparel company who positions itself in the price range of the lower-end designer brand clothes.

I hope I clarified my opinion a bit, I'm not against quality, I just doubt it will work in the long run for the reasons above.
I think Beamer is great for things like lecture slides and other presentation where the aim is to pass on dense amounts of information. When using slides to illustrate rather than summarise, however, it requires a series of hacks to position, resize, add custom colours and images or fonts. It also gives you standard elements that you probably don't want in these illustrative slides, such as the slide number, author and subtitle on the footer of each slide.
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DC is better for very long distances and underwater connections:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
Jobs changed his minds on tablet sizes? I thought he went to his death thinking they nailed it with the original iPad size.
Wow, this is on top of the GOP silently kicking younger members out of budget committees earlier this week for not bowing enough to the party line[1]. The GOP has had opportunities lately to shed some of their hypocritical big-government stances; their growing younger libertarian-ish/anti-special-interests wing (Rand Paul, Justin Amash, etc) is in my view their best hope for long-term survival, but the establishment seems to be denying that as much as possible.

[1] http://blog.heritage.org/2012/12/04/huelskamp-amash-say-hous...
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I think all of this is (actually|also) covered in another of Joel's essays, "Lord Palmerston on Programming:" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LordPalmerston.html
At 3.7% unemployment you have a huge amount of bargaining power.

Yes. People just don't realise it.
According to the article he was convicted of "felony petty theft."

> Williams, who testified in his own defense during his trial,
> testified that some of the children nodded their heads "yes"
> when he asked them for a slice of pizza and that he thanked
> them for it.

> But a 13-year-old boy in the group testified: "I was scared."

Sounds like implicit intimidation. I think that if there were claims that he threatened violence, it would have been quoted in the article.

> While petty theft is typically a misdemeanor charge, Williams'
> earlier convictions allowed prosecutors to upgrade it to a
> felony.

They used his earlier convictions to upgrade a misdemeanor to a felony, then claim "3 felony convictions" == "life sentence".
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The problem is that the GOP doesn't truly support any of that stuff-- simply listening to what a wealthy few campaign donors tell you is right and blindly proselytizing this warped view until you have nearly 50% of the vote is a much easier platform.
I know, it's crazy, better quality things costs more.
I second that. Had a glance over the blog post, answered a few glaring questions. Still sounds pretty crazy tho
or, you can only be a ruby core member if you can speak japanese.
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Steve Yegge wrote a great piece on the subject:

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ca/2008/06/done-and-gets-things-...
Thanks. I just wonder whether this fairly nuanced convention is or will actually be adhered to by library authors.
The original source explains why the meetings were called “green meetings” and quotes from uncovered documents about the price-fixing:

http://gigaom.com/europe/samsung-lg-and-others-hit-with-reco...
Did they really have any opportunity here? Silicon Valley also (reasonably!) requires support for gay marriage, believes in and fears anthropogenic global warming, is basically pro-choice, and has dovish foreign policy beliefs. Demographically, Silicon Valley is largely college educated and is more ethnically diverse than suburban America.

I know hearing this upsets HN, and lots of smart people think I'm completely batshit when I say this, but copyright reform is a fringe issue. There are probably more people who vote for the gold standard, or to ban mosques.
Might work for an individual with specific talents, might not.

As I say, the market is not in a depressed state at the moment, it's not the case that it's a ridiculously low offer that's what UK software jobs pay.

Software engineers are just not paid rockstar wages in the UK. So they will find people to fill many of the roles. Software salaries are still good compared to average wages, so people will go into it, and work for better-than-average-but-not-awesome money.
The system might have been designed to be flexible about that in order to work with some other use cases, but the app team made sure that the process works through their manual intervention. On top of that, they seem to offer a reasonable amount of support to help him become compliant with the submission process.
Your right, and I think where this will end up is with 'super aware' pilots. Where the plane does just about everything automatically, but there's a human inside that basically 'thinks' and the vehicle does. Our brains are already better at strategy than the most advanced computers, it makes sense that the vehicle takes care of the easy stuff (like not hitting walls and landing) and the human focuses on the enemy.
The original design looks a lot like a Gantt chart, did Bret Victor "steal" that idea? Is there any indication that the folks at Hipmunk saw Victor's design in the first place? It's not like Bret Victor was the first person to put time on an x-axis and different options/items on the y-axis.

Seems like a bit of a stretch to accuse Hipmunk of stealing unless I'm missing something.
Of course you need to start networking, your network is the number one thing that will help you pursue your career and open doors to places you want to be. The question is not if, it is how. I suggest you go to local meetups (perhaps hackathons or usergroups, for example here in Sweden we have SHRUG, Stockholm Ruby User Group) and meet other hackers, people that are passionate about programming. Talk to them, get to know them and hit them up on LinkedIn and Twitter afterwards. Remember to keep in touch, a good way is over lunch if your work locations are nearby.
Networking and keeping ones network alive is hard and requires effort, but it will pay in the long run.
Avrum from FreshBooks here (one of the authors of the post).

After login, the 'Create Account' and 'Login' buttons are replaced with two links: 'Email me a link to Reports' and 'View Reports in Safari'.

The primary call-to-action is the email because we recognize that the viewing experience for a traditional accounting report is still best on a computer (we actually say that in the copy). That said, if you need access immediately we provide it in a webview that shows the same content as the webapp (as you guessed).

Performance is fine on these pages but ultimately not as good native.
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I think they will be making product chasis and frames in the USA. Think about it.. If suddenly there was another uprising at some contractor in China they would not be making Apple products, they would be making commodity parts like motherboards and memory that are simply components. People would identify their Mac mini or iMac as being made in the USA and some parts from China in it.

Also there probably is not much savings going on by making these parts in China. The expensive part would be if you were making your own motherboards and chips in the USA. Apple does not need to do it, and gets good PR in the process.
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You mean wrap them in <a href>?
I think everyone deserves the very best. Why don't you think so? And how did 20-somethings come up?

Personally, I'd rather pay $80 for a hoodie that lasts 10 years than $8 for 1 hoodie a year. Less waste, less exploitative labor, shorter shipping distances (not riding a cargo ship from a Chinese/Taiwanese/etc factory), and a better looking and feeling garment.
NeXT was know for robotic plants also http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/... http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/24/business/all-next-inc-s-pl...
It seems as if the fines here are so minuscule to the profits that they probably got from the price fixing. I bet they could just put that number on the books similar to loss prevention and call it a day...
I'm okay with this. I'm not sure I want a party of bigots to lead the charge on copyright reform. It would put me in an awkward position. Firing the only intelligent person in the party seems to solidify this.
While I'm no expert on the matter that sounds like an awfully rose-coloured view of the life of a typical "primordial tribesman".
Thanks for the link Ryan.

I resonate with the post a lot. Recently moved to the bay area, after spending undergraduate years in chicago, working in nyc, hong kong, beijing, I feel that where we live determines a lot of how we live our lives, and people we associate with.

I disagree with the comments here that the author is suggesting that happiness is a goal. He's merely, in my view, presenting the fact that we should strive to make difficult decisions on our lives before it's too late. Choosing where we live is one of the most difficult things to change, however, all changes can start small.

Two years ago I took a sabbatical from my finance job, and never went back. It was a zig zag path to where I am now, but I would say the inconvenience and uncomfortable situations are worth it. So many people tell themselves, I'll stay in this job / city / relationship for one more year, till I get more experience / savings etc. Making difficult decisions (instead of putting them off) forces us to clarify our values. We might decide in the end to never leave the city, or the job, but we are happier because we decide consciously to, not because we dont' have a choice.
It seems to me the author is such a proponent of TDD that the idea of not using it is laughable.

The humor is so dry that it almost seems like a serious article. I got a few laughs though.
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Almost an hour and still no references to SkyNet. Am I just that old? :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator)
If he were nuts, he would have told the court the same things he told the reporter and with the same conviction. He didn't, so he's sane but unreliable.
Ohms law: V = IR

Power: P = VI

Power loss due to resistive heating in the wires: P = I^2 * R

Note that current (I) quickly dominates the loss calculation because it is squared. So for transmission lines, efficiency is obtained by keeping the current as low as possible. Therefore, to transfer the same power you need to make the voltage as high as possible.

The I^2*R heating loss applies equally to DC and AC transmission lines. So the DC lines still need to be high voltage for efficiency as well.

By using AC we can 'transform' high-voltage-low-current to low-voltage-high-current power very easily. It's literally just two coils of wire around a chunk of iron. Step-down AC transformers are used both at your neighborhood substation and on the pole outside your house.

But the article didn't say how they planned to transform the high-voltage-low-current DC into anything usable.
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While a nice feature for games, in particular, can this be disabled in Firefox? It seems it would affect battery life.
I think it was a dry satirical humour piece.
People said that about their t-shirts too. I think they're over $20? I bought one anyway and it's my favorite shirt. It's just a thick, soft material that's great to wear. Of course, I promptly bought a second one after that success, in the same size, and it was so big I was swimming in it.
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Here's the line that probably got him the axe: "Today's legal regime is seen by many as a form of corporate welfare"

Drawing attention to the existence of "corporate welfare" does not go over well in the GOP.

And I was so proud of them for making a sensible stand on this issue!
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Well I'd say this issue was an example of where the GOP could burnish their free market ideals on an issue that people outside of their normal demographic care about.

Clearly the GOP is doing some soul searching and this one issue wasn't going to make a gigantic impact, but it could have been one piece of a bigger strategy. As they (potentially) move away from traditionally social conservative issues and start focusing more and more on personal liberty and the free market, this could have been a good contrast to Democrats as part of a broader picture.
It's not really prohibitive. I currently have 6 hoodies with logos on them that were over $50. Most of them are snowboard companies, 2 are colleges. I've probably owned another half dozen similar ones in the past.

I enjoy wearing them for reasons that have nothing to with function. Does it keep me any warmer than one you get at Walmart? Of course not.

There are certainly people that will pay $80 to make a statement that they wear 'the best possible' clothing.
Gigawatt-hour storage does exist but it is limited in capacity.

Dinorwig can store ~11GWh and can provide that at 1.8GW (going from 0W to 1.8GW in under 2 minutes) and is ~75% efficient as a store, but it's only got a 6 hour capacity due to the limited size of the upper reservoir.

Something similar built at Itaipu or Three Gorges scale could provide some more serious capacity.
You think Apple prices are high now? Oh man, just wait and then the world will see just how absolutely spoiled we are by the dearth of humane labor laws in Asian countries.
On the other hand, it could have been a way for the GOP to segue from the "bigot party" into a group with reasonable beliefs. Parties change over time, and this could have been a good first step in the right direction.
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My point is that even assholes can have valid insights (and aren't shy of expressing them).
NO!

Sorry, let me rephrase that: FUCK NO!

What Java needs is for all the fucking logging separatists to grow the fuck up and accept that for the greater good we need a single solution for this -- and for Oracle to grow a brain, and to give Java a proper logging API and a good default implementation so we can stop wasting more energy on all the fucking logging frameworks for Java that do not work.

Anyone not working towards giving J2SE a good logging API and at least one good implementation that can be distributed with the JDK can go to hell.
somehow I doubt that
I don't find $80 exactly expensive and I'm sure that's a nice product. Yet, it's amazing how prone to simple manipulation people are. You see, that's just a hoodie.

Example:

"He also used heavy-gauge thread for all the seams, creating connections that won’t fray."

First, who doesn't? Second, heavy-gauge threads are not more or less expensive than regular, this isn't thread count.
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Which is why (IMHO) privacy must trump non-personal information monopolies: because we simply can't have both. The right to pursue a living is meaningless without the right to live.

The all-or-nothing nature of communication, as you note, is palpable and it is pressing us to preserve those monopolies and give up our rights to privacy and physical safety in order to go on doing business as usual. However well-intentioned, copyright and other "disembodied" (state-owned, or corporate-owned, etc) idea-monopolies have become arguments against privacy and basic physical rights...

So, what will it be: today's copyright (or national security, and so on), or tomorrow's freedom-of-thought? Do you prefer group-rights or individual rights? If groups, the information flows too fast to permit independent though. If you prefer individuality, the speed of communication is obviating the need for groups and corporations and proxy-voting and governments that like to do things for us.

There's still a way to go mind you, but I bet this is what a fetus feels like when it's cells are multiplying and eventually one mind emerges (or things don't cooperate, and one doesn't), all while the autonomic systems emerge enslaved to their rhythms, all the way down to the cells that are just trying to take the bus back to the lungs for a little fresh air on their breaks...

Wait, what was I saying? Oh yeah, so who's ready for the hive-mind?
I enjoy that type of work now and I'm working on an MVP as a solo dev at the moment. It was just an off-putting experience at the time.

It was the first time I was expected to write code that actually did something besides get me a grade on a homework assignment.
I was about to ask if it was satire. Guess it was wasted on me!
Link to memo:
http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/rsc_policy_brief_--...
The browser should offer some kind of permission system (like with the GPS sensor) that would ask the user if a website has permissions to access the vibrate API.
Is this the future of "made in america" - only products targeted to the well-off will be attempted like $80 sweatshirts and overpriced apple computers?

I thought the high cost of fuel was supposed to bring manufacturing back here because of shipping costs, but apparently all it's done is bring record profits for fuel companies to export fuel from america.
I would like to point out that software comes in different flavors of complexity, for example kernel programming that requires the extensive experience you speak off.

I think it's more about the technical difficulty of the project you undertake rather than its form (software or hardware).

Many startups are technically very simple.
This is the Ron Paul demographic and it has shown consistently that it's nowhere near being popular enough for national elections. The simple fact is, having an effective and well-funded government which takes on particular problems that don't respond well to free markets (health care, energy reform, infrastructure, social safety net) is seen by most non-ideological people as a good thing.
I like Kim's version of freedom, personally.